National Socialism : Its Foundations, Development, and Goals (1922 2nd ed.)
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- National Socialism : Its Foundations, Development, and Goals (1922 2nd ed.)
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- German Austrian
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- 1922
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National Socialism : Its Foundations, Development, and Goals (1922 2nd ed.)
Author: Rudolf Jung
Year: 1922
Rudolf Jung (b.1882 - d.1945) was a Sudeten-German railway engineer, trade-unionist, parliamentarian, and political activist. He was one of the early pioneers of National Socialism, and the National Socialist movement's first major theoretician. In 1909, Jung joined the German Workers' Party in Austria ( Deutschen Arbeiterpartei in Österreich, DAPÖ), a nationalist-socialist party which had first been founded by German-Austrian workers in 1904. In 1912 Jung was elected to the Moravian Landtag as a representative for the party. In 1913 he and his compatriot, Dr. Walter Riehl (a fellow trade-unionist, and a former Social-Democrat), drafted an updated party programme for the DAPÖ. Jung emerged as a significant party leader when he was tasked with helping to maintain the party's organization during the War. After the War's end, the DAPÖ reconstituted itself as the German National Socialist Workers' Party ( Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei, DNSAP) in order to make its ideological position clearer. Jung wrote a new programme for the DNSAP, and also produced the first edition of his book Der nationale Sozialismus ( National Socialism ) at this time. Jung's book was the first