10 Facts About Franz Duncker

Franz Duncker was a German publisher, left-liberal politician and social reformer.

Franz Gustav Duncker was one of the sons of the publisher Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker.

In 1850 Franz Duncker acquired Wilhelm Besser's "Bessersche Verlags Buchhandlung" publishing business, and in 1853 he acquired from Aaron Bernstein the Urwahler-Zeitung, a pro-democracy daily newspaper.

Franz Duncker relaunched as a liberal voice with a new name as the Berliner Volks-Zeitung.

Franz Duncker sold the Berliner Volks-Zeitung to Emil Cohn in 1885: twenty years later, in 1904, it was acquired by Rudolf Mosse.

Franz Duncker was, in 1861, a founder of the liberal-leaning Progressive Party, serving on its national election committee.

Franz Duncker joined the Progressive Party executive committee in 1874.

Between 1861 and 1877 Franz Duncker sat as a Progressive Party member in the Prussian House of Representatives, representing the Saarbrucken-Ottweiler electoral district initially and, from 1867, the Berlin 4th electoral district.

In 1865 Franz Duncker became chairman of the Greater Berlin Artisans' League.

Together with Max Hirsch and Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch he established the Hirsch-Dunckersche Gewerkvereine, which was a form of liberal trades union movement, founded in 1868.