The National Liberal Party was a liberal party of the North German Confederation and the German Empire which flourished between 1867 and 1918.
Leading politicians of the National Liberal Party from left to right: Wilhelm Wehrenpfennig, Eduard Lasker, Heinrich von Treitschke and Johannes von Miquel; bottom row from left to right: Franz von Roggenbach, Karl Braun, Rudolf Gneist and Ludwig Bamberger (woodcut c. 1878)
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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.