Edgar Julius Jung

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Edgar Julius Jung (March 6, 1894 – July 1, 1934) was a German lawyer from Ludwigshafen, Bavaria. He was a leader of the Conservative Revolutionary movement, which stood not only in opposition to the Weimar Republic, whose parliamentarian system he considered decadent and foreign-imposed, 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.

In 1934, Jung authored a speech delivered on June 17 by Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen at the University of 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 by the SS. His body was found dumped near the town of Oranienburg near Berlin on July 1.

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