Evangelical Social Congress

The Evangelical Social Congress (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