being shot in the cellar at Gestapo headquarters. His body was found dumped in a ditch near the town of Oranienburg near Berlin on 1 July. Works The Rule of the Inferiour: Its Disintegration and Removal Through a New Reich is his major political treatise which was originally published in 1930 as Die Herrschaft der Minderwertigen, ihr Zerfall und ihre Ablösung durch ein neues Reich ("Inferiour" is an obsolete spelling of "Inferior"). The translator, Alexander Jacob, produced the first and only English edition in 1995 with a large introduction and notes, sold in two volumes; the first volume being 428 pages and the second 396 pages. In Sinndeutung der deutschen Revolution (1933), written less than year before he was murdered by the Nazis, Jung declared that "violence is an element of life" and that "a nation that has become incapable of employing violence must be suspected of biological decline." See also Herbert von Bose Erich Klausener References Further reading . Mosley, Michael Lee (1987) Metaphysical revenge: The ideas and life of Edgar Julius Jung. Miami. Orth, Rainer (2016) "Der Amtssitz der Opposition"?: Politik und Staatsumbaupläne im Büro des Stellvertreters des Reichskanzlers in den Jahren 1933–1934. Böhlau, Cologne. External links "The Neo-Conservative Reich of Edgar Julius Jung" by Alexander Jacob in The Scorpion Biography from the Germany History Museum's site Biography 1894 births 1934 deaths People from Ludwigshafen 20th-century German lawyers German People's Party politicians Conservative Revolutionary movement Victims of the Night of the Long Knives German Army personnel of World War I People from the Palatinate (region) People from Rhineland-Palatinate executed by Nazi Germany People executed by Nazi Germany by firearm Military personnel of Bavaria Roman Catholics in the German Resistance 20th-century Freikorps personnel Jurists from Rhineland-Palatinate