Edgar Julius Jung (March 6, 1894 – July 1, 1934) was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Jung was a Calvinist lawyer and leader of the Conservative Revolutionary movement, which stood not only in opposition to what he perceived as the decadent foreign-imposed Weimar Republic, with its liberal parliamentarian system, but also to the mass movement of Nazism.

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 his political 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 the Soviet Union or a Brown Revolution of the Nazis coming to life. By 1923, Germany had already witnessed the ascent of a short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic and a failed Beer Hall Putsch to thrust the Nazis into power.

In 1934, Jung was the author of a speech delivered by Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen in Marburg which articulated the conservative establishment's criticism of the violence of National Socialism. Jung was arrested during Hitler's blood purge, and was murdered while in custody at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin on July 1.

See also

• Herbert von Bose
• Erich Klausener
• Franz von Papen
• Night of the Long Knives

External reference

• Biography of Edgar Julius Jung

1894 births | 1934 deaths | German politicians | Roman Catholic politicians | Nazi Germany | Victims of The Night of the Long Knives

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