Edgar Julius Jung
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Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was born on March 6, 1894 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Jung was a Calvinist lawyer and leader of the right-wing 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 unstability 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 killed in Hitler's infamous blood purge known as the Night of the Long Knives, because he was the author of a speech held by Chancellor Franz von Papen in Marburg, in which the conservative criticism of national socialism was clearly formulated.de:Edgar Julius Jung no:Edgar Julius Jung