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KARL VON CRAMER (1818—r9o2)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRAMER (1818—r9o2)  , Bavarian politician, had a very remarkable career, rising gradually from a See also:mere workman in a factory at Doos near See also:Nuremberg to the See also:post of manager, and finally becoming See also:part proprietor of the See also:establishment . Leaving business in 187o he devoted his See also:time entirely to politics . From 1848 he had been a member of the Bavarian second chamber, at first representing the See also:district of See also:Erlangen-See also:Furth, and after-wards Nuremberg, which See also:city also sent him after the See also:war of 1866 as its See also:deputy to the See also:German customs See also:parliament, and from 1871 to 1874 to the first German Reichstag . He sat in these bodies as a member of the Progressive party (Fortschrittspartei), and in See also:Bavaria was one of the leaders of the Liberal (Freisinnige) party . His eloquence had a See also:great hold upon the masses . As a parliamentarian he was very clear-headed, and thoroughly understood how to See also:lead a party . For many years he was the reporter of the See also:finance See also:committee of the chamber . In 1882, on See also:account of his great services in connexion with the Bavarian See also:National See also:Exhibition of Nuremberg, the See also:order of the See also:crown of Bavaria was conferred upon him, carrying with it the See also:honour of See also:nobility . He died at Nuremberg on the 31st of See also:December 1902 .

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