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Ferdinand August Bebel (German pronunciation: [aʊ̯ˈɡʊst ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbeːbl̩]; 22 February 1840 – 13 August 1913) was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1869, which in 1875 merged with the General German Workers ...
August Bebel was a German Socialist, cofounder of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany and its most influential and popular leader for more than 40 years. He is one of the leading figures in the history of western European socialism. Bebel was the son of a Prussian noncommissioned officer.
August Bebel (1840-1913) was one of the most influential leaders of German and international socialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, who fought for social justice and women’s liberation.
August Bebel, (born Feb. 22, 1840, Deutz, near Cologne, Ger.—died Aug. 13, 1913, Passugg, Switz.), German socialist and writer. A turner by trade, Bebel joined the Leipzig Workers’ Educational Association (1861) and became its chairman (1865).
Who was August Bebel? Prominent German socialist August Bebel (1840-1913) was a founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party. He championed the cause of workers both as a political leader and as a writer of socialist non-fiction polemics.
Ferdinand August Bebel was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1869, which in 1875 merged with the General German Workers' Association into the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD).
August Bebel was cofounder (with Wilhelm Liebknecht [1826–1900]) and longtime leader of the German socialist movement in the years before 1914. Given his origins in a Saxon working-class family, he was unusual among prominent figures in the German movement, who were mostly from middle-class families.
Before the First World War, August Bebel (1840-1913) was the charismatic leader of the largest socialist party in Germany, Europe, and the world.
Bebel was an internationalist who had played a decisive part in founding the Second International in 1889. At his last national election in 1912 the SPD gained 34.8 per cent of the vote, the largest of any party.
May 31, 2019 · Jürgen Schmidt’s compact and engaging biography of August Bebel offers both an illuminating portrait of the man himself and a thumbnail sketch of the development of the German labour movement from the 1860s to the eve of the First World War.
