Die deutschen Stämme

I. Introduction II. What are the German tribes? III The origin and history of the German tribes The old German tribes The old German tribes in the Middle Ages The second (High German) phonetic shift The dissolution of the tribal duchies and the continued existence of the tribes The German settlement in the East The new East German tribes New urban tribes IV. The scientific and intellectual history of the German tribes Historical overview The tribes in literary studies The tribes in art history August Grisebach The tribes and folk culture (saga and folk song) Tribe and dialect Willy Hellpach V. Anthropological and psychological differences between the German tribes Are there anthropological differences between the German tribes? Are there psychological tribal differences? Lower Saxon and East Prussian temperament Behavioural types among Lower Saxons and Bavarians Temperamental differences between the Lower Rhine and Thuringia Giftedness differences in Bavaria The aggressiveness of the Bavarians and Francs The Swabian tendency to melancholy The giftedness of the Vorarlbergers Giftedness differences in North Tyrol VI. The tribes and the psychological organisation of the German language area The Lower Saxon and Frisian tribal area Mecklenburg, Pomerania and Brandenburg The Franconian tribal area The Hessians The Saxon-Thuringian tribal area The Silesians The Swabian-Alemannic tribal area The Bavarian-Austrian tribal area The ethnic Germans VII. How old are the tribal characters? VIII. The causes of tribal characters The general causes of tribal characters Cultural and psychological assimilation through imitation Genetic selection The origin of the individual tribal characters The Low Germans The Francs The Alemanni/Swabians The Bavarians The North-East Germans The East-Central Germans The Austrians The ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe IX. The tribal characters and the German ethnic character Comparison of German and non-German regional characters Comparison of the German and non-German populations in Switzerland The similarities of the German-speaking countries The similarities of East and West Germans 1990 X. Summary Literature.