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August Bebel

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' Association into the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). During the repression under the terms of the Anti-Socialist Laws, Bebel became the leading figure of the social democratic movement in Germany and from 1892 until his death served as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

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August Bebel

Ferdinand August Bebel

(1840-02-22)22 February 1840
Deutz (Cologne), Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia

13 August 1913(1913-08-13) (aged 73)
Passug, Churwalden, Switzerland

  • SVP (1867–1869)
  • SDAP (1869–1875)
  • SAPD (1875–1890)
  • SDP (from 1890)

First International

Turner

Biography[edit]

Early years[edit]

Ferdinand August Bebel, known as August, was born on 22 February 1840, in Deutz, Germany, now a part of Cologne. He was the son of a Prussian noncommissioned officer in the Prussian infantry, initially from Ostrowo in the Province of Posen, and was born in military barracks.[1] The father died in 1844.

London: Reeves, 1885. US Edition: San Francisco: G. Benham, 1897.

Women in the Past, Present, and Future.

New York: New York Labor News Co., n.d. [c. 1899].

Assassinations and Socialism: From a Speech by August Bebel, Delivered at Berlin, November 2, 1898.

Beber. New York: International Publishers, 1901.

Socialism and the German Kaiser: Two Speeches. With Georg Heinrich von Vollmar. London: Clarion Press, 1903.

New York: New York Labor News Co., 1904. New translation: Women and Socialism. New York: Socialist Literature Co., 1910.

Women Under Socialism.

Trade Unions and Political Parties. Milwaukee: Social-Democratic Publishing Co., 1906.

New York: Socialist Literature Co., 1911.

Bebel's Reminiscences.

The Intellectual Ability of Women. New York: Cooperative Press, n.d. [c. 1912].

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.

My Life.

Speeches of August Bebel. New York: International Publishers, 1928.

. Moscow: Progress Publishers. 1976 (an abridged translation of the last part of Bebel's Women and Socialism).

Society of the Future

public square in Berlin named after August Bebel

Bebelplatz

at Project Gutenberg

Works by August Bebel

at Internet Archive

Works by or about August Bebel

. Retrieved 31 May 2007.

Biography of August Bebel

Marxists Internet Archive, www.marxists.org/ Retrieved 31 August 2010.

August Bebel Internet Archive

. The New Student's Reference Work . 1914.

"Bebel, Ferdinand August" 

: August Bebel and the political awakening of the working class, wsws.org Retrieved 28 August 2013.

Ulrich Rippert

Archive of at the International Institute of Social History

August Bebel Papers

in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Newspaper clippings about August Bebel