# Nietzsche writes and circulates public hostility to his sister’s antisemitic politics

Date: 1887

## The fact

In the mid-1880s, and sharply around Elisabeth’s 1885 marriage to Bernhard Förster, Nietzsche wrote letters and remarks denouncing antisemitic politics.

It is one event.

## Context

He could write blond-beast pages and still refuse Förster’s party. Both are his. Do not let the sister’s later Archiv speak for him.

[Friedrich Nietzsche](/people/friedrich-nietzsche)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Stanford and Nietzsche Source’s correspondence independently document his break with the Förster antisemitic project.

Official or archival record: Nietzsche Source — Digital Critical Edition (eKGWB) (https://doc.nietzschesource.org/en/ekgwb; Nietzsche Source / Paolo D’Iorio).

## Significance

Written refusal of antisemitic politics is a minority-rights path, against later capture of the name.

A letter is not a 1901 compilation.

Written refusal of antisemitic politics is a minority-rights path, against later capture of the name.

## What is established and what is not

Established: documented anti-antisemitic letters and remarks in the 1880s. Not established: that they stopped 1930s honour at the Archiv.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Friedrich Nietzsche.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

## People

- Friedrich Nietzsche: https://factrail.ai/people/friedrich-nietzsche

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
- https://doc.nietzschesource.org/en/ekgwb

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-anti-antisemitism-1887