Friedrich Naumann

Friedrich Naumann (born March 25, 1860, Störmthal, Prussia [Germany]—died August 24, 1919, Travemünde, Germany) was a political and social theorist, publicist, and reformer who became one of the most influential partisans of German liberalism combined with imperialism. As a young pastor, Naumann had joined the Christian Social movement of the Prussian court chaplain Adolf Stoecker, but he was eventually repelled by Stoecker’s social and theological conservatism. Through 1893 he shaped the journal Die Hilfe (“Assistance”)...