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LASKER, EDUARD (1829-1884)
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See also:LASKER, EDUARD (1829-1884) , See also:German publicist, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:October 1829, at Jarotschin, a See also:village in See also:Posen, being the son of a Jewish tradesman. He attended the gymnasium, and afterwards the university of See also:Breslau. In 1848, after the outbreak of the revolution, he went to See also:Vienna and entered the students' See also:legion which took so prominent a See also:part in the disturbances; he fought against the imperial troops during the See also:siege of the See also:city in October. He then continued his legal studies at Breslau and See also:Berlin, and after a visit of three years to See also:England, then the See also:model See also:state for German liberals, entered the Prussian judicial service. In 1870 he See also:left the See also:government service, and in 1873 was appointed to an administrative See also:post in the service of the city of Berlin. He had been brought to the See also:notice of the See also:political See also:world by some articles he wrote from 1861 to 1864, which were afterwards published under the See also:title Zur Verfassungsgeschichte Preussens (See also:Leipzig, 1874), and in 1865 he was elected member for one of the divisions of Berlin in the Prussian See also:parliament. He joined the See also:radical or Fortschrilts party, and in 1867 was also elected to the German parliament, but he helped to See also:form the See also:national liberal party, and in See also:con-sequence lost his seat in Berlin, which remained faithful to the radicals; after this he represented See also:Magdeburg and See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main in the Prussian, and See also:Meiningen in the German, parliament. He threw himself with See also:great See also:energy into his See also:parliamentary duties, and quickly became one of its most popular and most influential members. An optimist and idealist, he joined to a fervent belief in See also:liberty an equal See also:enthusiasm for German unity and the See also:idea of the German state. His See also:motion that See also:Baden should be included in the See also:North German See also:Confederation in See also:January 187o caused much embarrassment to See also:Bismarck, but was not without effect in hastening the crisis of 187o. His great See also:work, however, was the See also:share he took in the judicial reform during the ten years 1867-1877. To him more than to any other single individual is due the great codification of the See also:law. While he again and again was able to compel the government to withdraw or amend proposals which seemed dangerous to liberty, he opposed those liberals who, unable to obtain all the concessions which they called for, refused to See also:vote for the new See also:laws as a whole. A speech made by Lasker on the 7th of See also:February 1873, in which he attacked the management of the Pomeranian railway, caused a great sensation, and his exposure of the See also:financial mismanagement brought about the fall of See also:Hermann Wagener, one of Bismarck's most trusted assistants. By this See also:action he caused, however, some embarrassment to his party. This is generally regarded as the beginning of the reaction against economic liberalism by which he and his party were to be deprived of their See also:influence. He refused to follow Bismarck in his financial and economic policy after 1878; always unsympathetic to the See also:chancellor, he was now selected for his most See also:bitter attacks. Between the radicals and socialists on the one See also:side and the government on the other, like many of his See also:friends, he was unable to maintain himself. In 1879 he lost his seat in the Prussian parliament; he joined the Sezession, but was See also:ill at ease in his,new position. Broken in See also:health and See also:spirits by the incessant labours of the See also:time when he did " See also:half the work of the Reichstag," he went in 1883 for a tour in See also:America, and died suddenly in New See also:York on the 5th of January 1884. Lasker's See also:death was the occasion of a curious See also:episode, which caused much discussion at the time. The See also:American See also:House of Representatives adopted a motion of regret, and added to it these words: " That his loss is not alone to be mourned by the See also:people of his native See also:land, where his See also:firm and See also:constant exposition of, and devotion to, See also:free and liberal ideas have materially advanced the social, political and economic conditions of these people, but by the lovers of liberty throughout the world." This motion was sent through the American See also:minister at Berlin to the German See also:foreign See also:office, with a See also:request that it might be communicated to the See also:president of the Reichstag. It was to ask Bismarck officially to communicate a See also:resolution in which a foreign parliament expressed an See also:opinion in German affairs exactly opposed to that which the See also:emperor at his See also:advice had always followed. Bismarck therefore refused to communicate the resolution, and re-turned it through the German minister at See also:Washington. Among Lasker's writings may be mentioned : Zur Geschichle der parlamentarischen Entwickelung Preussens (Leipzig, 1873), See also:Die Zukunft See also:des Deutschen Reichs (Leipzig, 1877) and Wege and Ziele der
Kulturentwickelung (Leipzig, 1881). After his death his Fiinfzehn See also:Laski entered the service of See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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