The Evangelical Social Congress (, 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
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