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HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013. Lecture Eight: The Kulturkampf and Social Integration. Cultural and Religious Division in Germany. Bismarck’s Vision of Unity under Prussia Rudolf Virchow and Protestant Attitudes Towards Catholicism The Perceived Threat of Ultramontanism
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HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2013 Lecture Eight: The Kulturkampf and Social Integration
Cultural and Religious Division in Germany • Bismarck’s Vision of Unity under Prussia • Rudolf Virchow and Protestant Attitudes Towards Catholicism • The Perceived Threat of Ultramontanism • Papacy of Piux IX • Windthorst and the Rise of the Center Party
Steps to Suppression of Catholic Culture • Pulpit Paragraph 1871 • Adalbert Falk -- May Laws 1873 • Papal Encyclical of 1875 • Center Party and Catholic Faith
Second Thoughts on Catholic Repression • Liberal Backlash • Catholic Labor Movement • Negotiations with Windthorst • Death of Pius IX
Reichsfeinde/Reichsfreunde • Kulturkampf as Expression of Bismarck’s Divide and Conquer Strategy • Other Scapegoats • Adolf Stoecker – Christian Social Party • Agricultural Cooperative Movement
The Growing Problem of the Working Class • Lassalle and Bismarck • Lassalleans vs. Eisenachers • Liebknecht and Bebel • Creation of Social Democratic Party (SPD) 1875 • Socialist Propaganda: Vorwarts • Assassination Attempt on William I
The Habsburg Monarchy after 1866 • The Ausgleich of 1867 • Nature of the Dual Monarchy • German-Austrian Alliance • Austria’s Continuing Nationalism Problem