Evangelical Social Congress

The Evangelical Social Congress (German: Evangelisch-Sozialer Kongress, ESK) was a social-reform movement of German evangelists founded in Whitsuntide in 1890.

Various groups were united in the Congress, although, in the end, the Congress failed to set forth a united programme of "Christian socialism" (more so because people like Friedrich Naumann and Adolf Stoecker would depart from the Congress).

The Congress never carried a large membership, and was only marginal compared to the Verein für Socialpolitik, an organization that currently still exists.

Associated people

• Otto Baumgarten
• Paul Gohre
• Adolf von Harnack (longtime president of the Congress)
• Friedrich Naumann
• Martin Rade
• Paul Rohrbach
• Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz
• Walter Simons
• Adolf Stoecker
• Max Weber

Further reading

• Harry Liebersohn (December 2007). Religion and Industrial Society: The Protestant Social Congress in Wilhelmine Germany. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-1-4223-7450-4.
• Max Maurenbrecher (1903). "The Evangelical Social Congress in Germany". American Journal of Sociology. 9 (1): 24–36. doi:10.1086/211193. S2CID 143256562.
• Max Maurenbrecher (1903). "The Moral and Social Tasks of World Politics ("Imperialism")". American Journal of Sociology. 6 (3): 307–315. doi:10.1086/210978. S2CID 145616543.