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Rudolf Jung was born in Plasy and was a native of Jihlava, a town fractured by national antagonisms. He was a civil engineer employed by the national railways of the Austro-Hungary. His party work took him from Vienna, to Bohemia. In 1910, he joined the German Workers Party (DAP) and became an ardent party agitator. Because of his party provocations, Jung was fired but his party put him on their payroll and he devoted himself to theoretical work. Along with Dr. Walter Riehl , he drafted the Jihlava party program of 1913 "which contained a more detailed comparison of international Marxism and national socialism and a more pointed attack on capitalism, Democracy, alien peoples, and Jews. Here, anti-semitism ranked behind anti-Slavism, anti-clericalismAnti-clericalism is a movement that opposes religious interference into public and political life and more generally the encroachment of religion in the citizens' lives. It suggests a more active and partisan role than mere laicite. France Anti-clericalis and anti-capitalism." (3) In 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus, he completed his theoretical work Der Nationale Sozialismus. Jung expressed the hope in his introduction that his book would play the same role for national socialism that Das Kapital did for Marxian socialism. Because he was an extreme provacatuer, he was forced to flee Bohemia and moved to MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se, GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east. He brought with him a National Socialist ProgramThe National Socialist Program also referred to as the 25-point program was developed to formulate the party policies of, first, the Austrian German Workers Party (or DAP) and was copied later by Adolf Hitler's Nazi party. It is an amalgamation of demands which he undoubtedly shared with the DAP party in Munich under the leadership of Anton DrexlerAnton Drexler ( June 13, 1884 February 24, 1942) was a Munich locksmith and member of the volkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers' Party (DAP) in 1919. At the behest of Adolf Hitler who had joined the party and Adolf Hitler. It is he that convinced Hitler to use the term "National Socialist" since Hitler wanted to rename the Munich DAP, the "Social Revolutionary Party". (2)
Some of the posts and honors he held were; President of the State Labour office in area Middle Germany; Gauleiter ad Honorem (honorary); in 1936, Member of the Reichstag for the district Westfalia South. In 1943, he became the Reich Inspector and Director of the Reich Inspection of Labour Administration. (1)
He died of starvation in Prague's Pankrác prison.
His work: Der nationale Sozialismus: seine Grundlagen, sein Werdegang und seine Ziele (National Socialism, Its Development and Its Goals), Aussig, 1919. 2nd ed.; Munich: Deutscher Volksverlag Dr. Boepple, l922.