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Christian Social Party
political party, Germany
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establishment by Stoecker
- In Adolf Stoecker
…Workers’ Party (1878)—later renamed the Christian Social Party (1881). Although failing in its appeal to the workers, the party attracted a considerable following among the Berlin lower-middle classes because of its founder’s espousal of anti-Semitism. As a member of the Reichstag (national parliament) in 1881–93 and 1898–1908, he sought to…
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