29 Facts About Wilhelm Blos

Wilhelm Josef Blos was a German journalist, historian, novelist, dramatist and politician.

Wilhelm Blos served as a member of the imperial parliament between 1877 and 1918, albeit with one three year break.

Wilhelm Joseph Blos was born at Wertheim am Main during the aftermath of the 1848 uprisings, the son of a physician who had moved away from the big city on account of his delicate health.

Aloys Blos died from an incurable lung disease in 1856, when his son Wilhelm was just seven years old.

Wilhelm Blos's grandfather died almost at once, but his grandmother attended to his education.

In 1875 Wilhelm Blos founded his own magazine, the weekly satirical "Mainzer Eulenspiegel".

Wilhelm Blos's incarceration appears to have been brief, but "Mainzer Eulenspiegel" seems not to have survived.

Wilhelm Blos participated as the delegate representing no fewer than 125 party members from Mainz and Gartenfeld.

Wilhelm Blos was working between 1878 and 1881, alongside Ignaz Auer at the short-lived "Gerichtszeitung".

In 1879 to the support of the politically committed publisher Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz, Wilhelm Blos found himself installed as the first editor-in-chief of Der Wahre Jacob, a socialist satirical magazine published monthly between November 1879 and October 1880.

Wilhelm Blos was given 48 hours to leave what had by this time become his home city.

Wilhelm Blos found refuge initially in Mainz, and subsequently in Bremen.

In backing the Steamboat subsidy Law, Wilhelm Blos presented himself as an unapologetic internationalist.

Wilhelm Blos contributed frequently under his pseudonym "Hans Flux", though the job of editor-in-chief now passed to others.

Wilhelm Blos served as editor-in-chief at the Berliner Volksblatt between 1884 and 1890.

Wilhelm Blos n3vertheless delivered several notable speeches over the years, especially with regard to worker protection.

Wilhelm Blos was, in addition, known as an advocate for a parliamentary alliance between the SPD and the Liberals, and as a supporter of political and social reform.

Wilhelm Blos turned increasingly to historical research and other projects of penmanship.

Wilhelm Blos's conservative upbringing made her, on the face of things, an effective Wurttemberg politician.

Wilhelm Blos came out in support of the leadership's backing for the war.

Nevertheless, by the time Wilhelm Blos walked past with his wife a red flag fluttered from the royal palace.

Wilhelm Blos reminded his listeners that events had landed them, as representatives of the people, with political power.

Wilhelm Blos was no great orator, but evidently his words resonated with his nervous audience.

Thanks to the length of his parallel careers in journalism and politics, Wilhelm Blos was very much a "known quantity" for many of those who selected him to head up the Wurttemberg provisional government.

Wilhelm Blos was a figure around whom both "radical democrats" and many "bourgeois traditionalists" might hope to find common ground.

Five weeks later, in recognition that Wurttemberg no longer had a king at the apex of the political hierarchy, Wilhelm Blos lost his title of "minister-president", becoming instead "Staatsprasident".

Wilhelm Blos continued to sit as a member of the parliament till 1924.

Wilhelm Blos led his final years under circumstances of financial difficulty, however.

Wilhelm Blos died on 6 July 1927 at the municipal hospital of Bad Cannstatt.