Images - Politics II: Parties and Political Mobilization

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1.	Kulturkampf Legislation (May 31, 1875) Facsimile of the first page of the law of May 31, 1875, regarding “the religious orders and similar congregations of the Catholic Church” [“die geistlichen Orden und ordensähnlichen Kongregationen....
2.	Bismarck and Center Party Leader Ludwig Windthorst (May 3, 1879) In this contemporary woodcut, Bismarck introduces his wife to the Catholic Center Party leader Ludwig Windthorst (1812-1891) at a parliamentary soirée.
3.	Socialists on Trial for Treason (1872) In the autumn of 1870, public opposition to the war against France was voiced in the Reichstag by August....
4.	Social Democratic Workers’ Party Congress in Dresden (August 12-15, 1871) Group photograph of participants in the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party....
5.	Ludwig Knaus, The Dissatisfied One [Der Unzufriedene] (1877) This painting by Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910) was originally titled The Social Democrat [Der Sozialdemokrat]. With his back against the wall, a seemingly disgruntled worker sits alone in....
6.	Ernst Henseler, Tavern Scene [Wirtshausszene] (1877) Like Ludwig Knaus’s The Dissatisfied One [Der Unzufriedene], Ernst Henseler’s (b.....
7.	First Assassination Attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm I (May 11, 1878) On May 11, 1878, Max Hödel, a twenty-one-year-old unemployed journeyman plumber, fired three shots in an attempt to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm I, but all missed their intended target. The attempt....
8.	Kaiser Wilhelm I Recuperating from a Second Assassination Attempt (1878) On June 2, 1878, having escaped injury from an assassination attempt by Max Hödel barely three....
9.	"Reichstag Dissolution" (July 7, 1878) The caption to this Kladderadatsch cartoon reads: “The arrow is aimed at the Social Democrats; but what if it overshoots the mark?” The journal accurately reflected Bismarck’s intention to....
10.	August Bebel and Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche during the Socialist Law Debates (September 16-17, 1878) Social Democratic Party leaders August Bebel (1840-1913), left, and Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche (1825-1905) look on as Bismarck delivers the Reichstag speech in which he defended his proposed
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