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GEORG HEINRICH VON VOLLMAR (1850- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 196 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORG HEINRICH VON See also:

VOLLMAR (1850- )  , See also:German Socialist, was See also:born at See also:Munich in 1850 . He was educated in a school attached to a See also:Benedictine monastery at See also:Augsburg, and in 1865 entered the Bavarian See also:army as a See also:lieutenant in a See also:cavalry See also:regiment . He served in the See also:campaign of 1866, and then entered the papal army as a volunteer . In 1869 he returned to See also:Germany, and during the See also:war with See also:France served in the army railway See also:department . He was severely wounded at See also:Blois and pensioned . Permanently crippled by his wounds, he devoted himself to See also:political and social studies . In 1872 he was See also:con' verted to the principles of Social See also:Democracy, and threw himself with See also:great See also:energy into political agitation . In 1877 he became editor of the party See also:organ at See also:Dresden, and under the Socialist See also:law was repeatedly condemned to various terms of imprisonment, and was also expelled from that See also:city . From 1879 to 1882 he lived at See also:Zurich, then the headquarters of Social Democracy, when, besides attending the university, he took See also:part in editing the Social Demokrat . In 1881 he was elected member of the Reichstag, and from 1883 to 1889 was a member of the Saxon See also:diet . After 1885 he resided in See also:Bavaria, and it was to him that was chiefly due the great success of the Socialists in the older Bavarian provinces . He identified himself with the more moderate and opportunist See also:section of the Socialist party, decisively dissociating himself from the See also:doctrine of a sudden and violent overthrow of society, and urging his associates to co-operate in bringing about a See also:gradual development towards the Socialistic See also:state .

He refused to identify Social Democracy with the extreme views as to See also:

religion and the See also:family advocated by See also:Bebel, and successfully resisted attempts made in 1891 to expel him from the party in consequence of his opinions . He became a member of the Bavarian Diet in 1893 . In addition to a couple of books on the preservation of forests, he published Der isolierte Soziale Staat (Zurich, 1880) .

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