Ernst Haeckel

In 1867 the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined the term ‘ecology’ and began to establish it as a scientific discipline dedicated to studying the interactions between organism and environment.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.

The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures (Kunstformen der Natur, "Art Forms of Nature"). As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote 'Die Welträtsel' (1895–1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901), the genesis for the term "world riddle" (Welträtsel); and 'Freedom in Science and Teaching' to support teaching evolution.

Haeckel developed a philosophy he called ‘monism.’

The 'German Monist League' he founded combined scientifically based ecological holism with völkisch social views.

Haeckel believed in nordic racial superiority, strenuously opposed race mixing and enthusiastically supported racial eugenics.

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His nationalism became more fervent with the onset of World War I, and he fulminated in anti-semitic tones against the post-war Jewish/Soviet Republic in Bavaria.

In this way Haeckel contributed to that special variety of German thought which served as the seed bed for National Socialism.

The pioneer of scientific ecology, along with his disciples Willibald Hentschel, Wilhelm Bölsche and Bruno Wille, profoundly shaped the thinking of subsequent generations of environmentalists by embedding concern for the natural world in a tightly woven web of Völkisch social themes.

Thus, for the Monists, perhaps the most pernicious feature of European bourgeois civilization was the inflated importance which it attached to the idea of man in general, to his existence and to his talents.

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Greenline Front is the movement of national - conscious people, who reject the system of modern anthropocentric values and it's procreations, such as capitalism and monotheistic religions. We think, that ecological crisis and mass annihilation of animals - the direct effect of anthropocentric views. We see the alternative in ecological way of thinking, that means comprehension of the fact Earth's being not just a lifeless piece of stone, but the Mother of every creature alive, mother of humanity, as well. The endless chasing of material profit, excess consumption of resources, careless way of thinking about how human's activities affect on the Nature - this is what we call unacceptable. We fight for freedom for every animal, enslaved by people, because we think, that Nature's interests must prevail over human's. Greenline Front is not a political organization or party, we have no leader and official membership.