Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis: A Political Biography

1. Front Matter (pp. i-vi) 

    
2. Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)

    
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. ix-x) 

    
4. List of Abbreviations (pp. xi-xii) 

    
5. INTRODUCTION (pp. 1-8) 

    

   On June 30, 1934, Edgar Julius Jung, aged forty, was assassinated by the Nazi regime during what has come to be known as “the Night of the Long Knives.” His death was reported in several international newspapers such as London’sDaily Mailand theTimes, indicating that he was a well-known figure on the international scene. Yet few today are familiar with Jung’s name. The eleven years of Nazi rule after 1934 and the unsettled conditions in postwar Germany contributed to his slide into obscurity. For the young, newly emerging Federal Republic, Jung would have been an important figure representing...
   
6. CHAPTER ONE EARLY INFLUENCES AND THE SHAPING OF THE PERSONALITY (1894–1918) (pp. 9-25)

    

   Edgar Julius Jung was born on March 6, 1894, in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, the second son of Wilhelm Jakob Jung (born July 21, 1861) and his wife Frieda (née Friedrich) Jung (born October 28, 1868). Both parents were Protestants who hailed from well-established Pfalz families.¹ Edgar’s father, Wilhelm Jakob, wasOberlehrer(schoolmaster) at a Gymnasium for girls. His mother, Frieda, came from a farming family.² The Pfalz (also referred to as the Bavarian Palatinate) was primarily an agricultural region, but some of its towns and cities had experienced rapid industrialization and population growth during the years of the Kaiserreich (1871...
   
7. CHAPTER TWO ENTRY INTO POLITICS AND THE FIGHT AGAINST SEPARATISM: JUNG’S YEARS IN THE PFALZ (1918–24) (pp. 27-78) 

    

   The armistice that ended the First World War in November 1918 and the Treaty of Versailles that followed it mandated the occupation by Allied troops of all German territories west of the river Rhine. The British Army of the Rhine occupied a zone around Cologne, and the Belgian forces occupied a zone around Aachen. The French Army of the Rhine took control of a large zone stretching all along the west bank of the Rhine, roughly from Bonn in the north up to and including the region of the Pfalz (the so-called Bavarian Palatinate) in the south. Administrative responsibility for...
   
8. CHAPTER THREE JUNG’S PURSUIT OF LEADERSHIP OF THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION (1925–32) (pp. 79-159) 

    

   With the Pfalz years behind him, Jung struggled to establish his new law practice at Karlsplatz 23/II in Munich in partnership with his school friend, Otto Leibrecht. He received authorization on April 5, 1924, to work in the District Courts I and II of Munich, and on May 29, 1926, permission to work in the Superior Court. Although Bavarian Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner stated in 1925 that the extent of Jung’s law practice appeared to be very limited and that he was seldom seen in court, this related to the early years of Jung’s new law practice in Munich....
   
9. CHAPTER FOUR WITH PAPEN IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: THE FINAL YEARS (1932–34) (pp. 160-226)

    

   By the end of 1931, Jung had witnessed not only the collapse of his hopes with the VKV and his own Konservative Kampfgemeinschaft in Munich, but fortune had struck several other blows. His contract withMünchner Neueste Nachrichtenhad been terminated after personnel changes on the paper’s editorial board, his father-in-law had died, and he and his family had all suffered from ill health.¹ The year 1932, therefore, began with Jung at a low ebb, both psychologically and with regard to his political activities. Now that his contract withMünchner Neueste Nachrichtenhad been terminated, he was left with only...
   
10. CONCLUSION (pp. 227-232) 

     

    At the time of his death Jung was a committed politician with a burning ambition for the highest offices in government. A man of tremendous energy and initiative, his prolific activities as a writer and speaker helped him to establish an international reputation. The contradictions in his personality and his tendency to take up extreme positions were fueled by the turbulence of his time. Moderation and compromise were alien concepts for him. His Conservative Revolution in many respects embodied the polar opposites of what he saw and feared around him. Fear of modernity led him to see the Middle Ages...
    
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