Edgar Julius Jung
Edgar Julius Jung (Ludwigshafen, March 6th, 1894 1 - Oranienburg, June 30th, 1934 1), was a lawyer, and a German preserving politician. Its opposition to the Nazism and its participation in the drafting of the Discours of Marbourg were worth to him to be assassinated at the time of the Nuit of the long knives
The first annés 1894-1922
Born on March 6th, 1894 1 with Ludwigshafen, in a middle-class family, her baccalaureat in 1912 obtains. In 193, it starts studies of right to Lausanne.In 1914, during the release of the First World War, it engages like volunteer. It is promoted lieutenant in 1916 and fights on make West. At the end of the conflict, it joined the Freikorps ordered by Epp and takes part in the crushing of the République of the councils of Munich on May 2nd, 1919 1.
It resumes then its studies of right to Heidelberg then with Würzburg where it takes down its doctorate in right. In 1922, it settles as lawyer with Zweibrücken, in the Palatinat and it Marie.
A nationalist actvist
Since December 1918, Palatinat is occupied by find French, following the Traité of Versailles. With bank manager of Kaiserslautern, Jung founds in 1923 organization secret Reinisch-Pfälsichen Kampfbund , which fights at the same time against the French occupation and the movements which want to make Palatinat independent of Germany, with the support of France.
In 1923, separatist disorders burst in Rhenish Palatinat and in the Prussian Rhineland with an aim of creating a palatine Republic (just as a Rhenish République was proclaimed with Aachen), involving a violent reaction. In the evening of January 9th, 1924 1, under the command of Jung, a troop of a score of men crosses the Rhine taken by the ices and penetrate in the dining room Wittelsbacher Hofes with Spire. They assassinate there the president of the autonomous republic of Palatinat, Franz Josef Heinz. Jung is slightly wounded during the exchanges of gunfire, but he manages to flee and takes refuge in Munich.
During the same year it presents its candidature for the Reichstag, under the colors of the Deutsche Volkspartei , the party of Gustav Stresemann, but it is not elected.
After the catch of puvoir by the Nazis
As of the accession of Adolf Hitler with the chancellery with the head of a cabinet of coalition, on January 30th, 1933 1, Jung offers its services to the sharp-chancellor conseravtor Franz von Papen, as political adviser and to write his speeches and execre its activié within the vice-chancellery.
See also: Speech of Marbourg
June 17th, 1934 1, the vice-chancellor von Papen speaks in front of the étudaint of the univesrsity of Marbourg. In its speech, primarily written by Jung, it expressly mentions the threat of one “second revolution” and denounces “all that is dissimulated selfishness, claim under the coat of the German revolution confusion between brutality and virility the terrorist methods in the field of justice”. This speech throws “a bomb on the public place”: it constitutes a violent public criticism of the diretion printed with the government by Hitler and of the methods of the Nazis and clarifies the deep divergences and the oppositions between the various components of the government.