Otto Everling

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Otto Everling 1907

Otto Everling (born March 31, 1864 in Eschweiler ; † December 27, 1945 in Garz / Rügen ) was a German theologian and politician.

In the spring of 1884 Everling graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Cologne) . Everling was director (chief executive officer) of the Evangelical Union from 1912 to 1922 . From 1907 to 1912 and from 1920 to 1924 he was a member of the Reichstag for the DVP , constituency Dresden-Bautzen. In the Weimar Republic, he was also chairman of the German intellectual workers ' protection cartel , a loose association of academic professional associations, from 1923 until it was dissolved in 1934. In this role, Everling developed into one of the main representatives of a radicalized conservative revolution in the late 1920s ) Image of society. This stood out u. a. through his idea of ​​an “organic”, national community, class divided into “head and limbs”. Under the impression of the overcrowding of the academic labor markets in the 1920s, Everling and the academic professional associations expected further privileges from such a social order.

literature

  • Werner Georg Kümmel: The new testament: history of research into its problems . Alber publishing house, 1970

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