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August Bebel
Ferdinand August Bebel was a German social democratic politician. One of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he was a leader of the German workers' movement for over four decades. Bebel served as a member of parliament in the North German Confederation from 1867 to 1870 and in the German Empire from 1871 until his death in 1913, becoming the movement's leading parliamenta…
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culture · German social democratic politician (1840–1913) · politician · writer · turner · social democrat · party leader · also August Bebel, August Ferdinand Bebel, Ferdinand August Bebel, Bebel
Born 22 February 1840 · Died 13 August 1913 · Q76520
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World Socialist Web Site: August Bebel and the political awakening of the working class
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1913· 3 entries
Died 1913-08-13.
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Bebel was revered by the German working class and recognized internationally as a major political figure
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Becoming the movement's leading parliamentary voice
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1912· 1 entry
The SPD won a massive electoral victory, capturing 110 seats to become the largest party in the Reichstag
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1906· 1 entry
Under pressure from the powerful trade unions, Bebel performed a "masterpiece of rhetoric and leadership" by executing a tactical retreat
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1905· 1 entry
In a marathon three-and-a-half-hour address, Bebel engineered a compromise
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1896· 1 entry
And his 1899 book The Preconditions of Socialism, Bernstein challenged fundamental tenets of Marxism, arguing that capitalism was not collapsing but adapting, and that the SPD should abandon its revolutionary goals in fa
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1891· 1 entry
The party adopted a new program drafted primarily by Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein
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1890· 2 entries
The party was renamed the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and a new, decentralized organizational structure was adopted to navigate the remaining restrictive state laws
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Bebel oversaw the SPD's transformation into a mass party, helping to draft its influential Erfurt Program in 1891
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1880· 1 entry
Bebel successfully led the move to expel the anarchist faction led by Johann Most and Wilhelm Hasselmann, thereby preserving the party's commitment to a political, rather than terrorist, strategy
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1879· 1 entry
Was a groundbreaking analysis of the oppression of women from a Marxist perspective
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1878· 1 entry
Two failed assassination attempts on Kaiser Wilhelm I by individuals with tenuous connections to socialism provided Chancellor Otto von Bismarck with a pretext to suppress the growing movement
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1871· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the German Empire (1871–1913).
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Which Bebel hailed in the Reichstag as a "preliminary skirmish" in the long campaign of the international working class
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1869· 1 entry
Which in 1875 merged with the General German Workers' Association to form what would become the SPD
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1867· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation (1867–1867).
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Bebel was elected as a deputy to the Reichstag of the new North German Confederation for the Glauchau-Meerane district, beginning his long parliamentary career
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Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation (1867–1871).
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1866· 2 entries
Bebel married Johanna Carolina Henrietta Otto, known as Julie, a milliner and the daughter of a railroad worker
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An anti-Prussian, democratic party that sought to unite working-class and lower-middle-class elements in a broad coalition against Prussian hegemony
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1865· 1 entry
Liebknecht moved to Leipzig, where he and Bebel launched a campaign against the Lassalleans and their new leader, Johann Baptist von Schweitzer
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1864· 2 entries
Bebel began his career as a self-employed master turner in Leipzig in 1864.
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Liebknecht joined the VDAV and began to steer it toward Marxist principles
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1860· 1 entry
Was largely ignorant of politics and socialist theory
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1840· 1 entry
Born 1840-02-22.
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