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Ernst Jünger was born in Heidelberg as the eldest of six children of the chemical engineer Ernst Georg Jünger (1868–1943) and of Karoline Lampl (1873–1950). Two of his siblings died as infants. His father acquired some wealth in potash mining.
Ernst Jünger married Gretha von Jeinsen in 1925 and the couple remained together up to her death in 1960. He had two children from this marriage. In 1962, Ernst got married for a second time to Liselotte Lohrer.
Feb 17, 1998 · Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) grew up in a middle-class German home. Just after finishing his secondary education in 1914, he volunteered and was sent with an infantry regiment to the western front.
Ernst Jünger was a German novelist and essayist, an ardent militarist who was one of the most complex and contradictory figures in 20th-century German literature. Jünger joined the French Foreign Legion in 1913, but his father had him brought back to Germany.
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May 8, 2020 · Who was Ernst Junger? Ernst Junger, born the 29th of March, 1895 in the German author, was many things. From these things include, but are far from being limited to, soldier, author, nationalist, anti-industrialist, rebel, worker, scholar, and frequenter of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and psilocybin, to name a handful.
Dec 14, 2022 · Some people live more history than others: born in Heidelberg in 1895, the German literary giant Ernst Jünger survived a stint in the French Foreign Legion, the rise of the Third Reich, two world wars, fourteen flesh wounds, the death of his son (likely executed for treason by the SS), the partition of Germany, and its reunification, before ...
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Feb 20, 2019 · Jünger, the son of a chemical engineer and a mother of artistic bent, had inherited both aspects of his parents’ make-up. He hinted at his own contribution – that of the warrior – when he ran away to join the French Foreign Legion at the age of 18. He was drawn back by his father’s promise of a trip to Mount Kilimanjaro.
