Author: Liebermann von Sonnenberg, Max [1848-1911]
Title: Reichstagsrede des Abgeordneten Liebermann von Sonnenberg..,.vom 10. November 1908 über: Kaiser - Kanzler und auswärtige Politik
Description: Hamburg, Deutschnationalen, n.d. [1908]. 16 pages. Without wrappers (as issued?).In Fraktur. Not in Worldcat. Published by Verlag der Deutschnationalen Buchhandlung.. Folded in half. Some wear.Page browning. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Reichstagsrede des Abgeordneten Liebermann von Sonnenberg, Vorsitzender der Fraktion der Wirtschaftlichen Vereinigung. Gehalten in der Reichstagssitzung vom 10. November 1908 über: Kaiser - Kanzler und auswärtige Politik". ["Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg was a German officer who became noted as an anti- Semitic politician and publisher. He was part of a wider campaign against German Jews that became a central feature of nationalist politics in Imperial Germany in the late nineteenth century...The foundation of the Christian Social Party by Adolf Stoecker in 1878 helped to galvanise anti-Semitic activity in Germany and brought Liebermann von Sonnenberg, then an officer in the German Imperial Army, to politics. He came to the fore in 1880 when he was central to the organisation of a petition calling for the removal of the Jews from all public positions. The petition attracted as many as 225,000 signatories.Joining with Bernhard Förster, the brother-in-law of Friedrich Nietzsche, he set up the Deutscher Volksverein (German People's League) in 1881 to support the anti-Semitic agenda... became noted for his attempts to introduce a bill to ban all Jewish immigration during every session of the Reichstag. His 1897 bill that sought to reintroduce denominational oaths in court cases was passed and represented the only occasion when a bill introduced by one of the anti-Semites was successful. He continued to represent his constituency of Fritzlar until his death in 1911" - wikipedia].

Keywords: German Political History, Wilhelmine Germany, Anti-Semitic, Germany, Nationalist, Nationalism, Politics, ,