Researching Franz Jung
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 62 people with the Jung surname? In that year Jung was ranked number 3517 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Franz means "Form of FRANCIS. (Male) A Free Man" and is of German origin.
Records of Franz Jung on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Franz Jung in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Franz Jung and the Jung Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Jung Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Jung family tree.
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Jung Genealogy Databases
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Jung Forums
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Miscellaneous Jung Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Franz Jung. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Franz Jung
Franz Jung
Franz Josef Johannes Konrad Jung (26 November 1888, Neisse, Upper Silesia – 21 January 1963, Stuttgart) was a writer, economist and political activist in Germany. He also wrote under the names Franz Larsz and Frank Ryberg.
He grew up in Neisse (now Nysa) and was a childhood friend of the poet Max Herrmann-Neisse.
He studied music, law and economics in Leipzig, Jena, Breslau and Munich.
From 1909 he worked as a journalist and soon started writing for Der Sturm and Die Aktion. The Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Gross was a large influence upon him
He was a member of the League for Proletarian Culture (1919–1920). In 1921 he travelled with Jan Appel to participate in the 3rd World Congress of the Comintern in 1921 as a delegate of the Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD). Their clandestine transport involved hijacking the SS Senator Schröder, which was bound for fishing grounds near Iceland, to Murmansk, Russia.
He participated in the March Action (March 1921), and escaped to the Netherlands, where he was captured and deported to the Soviet Union. There he worked for the Workers International Relief during the Volga famine.
He died on January 21, 1963, in Stuggart, West Germany.
Source: Franz Jung, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Jung
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