Ferdinand August Bebel was a German Socialist. He was born in 1840. He became a master turner in Leipzig, was elected to the Reichstag or diet of the new German Empire in 1871, in which was prominent almost ever since. He opposed the leadership of Prussia in Germany and the establishment of the empire, and showed himself favourable to the Paris Commune and the International. Found guilty of treasonable practices, he was condemned to two years' imprisonment in a fortress in 1872, with six months' imprisonment for insulting the German Emperor, and he also underwent imprisonment afterwards; but his influence still kept increasing as leader of the Social Democrats in Germany and in the German parliament, where he spoke strongly against militarism and the emperor's naval policy. He was the author of various works, in one of them, Die Frau und der Socialismus (Woman and Socialism), going so far as to attack marriage as an institution. Research Ferdinand Bebel
The Probert Encyclopaedia was designed, edited and programed by
Matt and Leela Probert
Abbreviations
Research Reichstag
