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- He was the leader of the free traders, and after 1878 refused to follow Bismarck in his new policy of protection, state socialism and colonial development. On account of his opposition to Bismarck's economic policy, he left the National Liberal Party and joined the “ Secessionists ” which later merged into the German Free-minded Party.
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On account of his opposition to Bismarck's economic policy, he left the National Liberal Party and joined the “ Secessionists ” which later merged into the German Free-minded Party. He was also a founder of the Verein zur Förderung der Handelsfreiheit (Group for the Promotion of Free Trade).
From 1881 on, Bamberger’s response to it took three directions: to try to organize a great liberal party, a task in which he never seemed to have much faith; to defend the achievements of the 1870.s against state intervention and regulation; and to act as a critic of German society.
- Stanley Zucker
Events in Germany in the 1860s, the national unification movement that Bamberger himself had passionately advocated, and the liberal change of course in Prussia meant that he was considering returning from exile permanently.
In 1880 Bamberger left the National Liberal Party and helped to found the splinter party called the Sezession. For some years afterward he was the trusted adviser of the crown princess Victoria (wife of the future German emperor Frederick III ).
During the 1848 revolution Bamberger was a leader of the Republican party in Mainz and in 1849 he continued to campaign in the Palatinate and Baden, for which he was condemned to death, despite escaping to Switzerland.
He joined the revolutionary movement of 1848 and edited the republican newspaper Mainzer Zeitung which advocated the unification of Germany and democratic government. He took part in the insurrection of 1849, fled to Switzerland, and was condemned to death in absentia.
Bamberger was one of the new monarch’s close advisers, and he shared the hope of other left-liberals that Friedrich’s reign would introduce liberal reforms and democratization. But Bismarck’s long history of dominating Wilhelm I, in combination with Bamberger’s knowledge of the new Kaiser’s terminal cancer, left him justly skeptical ...
