[1] In order to support his beliefs he set up the Deutscher Volksverein (German People's League) in 1881 with Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg.

[2] In 1883, Förster left Germany in order to emigrate to Paraguay, when his anti-Semitic beliefs resulted in ostracism and loss of his teaching job.

The couple assembled a group of 'pioneers' who shared their anti-Semitic views and wished to live in a new 'Fatherland' where an Aryan could prosper.

[4] He eventually committed suicide by poisoning himself with morphine and strychnine in his room at the Hotel del Lago in San Bernardino, Paraguay, on 3 June 1889.

[5] After his death, his widow Elisabeth wrote a book entitled Bernhard Förster's Colony New Germany in Paraguay.