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2/25/2012

Please leave a comment to let me know you were here. If you have any kind of Germanic blood in you, and roughly 17% of the US is specifically German, this is the place you need to be!

41 Comments

Karen Carlson

3/6/2012 13:43:07

Glad to see the new site up and running, and that you are using Hjuka's work!

Carroll Reimer

10/28/2014 12:18:21

(smiling)

Shawn Young

12/14/2015 19:56:44

Very glad to have found this site!

dwayne n.oxner

11/22/2013 07:43:35

I like this website I found it very informative.thought it was pretty kool.keep the faith

Vaygar Ingwald Emlersson

11/23/2013 09:59:57

Thank you for your kind words. Will do!

Andrew Stutts

10/26/2014 14:22:09

Thanks for keeping this work and site going.

Carroll Reimer

10/28/2014 12:19:16

Youbetchaz!

Leslie

11/12/2014 04:57:13

I was so thrilled to find this website; this is exactly what I've been looking for. I have somewhat of an involvement in Heathenry and Northern Tradition Shamanism, but those faiths have never felt quite right to me. And it turns out they're based almost 100 percent on Scandinavian spirituality and customs, so no wonder. My ancestry is German and English, and the German blood is what I connect with the most. Now that I've found this website, I've shared it with friends and I'm looking forward to learning more. Thanks so much for making this available. Also, I've noticed with many of the Norse pagans that it's like they want to bring back the entire lifestyle of the Viking and pre-Viking days. If a faith does not fit in with the current evolvement of a culture, then it's no true faith at all. Being a Germanic pagan should not mean running around with a long beard and wearing a horned helmet, living in a hut with no plumbing or electricity!

Carroll E.H. Reimer link

11/22/2014 05:01:35

I finally got my computer up and running again. I was excited to read your very kind words. Thank you so much!

Arthur Moore

11/23/2014 03:21:34

I am a Dutchman, so technically a Germaan. I was raised like most in a 'Christian household' (i put it in quotes since it seemed to be Christian in name only) yet I always felt like it was alien to me. I've also always been drawn (compulsively) to the history of my ancestors and it was in that interest that I got a glimpse of the beliefs of old. But like most, if you want to know more, you might catch a glimpse through Tacitus, and the rest is Scandinavian. But then I came across Irminenschaft. It interest me because it seemed to talk about MY ancestors beliefs, and once I read about it, it just felt familiar, and right. This site is so interesting and I simply cannot get enough of it. I know it wasn't the aim of this site, but thank you for bringing one Dutchman home.

Caroll Reimer link

7/24/2015 06:32:09

EXCELLENT! Thank you!

Jeff Randolph

7/22/2015 11:43:25

As a newcomer just finding my spiritual roots in our ancient and true religion I found your website VERY useful. Great job. Please keep up the excellent work.

Carroll Reimer link

7/24/2015 06:31:01

Thanks for your kind words. ALways glad to be of service.

J. Kyser

10/22/2016 11:46:19

I've been enjoying your site while searching for my past, present and potential future. I have so much to learn and a lot of reading to do.

Caroll D. Reimer

10/25/2016 16:52:32

Thanks for the contact. By all means...KEEP READING!

Stephen

7/5/2017 18:38:28

This site was a pleasant surprise to me, and I'm glad it exists. Irminenschaft has been a great resource to me on my heathen path as I have a lot of English and German in me and can trace my lineage to Saxon times. I'm glad you're in charge of the site Cal. I'll definitely keep up with it.

Carroll D Reimer link

10/25/2020 10:17:37

EXCELLENT!

ljubo

11/30/2017 09:38:31

Hello! Your site is full of good things, some of them truly unique, and I thank you for it, BUT I don't understand how come did you make Karl Maria Willigut part of the Armanen calendar - as if he wasn't the one that had some of us arrested and tortured!?
His Halgarita charms are full of semitic elements of the most demonic sort, i.e. baal, belial...
Throw him out or this is no Irminschaft but dispersion of force.
We lost the war because of the likes of KMW (Weisthor).
Alaf Sal Fena!

1/11/2018 17:38:11

Hello - glad to have found this site.

Caroll D Reimer link

6/4/2018 11:36:15

Glad to have you.

LJUBO DIVLJAK

5/31/2018 20:26:32

Heilsa! I apologize for my comment on Wiligut, after contemplating the subject for a long time, I am now able to say that I overreacted; consequently I wrote things that I didn't understand enough. Even at this point, I don't really understand them, but I hope that in time the gods will deign me worthy of knowing. Heil the Runes! Heil Wotanaz!

Caroll D Reimer link

6/4/2018 11:35:17

Tis okay. Be well.

LJUBO DIVLJAK

6/4/2018 13:02:28

Danke!

Robert S. Akers

7/28/2018 23:02:05

Germanic on both Paternal and Fraternal sides

Caroll D Reimer

7/29/2018 10:16:52

Outstanding!

