Documents - Politics II: Parties and Political Mobilization

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11.	Conservative Leader Otto von Helldorff-Bedra Defends Bismarck’s Anti-Socialist Legislation (September 16, 1878) In contrast to the National Liberals, who voiced reservations to Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Law,....
12.	Socialist Leader August Bebel Condemns Anti-Socialist Legislation (September 16, 1878) Otto von Helldorff-Bedra's call for support for Bismarck's Anti-Socialist....
13.	Anti-Socialist Law (October 21, 1878) The Anti-Socialist Law of 1878 was perhaps the most important repressive law of Bismarck’s chancellorship. Bismarck, who had never hidden his distaste for the teachings of socialism, made several....
14.	Ludwig Bamberger on the Extension of the Anti-Socialist Law (1884) In April and May 1884, fear of a Reichstag dissolution threw German left liberals into the grotesque situation of opposing the extension of the Anti-Socialist....
15.	Theodor Barth on the Need for Left-Liberal Opposition to Bismarck (June 26, 1886) By the mid-1880s many German liberals felt betrayed by Bismarck's autocratic policies. They criticized the chancellor for riding “state-supporting” parties like post-horses, driving each one to exhaustion....
16.	A Working-Class Youth in the Harz Region on the Expiry of the Anti-Socialist Law (September 30, 1890) After twelve years of repression by the authorities, the expiry of the Anti-Socialist Law....
17.	Imperial and Free Conservative Party, Founding Manifesto (October 27, 1867) Although dissension was evident in conservative ranks as early as July 1866, after the North German Confederation was established in 1867 a small group split from the main body of Conservatives to....
18.	German Conservative Party, Founding Manifesto (June 7/July 12, 1876) After several years of liberal political dominance in the German Empire, debilitating internal wrangles, and alienation from Bismarck, German Conservatives realized in the mid-1870s that they had....
19.	The Appeal of the Conservative Party in One Federal State (1876-1877) The veneer of doctrinal unity and national reliability expressed in the German Conservative Party's 1876 program was transparently thin to observers in non-Prussian territories. These reports from....
20.	Program of the Catholic Center Party's Reichstag Caucus (late March 1871) After German unification the Catholic Center Party developed into the most stable political force in the Reichstag. It won between 90 and 105 seats, with 23-26% of the popular vote, in every Reichstag....
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