Arnsberg - People from Arnsberg, Wilhelm Hasenclever, Franz Muntefering, Franz Stock, Walther Arms, Hans Bernd Gisevius, Fritz Cremer (Paperback)

Chapters: People From Arnsberg, Wilhelm Hasenclever, Franz Muntefering, Franz Stock, Walther Arms, Hans Bernd Gisevius, Fritz Cremer, Lothar Collatz, Karl Albert, Max Schede, Anuschka Tischer, Andrea Fischer, Wolfram Kuschke. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilhelm Hasenclever (19 April 1837 in Arnsberg, Prussia (Westphalia province) 3 July 1889 in Berlin-Schoneberg) was a German politician. He was an originally a tanner by trade, and later became a journalist and author. However, he is most well-known for his political work in the predecessors of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1869/70 Hasenclever was a representative for the General German Workers' Association (Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) in the Reichstag (parliament) of the North German Confederation. From 1871 on he was the last president of the ADAV, until it merged with the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei, SDAP) to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAP). From 1874 to 1888 he was again a social democrat representative in the Reichstag of the German Empire that had been formed in 1871: Originally for the ADAV, later for the SAP. Hasenclever was member of the party board there as well. Together with Wilhelm Liebknecht, he also founded the party paper Vorwarts, the official newspaper of the SPD until the 1990s. Wilhelm Hasenclever was the son of a self-employed tanner. The family had protestant roots and had migrated to the catholic Arnsberg. After visiting secondary school up to the "Sekunda" (equivalent to today's Mittlere Reife, a diploma of secondary education below the full-blown Abitur) he learned the tanning trade from his parents. In 1857/58 he was forced into...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=542419