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Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (c. 1865)

Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811-1877), Catholic Bishop of Mainz, social reformer and politician. Ketteler adopted both conservative criticism of occupational freedom and socialist economic theories. He blamed liberal free market economics for workers' misery, yet also held that the old system of guilds was no longer in keeping with the times. Lithograph, c. 1865.

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Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (c. 1865)

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