1. Eugen Richter was a German politician and journalist in Imperial Germany.
17 Facts About Eugen Richter
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Eugen Richter was one of the leading Old Liberals in the Prussian Landtag and the German Reichstag.
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Son of a combat medic, Richter attended the Gymnasium in his home town of Dusseldorf.
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Eugen Richter became a strong advocate of free trade, a market economy, and a Rechtsstaat; views he held for all his life.
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Eugen Richter achieved some renown for his essay Uber die Freiheit des Schankgewerbes.
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Eugen Richter left the civil service, and became the parliamentary correspondent of the Elberfelder Zeitung in Berlin.
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Eugen Richter became the leader of the German Progress Party, after 1884 the German Freeminded Party, after 1893 the Free-minded People's Party, and was one of the leading critics of the policies of Otto von Bismarck.
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Eugen Richter opposed the Anti-Socialist Laws of 1878 that banned the Social Democratic Party.
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Eugen Richter said: "I fear Social-Democracy more under this law than without it".
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When Bismarck proposed a system of social insurance that was to be paid for by the state, Eugen Richter denounced it as "not Socialistic, but Communistic".
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Eugen Richter's novel "Pictures of the Socialistic Future" is a dystopian novel which predicts what would happen to Germany if the socialism espoused by the trade unionists, social democrats, and Marxists was put into practice.
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Eugen Richter aims to show that government ownership of the means of production and central planning of the economy would lead to shortages, not abundance as the socialists claimed.
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Eugen Richter argues that Richter held, unlike some thinkers critical of socialism, such repression is inherent with its actual practice, rather than a defect.
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Eugen Richter ascribes this to Richter's personal acquaintance with the original leaders of the German socialist movement, and notes that Richter queried them about the very issues he elucidates in the novel.
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Eugen Richter delivered a speech before an audience of 2.500 electors, attacking anti-semitic university students:.
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Eugen Richter referred to these words, which the Crown Prince confirmed two days later:.
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Eugen Richter rejected the claim that the anti-semitic movement had grown from the ranks of craftsmen, workers, and businessmen:.