August Bebel: Leader of the German Working Class

August Bebel

German social democratic politician and labor movement leader. Together with Wilhelm Liebknecht, he founded the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) and played a crucial role in the subsequent establishment of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation from 1867 and the German Reichstag from 1871, becoming a parliamentary politician who represented the German labor movement for over 40 years. Supporting Marxism, he led the social democratic movement under repression during the period of the Anti-Socialist Laws. He also authored Woman and Socialism, which discussed women's rights, becoming one of the representative thinkers of socialist women's liberation theory.

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Year	August Bebel
1840	Birth of August Bebel (Period: February 22, 1840, Location: Cologne, Germany (then Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia))
1854	Apprenticeship as a Woodturner (Age: 13 years old, Period: 1854–1858, Location: Wetzlar, Germany)
1860	Life as an Artisan in Leipzig (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1860–1864, Location: Leipzig, Germany)
1861	Participation in the Leipzig Workers' Educational Society (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1861 – Early 1860s, Location: Leipzig, Germany) Political Activities in the Workers' Educational Society (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1861–1866, Location: Leipzig, Germany)
1863	Establishment of the Federation of German Workers' Associations (VDAV, Age: 23 years old, Period: June 1863, Location: Frankfurt, Germany)
1866	Austro-Prussian War (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1866, Location: German States, Bohemia, Austria, etc.) Establishment of the Saxon People's Party (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1866, Location: Saxony, Germany) Marriage (August Bebel, Johanna Carolina Henrietta Otto, Age: 25 years old, Period: 1866, Location: Germany)
1867	First Election as Member of the North German Reichstag (August Bebel, Age: 26 years old, Period: 1867, Location: Glauchau-Meerane Electoral District, North German Confederation)
1869	Establishment of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP, Age: 29 years old, Period: August 7–9, 1869, Location: Eisenach, Germany) Establishment of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (Age: 29 years old, Period: August 7–9, 1869, Location: Eisenach, Germany)
1870	Franco-Prussian War (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1870–1871, Location: France, Germany, etc.) Opposition to the Franco-Prussian War (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1870–1871, Location: German Reichstag and German Empire)
1871	Leipzig High Treason Trial (Age: 31 years old, Period: December 1871 – 1872, Location: Leipzig, Germany)
1872	Fortress Imprisonment and Prison Studies (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1872–1874, Location: Hubertusburg, Germany)
1875	Establishment of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (Age: 35 years old, Period: May 1875, Location: Gotha, Germany)
1878	Enactment of the Anti-Socialist Laws (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1878–1890, Location: German Empire) Party Leadership under the Anti-Socialist Laws (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1878–1890, Location: German Empire and Zurich, Switzerland etc.)
1879	Publication of Woman and Socialism (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1879, Location: Germany)
1880	Wieden Party Congress (Age: 40 years old, Period: August 1880, Location: Wieden, Switzerland)
1890	Expiration of the Anti-Socialist Laws and Reorganization into the SPD (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1890–1891, Location: Halle and Erfurt, Germany) Transition of the SPD into a Mass Party (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1890–1891, Location: Halle and Erfurt, Germany) Response to the Revisionism Debate (Age: 49 years old, Period: Late 1890s – 1903, Location: Hannover and Dresden, Germany etc.)
1898	Support for Homosexual Emancipation (Age: 57 years old, Period: January 13, 1898, Location: Reichstag, Berlin, German Empire)
1900	Military Tensions in Europe Prior to World War I (Age: 59 years old, Period: 1900s–1913, Location: Germany and European Countries)
1905	SPD Mass Strike Debate over the Russian Revolution (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1905–1906, Location: Jena and Mannheim, Germany)
1912	Emergence of the SPD as the Largest Party (Age: 71 years old, Period: 1912, Location: Reichstag, German Empire)
1913	Death of August Bebel (Age: 73 years old, Period: August 13, 1913) Death and International Funeral (Age: 73 years old, Period: August 13, 1913, Location: Passugg and Zurich, Switzerland)

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liberalism	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Ernst Moritz Arndt Friedrich Ludwig Weidig Georg Büchner Friedrich Hecker Gustav Struve Robert Blum
German Empire	Otto von Bismarck Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Helmuth von Moltke Albrecht von Roon Albrecht von Bismarck Friedrich Wilhelm IV Friedrich III Leo von Caprivi
Musical Revolution	Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Johannes Brahms Felix Mendelssohn Robert Alexander Schumann Richard Wagner Anton Bruckner Johann Baptist Strauss
Marxism	Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Ferdinand Lassalle August Bebel Eduard Bernstein Wilhelm Liebknecht Clara Zetkin

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