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See also: RICHTER, EUGEN (1839–1906) , See also:German politician, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:July 1839 at See also:Dusseldorf. After attending the See also:universities of See also:Bonn, See also:Heidelberg and See also:Berlin, he entered thegovernment service, being stationed in his native See also:town. In 1864 he was chosen burgomaster of Neuwied; but he was already known for his Liberal opinions, and the See also:government refused to confirm the See also:appointment, He was hereupon transferred to See also:Bromberg, in See also:East See also:Prussia, which to an inhabitant of the See also:Rhine-See also:land was the worst See also:form of See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, and in consequence he resigned his See also:place in the public service. He now went to Berlin, where he earned hiS living as a journalist. He was the most consistent See also:advocate of those doctrines of laissez faire and individual See also:liberty which the Germans See also:call Manchestertum. He was also keenly interested in the attempts made at that See also:period to create co-operative See also:societies among, the working men, and wrote a See also:work on co-operative stores. It was not See also:long before he came into conflict with the government; an electioneering pamphlet published in 1867 was confiscated; he was put on his trial but acquitted. In 1867 he was elected a member of the newly formed Reichstag, and in 1869 of the Prussian See also:parliament. He soon became one of the most influential politicians in See also:Germany. A member of the Progressive party, in 188o one of the founders, and eventually the See also:leader, of the Freisinnige, he was always in opposition. Next to See also:Windthorst (q.v.) he was See also:Bismarck's most dangerous opponent. After the See also:great See also:change of policy in 1878, for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time his See also:influence was a great impediment to the government; as a consistent adherent to See also:free See also:trade, he was the leader of the opposition to the introduction of See also:protection, to the new colonial policy, and to See also:State See also:Socialism. It was after 188o that he raised the cry Bismarck muss fort. He always took a great See also: part in debates on the military and See also:naval establishments, in vain opposing the See also:constant increase of See also:army and See also:navy. It was his refusal to support the government proposals in 1893 for an increase of the army which led to the break up of his party: he was See also:left with only eleven followers; and, except among the See also:middle class of Berlin and some other Prussian cities, the old See also:Radical party, of which he was the See also:chief representative, from that time had little influence in the See also:country. In 1885 he founded the Freisinnige Zeitung,-which he edited himself; of his numerous brochures the most successful was his attack on Socialism, entitled Sozialdemokratische Zukunftsbilder (Berlin, 1891), a See also:clever and successful See also:satire on the Socialist state of the future. This has been translated into the See also:English. He also wrote much on Prussian See also:finance, and under the See also:title Das politische A, B, C See also:Buch compiled a very useful See also:political handbook for Radical voters. He also published in 1892 reminiscences of his youth (Jugenderinnerungen), and two volumes of See also:parliamentary reminiscences (lm See also:alten Reichstag, 1894–1896).
IHe died at See also:Jena on the 26th of See also:January e906.
End of Article: RICHTER, EUGEN (1839–1906)
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