Ensiklopedia Dunia

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

Überfremdung - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Überfremdung" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (February 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the German article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,080 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Überfremdung]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Überfremdung}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Überfremdung (pronounced [ˌyːbɐˈfʁɛmdʊŋ] ^ⓘ), literally 'over-foreignization', is a German-language term used to refer to an excess of immigration. The word is a nominalization compounded from über meaning 'over' or 'overly' and fremd meaning 'foreign'. In that alienation also translates to "Entfremdung", there exists at least one other political dimension to this term as well though.

Political usage

The German term has had several meanings over the years, all of which have reflected the sense of "too foreign" and "threatening", and are generally negative.

Successive editions of the Duden dictionary illustrate how the meaning has changed since the term was first used in 1929, then meaning "taking on too much foreign money" (especially loans made from 1924–1929 to rebuild Germany, following the First World War). In 1934 (one year after the NSDAP came to power in Germany), the meaning changed to "immigration/imposition of foreign races", and in 1941 it became "immigration/imposition of foreign peoples". Following the Second World War, the 1951/1952 version of the Duden returned to the strictly economic definition. In 1961, the term foreigner came to replace foreign races or foreign peoples. In 1986, the term was no longer used in economics. Since 1991, primarily the verb überfremden has been in use, and one could speak of a country being überfremdet (German for 'over-foreignized').

In 1993, the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (German for 'Society for the German Language') declared Überfremdung to be the Unwort des Jahres (German for 'Un-Word of the Year'), as it makes "undifferentiated xenophobia" sound more argumentative and clinical.^[1]

Linguists, philologists, political scientists and social scientists criticise the concept for its vagueness, its use under national socialism, and its continuing negative connotation.

The word is related to terms in various languages: foreign infiltration, foreign penetration, French surpopulation étrangère [fr], déculturation [fr], envahissement par des étrangers [fr], Spanish extranjerización [es], Italian infiltrazione straniera [it], and הסתננות מאפריקה לישראל [he] (Hebrew for 'infiltration from Africa to Israel'), which have all been used at various times to rally xenophobic sentiment.

References

^ Ein Jahr, ein (Un-)Wort! on Spiegel Online (in German).

Far-right politics in Germany (1945–present)

Political parties
and groups

Defunct

People

German law

Lists

Far-right publishers
Far-right periodicals
- Compact
- Nation Europa
- National-Zeitung
- Zuerst!

v t e Far-right politics in Switzerland
Defunct far right organizations	Eidgenössische Sammlung National Front National Movement of Switzerland Swiss Patriotic Federation Union Nationale Swiss Nationalist Party Volkspartei der Schweiz
Active far right organizations	Freedom Party Swiss Democrats
Historical far right people	Gaston-Armand Amaudruz (d. 2018) Eugen Bircher (d. 1956) Franz Burri (d. 1987) Arthur Fonjallaz (d. 1944) François Genoud (d. 1996) Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1936) Rolf Henne (d. 1966) Ahmed Huber (d. 2008) Ernst Leonhardt (d. 1945) Hans Oehler (d. 1967) Georges Oltramare (d. 1960) Jakob Schaffner (d. 1944) James Schwarzenbach (d. 1994) Emil Sonderegger (d. 1934) Robert Tobler (d. 1962)
Living far right people	Bernhard Schaub Eric Weber
Related topics	AUNS Berne Trial New European Order Überfremdung

Categories:

Hidden categories:

Authority control databases
National	Germany
Other	Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

Political usage

See also

References