Anti-Socialist Laws
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The Anti-Socialist Laws or Socialist Laws was an act of the Reichstag of the German Empire passed on 19 October 1878. After its original two-and-a-half year term had been extended four times, it was a
The official promulgation of the Anti-Socialist Law in the Reichsgesetzblatt of 21 October 1878
Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of the General German Workers' Association (ADAV)
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the chief sponsor and backer of the Anti-Socialist Law, in 1873
Breakup of a socialist meeting in Leipzig, from an illustration accompanying the article Convicted Social Democrats in the magazine Daheim in 1881. Among those pictured are Wilhelm Hasenclever seated at the table (second from right), Wilhelm Liebknecht standing in front of the window, and August Bebel seated in front of Liebknecht.
1890 German federal election
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A federal election for the eighth Reichstag of the German Empire was held on 20 February 1890. It was an early election called after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck requested that the Reichstag elected i
Ludwig Windthorst JS
Otto von Helldorff
Rudolf Virchow NLM4
R. v. Bennigsen