The Evangelical Social Congress (german: Evangelisch-Sozialer Kongress, ESK) was a social-reform movement of German evangelists founded in

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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

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and

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would depart from the Congress). The Congress never carried a large membership, and was only marginal compared to the

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, an organization that currently still exists.

Associated people

* Otto Baumgarten * Paul Gohre * Adolf von Harnack (longtime president of the Congress) *

* Martin Rade *

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* Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz * Walter Simons *

* Max Weber

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