- Edgar Julius Jung
Edgar Julius Jung (
March 6 ,1894 –July 1 ,1934 ) was a Germanlawyer fromLudwigshafen , inRhineland-Palatinate ,Germany . He was a leader of theConservative Revolutionary movement , which stood not only in opposition to theWeimar Republic , whose parliamentarian system he considered decadent and foreign-imposed, but also to the mass movement ofNazism .At the onset of
World War I , Jung voluntarily joined the imperial armies and acquired the rank of lieutenant. In 1925, Jung opened a law firm in Munich and dampened hispolitical activism slightly.Jung, like
Carl Schmitt , believed the breakdown of liberal parliamentarism to be inevitable as the instability of Weimar Germany was unfolding before his eyes. Jung had envisaged that Weimar Germany was tediously on the brink of revolutionary turmoil with the very real prospect of Red Revolution sponsored by theSoviet Union or a Brown Revolution of the Nazis coming to life.In 1934, Jung authored a speech delivered on
June 17 by Vice ChancellorFranz von Papen at theUniversity of Marburg which articulated the conservative establishment's criticism of the violence of National Socialism. Jung was arrested duringHitler 's blood purge, and was murdered by the SS. His body was found dumped near the town of Oranienburg near Berlin onJuly 1 .ee also
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Herbert von Bose
*Erich Klausener
*Franz von Papen
*Night of the Long Knives External references
* Larry Eugene Jones, "Edgar Julius Jung: The Conservative Revolution in Theory and Practice," "Central European History" 21 (1988), pp. 142-174.
* [http://thescorp.multics.org/19jung.html The Neo-Conservative Reich of Edgar Julius Jung] byAlexander Jacob in "The Scorpion".
* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/JungEdgar/index.html Biography of Edgar Julius Jung] from theGermany History Museum 's site de icon
* [http://www.monarchieliga.de/person/jung/bibliografie.htm Biography of Edgar Julius Jung] de icon
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