Ernst Jünger, RIP

THE German-speaking world has lost its most outstanding writer, thinker, and political personality. Born on March 29, 1895, in romantic Heidelberg, Ernst Jünger interrupted his classical studies at age 17 and joined the Foreign Legion. His pharmacist father succeeded in getting him back home, but just two years later the young man joined the Prussian Army (there was no German Army at that time) at the start of World War I.

Jünger loved the army life because he loved battle. He was wounded 12 times, and he received the order Pour le mérite. (With Junger’s death the military branch of that order is extinct.) He remained in the Reichswehr until 1923.

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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

THE German-speaking world has lost its most outstanding writer, thinker, and political personality. Born on March 29, 1895, in romantic Heidelberg, Ernst Jünger interrupted his classical studies at age 17 and joined the Foreign Legion. His pharmacist father succeeded in getting him back home, but just two years later the young man joined the Prussian Army (there was no German Army at that time) at the start of World War I.

Jünger loved the army life because he loved battle. He was wounded 12 times, and he received the order Pour le mérite. (With Junger’s death the military branch of that order is extinct.) He remained in the Reichswehr until 1923.