10 Facts About Johann Plenge

Johann Max Emanuel Plenge was a German sociologist.

Johann Plenge was professor of political economy at the University of Munster.

Johann Plenge argued: "Under the necessity of war, socialist ideas have been driven into German economic life, its organisation has grown together into a new spirit, and so the assertion of our nation for mankind has given birth to the idea of 1914, the idea of German organisation, the national unity of state socialism".

Johann Plenge regarded the war between Germany and England as a war between opposite principles, and believed that the "struggle for victory were new forces born out of the advanced economic life of the nineteenth century: socialism and organization".

Johann Plenge was born into a prominent patrician family in Bremen.

Johann Plenge then studied under Heinrich Dietzel at the University of Bonn, receiving his doctorate in 1897.

Johann Plenge was influenced by Johann Karl Rodbertus, Lorenz von Stein and Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

Johann Plenge set up the Research Institute for Organisational Studies and Sociology.

Johann Plenge developed a cult of personality around himself, placing a bronze bust of himself in the institute.

Johann Plenge had a strong influence; the Marxist theorist and SPD politician Paul Lensch, along nationalistic lines.