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BUCHER, LOTHAR (1817–1892)

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BUCHER, LOTHAR (1817–1892) , See also:German publicist, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:October 1817 at Neu See also:Stettin, in See also:Pomerania, his See also:father being See also:master at a gymnasium. After studying at the university of See also:Berlin he adopted the legal profession. Elected a member of the See also:National See also:Assembly in Berlin in 1848, he was an active See also:leader of the extreme democratic party. With others of his colleagues he was in 185o brought to trial for having taken See also:part in organizing a See also:movement for refusal to pay taxes; he was condemned to fifteen months' imprisonment in a fortress, but See also:left the See also:country before the See also:sentence was executed. For ten years he lived in See also:exile, chiefly in See also:London; he acted as See also:special correspondent of the National Zeitung, and gained a See also:great knowledge of See also:English See also:life; and he published a See also:work, Der Parliamentarismus wie er ist, a See also:criticism of See also:parliamentary See also:government, which shows a marked See also:change in his See also:political opinions. In 186o he returned to See also:Germany, and became intimate with See also:Lassalle, who made him his See also:literary executor. In 1864 he was offered by See also:Bismarck, and accepted, a high position in the Prussian See also:foreign See also:office. The reasons that led him to a step which involved so See also:complete a break with his earlier See also:friends and associations are not clearly known. From this See also:time till his See also:death he acted as Bismarck's secretary, and was the See also:man who probably enjoyed the greatest amount of his confidence. It was he who See also:drew up the See also:text of the constitution of the See also:North German See also:Confederation; in 187o he was sent on a very confidential See also:mission to See also:Spain in connexion with the See also:Hohenzollern candidature for the See also:Spanish See also:crown; he assisted Bismarck at the final negotiations for the treaty of See also:Frankfort, and was one of the secretaries to the See also:congress of Berlin; he also assisted Bismarck in the See also:composition of his See also:memoirs. Bucher, who was a man of great ability, had considerable See also:influence, which was especially directed against the economic doctrines of the Liberals; in 1881 he published a pamphlet criticizing the influence and principles of the See also:Cobden See also:Club. He identified him-self completely with Bismarck's later commercial and colonial policy, and probably had much to do with introducing it, and he did much to encourage See also:anti-See also:British feeling in Germany.

He died at Glion, in See also:

Switzerland, on the 12th of October 1892. See Heinrich v. Poschinger, Fin 48er: Lothar Buchers Leben and Werke (3 vols., Berlin, 189o) ; See also:Busch, Bismarck: some See also:Secret Pages of his See also:History (London, 1898). (J. W.

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