biography
pronunciation:
[shtoeker]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1835–1909)
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| biography:
| German politician, born in Halberstadt, C Germany. Protestant court preacher in Berlin (1874–90), he was appointed head of Berlin's Town Mission (1877) with the special task of winning over the proletariat for the Church. He founded the Christlich-Soziale Arbeiterparteien (1878) which, due to its monarchist nationalistic tendencies, drew no response from the working class. Because of his anti-Semitism, which he channelled into the Berliner Bewegung, he was much more influential with the middle classes. He served as member of the Prussian Abgeordnetenhaus (1879–98) and member of the Reichstag (1881–93, 1898–1908). |
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