# Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche issues The Will to Power as if it were his systematic book

Date: 1901

## The fact

In 1901 the Nietzsche-Archiv issued Der Wille zur Macht, a constructed ‘main work’ from fragments.

It is one event.

## Context

He wrote notebooks. She and her helpers arranged a system that served later politics. This is her fact with his name on the spine.

[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.

The 1901 Wille zur Macht is her compilation from notebooks. He did not prepare that book. Store as later archive manipulation under his heading, not as his treatise.
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

Klassik Stiftung’s Archiv history and Stanford independently treat Will to Power as a posthumous compilation, not his designed book.

Official or archival record: Klassik Stiftung Weimar — Nietzsche-Archiv (https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/nietzsche-archiv/; Klassik Stiftung Weimar).

## Significance

A false main-work is an institutional-opacity path: authority sits in a sister’s heading.

Notebooks remain notebooks. Colli-Montinari later undid the fake spine.

A false main-work is an institutional-opacity path: authority sits in a sister’s heading.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1901 public Will to Power from the Archiv. Not established: that he numbered that book as his summa.

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.

They are not a public rating.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/nietzsche-archiv/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-will-to-power-1901