LMK

8/2/2018 15:10:03

I didn't realize anything like this was still going. We are relatively new to the US- I'm only 5th gen- from Bavaria. Mom's side has some very interesting Saxon families in it too so I will never want for things to research and better my heathen practice!

Caroll D Reimer

8/11/2018 18:52:10

THANK YOU!

Dustin Blackston

2/3/2019 20:16:02

Heilsa! I'm originally from the Wichita area but have been out of state for about seven years. I've participated with various Odinist kindreds. I've recently returned to Wichita and am interested in meeting with like-minded individuals.

Caroll D Reimer

2/4/2019 12:27:07

Please contact me @ creimer4@cox.net.

Sean Jobst

3/12/2019 21:46:52

Hallo Bruder Caroll! I came across Irminism recently while researching the esoteric meanings and functions of the Irminsul, and from that came across this excellent website. You are providing an essential service by keeping this work available and updating it, not to mention giving a living communal aspect to it.

My late father was originally from Germany (Bad Cannstatt) but immigrated to America, so I've always had a direct connection to the Fatherland. However, only within the last few years have I been drawn to our Heathen folkways - realizing the spiritual implications of belonging to a certain Folk after taking a life-changing visit back to Germany - and especially within the last year when I've finally taken the decision to take it from solely a scholarly interest and belief, into fully practicing and living it (since I don't do anything half-heartedly but have to fully be aligned with it).

My German roots are from the deepest Sudwest, the noble lands of my Suebi and Alemanni ancestors. They are only two generations removed from their farmland in the Ostalbkreis. Although followed under a Catholic veneer, their traditions are easily traceable (as with all regions of our Germanen folk) back to pre-Christian, indigenous Germanic traditions.

So needless to say, I have been repelled by the Norse/Scandinavian focus of Asatru which simply does not and cannot fully resonate directly with me and my own Alpine Germanic traditions. Its good for those from those backgrounds (or perhaps of English heritage), but we of Continental Germanic heritage - and specifically the most Southern tribes - need our Path.

Irminism and the Irminenschaft seem to fill that void. I also like the Volkisch effort because, while firmly rejecting Universalism and instinctively knowing each Ethnic Group has their own innate faith, nor do I agree with those Asatruar currents that think Germanic Heathenry is for all European-descended people, even those with little or no Germanic heritage.

I am also part-Celtic through my Iberian side (which came to Schwaben and intermarried with my Swabian German side) and no doubt also my maternal Flemish side (the Belgae being a historic amalgamation of Celtic and Germanic). But me being majority Germanic and having the most direct connection to Deutschland, this is what resonates the most with me! I can imagine if I was majority non-Germanic, I would follow another Path like the Celtic etc.. So the specific German-focus of the Irminenschaft is definitely the way to go for we who hear that call of our Continental ancestors.

I am continuing to soak in all the information and studying, and I also look forward to eventually meeting real life Irminists and truly being part of an actual community (despite me being geographically far from the Midwest, so outside our majority German-American lands). Definitely corresponding and networking with others, exchanging ideas and learning/growing. Danke Schon!

Caroll EH Reimer link

7/4/2019 15:21:30

FUCK WOW!!!!! Excellent!

Anette

10/23/2020 14:57:42

Vielen Dank, sehr interesant .. I am native German, well, per latest gene testing .. 50% German, 25% Scandinavian, 15% Russian, 5%Italian, 5%Irish... born and raised in Germany, married an American and moved to the States in 1995. Being Wiccan for over 30 years, I feel a calling and now I am exploring this Irminism, I honestly never have heard of. Must be because I was raised catholic. Thank you for all this great information, any book recommendations by any chance? bitte und danke :)

Carroll D Reimer link

10/25/2020 10:28:40

Steve Anthonijsz was the president of our Irminenschaft organization:
http://irminengesellschaft.blogspot.com/2011/07/irminenschaft-not-related-to-wotanism.html

Anette

10/26/2020 16:01:04

Vielen Dank :)

Carroll D Reimer link

10/25/2020 10:22:44

First and foremost, if you haven't read Coulter's book, Germanic Heathenry, A Practical Guide you should. It's no longer available in print, but it IS available in PDF: https://coreyemmah.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/1/8/22181700/coulter_-_germanic_heathenry.pdf It's the book that changed my life! ,

Anette

10/26/2020 15:59:10

Thank you so much :)

Carroll D Reimer link

10/25/2020 10:31:05

Here is Steve's blog in its entirety:
http://irminengesellschaft.blogspot.com/

Anette

10/26/2020 16:05:15

Thank you again for all your responds, I will have to do some reading. Next would be to find a like minded tribe. I still cook plenty of German food.

Donny

5/15/2022 21:18:26

If you have contact with James, let him know I have been looking for him. FKA Bjarki Valgardsson, he'll know who I am.

Caroll D Reimer link

5/19/2022 18:36:12

No one knows.

Donny

5/20/2022 02:23:04

I am a tenacious bastard, thank you.

I am happy to see his dream become real, and understand his break from public.

If you need anything, holler.

D

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