Overview

• He admitted in a Funke-Mediengruppe podcast that passages in his 2018 “Das konservative Manifest” were ambiguous and pledged to rewrite them with clearer wording.
• Weimer explained the disputed sections paraphrase cultural historian Oswald Spengler’s theses and stressed that those ideas do not reflect his own views.
• He affirmed that he is far removed from any form of völkisch thinking and rejects extremist readings of his work.
• Weimer described himself as a declared value conservative who remains liberal on most pressing political issues.
• His nomination as culture minister by CDU leader Friedrich Merz in early May has sparked ongoing scrutiny of his ideological positioning and the politicization of Germany’s cultural institutions.