Agrarian conservatism in Germany was a type of conservatism that began to wane in popularity prior to the rise of the Nazi Party. Following the Aufklärung, German Conservatives rejected the newly-emergent habit of constantly questioning the status quo and never finding satisfaction in the present moment. Instead, these conservatives ardently insisted that this new, “enlightened” mode of thought was dominated by perverse skepticism, immorality, and the undermining of authority. By the late nineteenth century, the conservative ideology had fragmented as thinkers began to postulate their own understandings of the world. Some conservatives adopted Romantic views of the world and began to compose their dictums with strong, underlying senses of nostalgia. Nowhere was this sentiment stronger than