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MARTIN FRIEDRICH RUDOLF VON DELBRUCK

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTIN FRIEDRICH RUDOLF VON DELBRUCK  , Prussian statesman (1817—1903), was born at Berlin on the 16th of
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April 1817 . On completing his legal studies he entered the service of the state in 1837; and after holding a series of minor postswas transferred in 1848 to the
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ministry of commerce, which was to be the sphere of his real
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life's
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work . Both Germany and Austria had realized the influence of commercial upon
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political union . Delbriick in 1851 induced Hanover,
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Oldenburg and Schaumburg-
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Lippe to join the Zollverein; and the
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southern states, which had agreed to admit Austria to the union, found themselves forced in 1853 to renew the old union, from which Austria was excluded . Delbrick now began, with the support of Bismarck, to apply the principles of
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free trade to Prussian fiscal policy . In 1862 he concluded an important commercial treaty with France . In 1867 he became the first president of the
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chancery of the North German Confederation, and represented Bismarck on the federal tariff council (Zollbundesrath), a position of political as well as fiscal importance owing to the presence in the council of representatives of the southern states . In 1868 he became a Prussian minister without portfolio . In
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October 187o, when the union of Germany under Prussian headship became a
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practical question, Delbruck was chosen to go on a
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mission to the South German states, and contributed greatly to the agreements concluded at
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Versailles in November . In 1871 he became president of the newly constituted Reichskanzleramt . Delbruck, however, began to feel himself uneasy under Bismarck's leanings towards
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protection and state control . On the introduction of Bismarck's plan for the acquisition of the
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railways by the state, Delbruck resigned office, nominally on the ground of
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ill-
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health (
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June 1, 1876) .

In 1899 he opposed in' the Reichstag the new protectionist tariff, and on the failure of his efforts retired definitely from public life . In 1896 he received from the

emperor the order of the Black Eagle . He died at Berlin on the 1st of
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February 1903 .

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