Gerhard Hildebrand was a German

Germans

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 journalist

Journalist

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 and from 1903 on member of the Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party of Germany

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. His main work was the book The concussion of the industrial dominion and of the industrial socialism, published in 1910, where he doubted that an economy should be socialised completely. He emphasized the importance of agricultural production in the book, and promoted the acquisition of colonies

Colony

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. This was straight against the than strictly socialist and anti-imperialistic

Imperialism

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 policy of the Social Democratic Party, and so he was excluded from the party on a convention in Chemnitz

Chemnitz

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 on 16 September 1912. The reason for exclusion was called heavy violation of the basic principles of the party platform. He was defended by major right wing Social Democrats like Eduard Bernstein

Eduard Bernstein

Eduard Bernstein was a German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the SPD, and the founder of evolutionary socialism and revisionism.- Life :...

 and Wolfgang Heine, but the conventions majority voted against Hildebrand. Hildebrand said, he would stay being a Social Democrat and went on promoting his ideas.

Works

• Die Erschütterung der Industrieherrschaft und des Industriesozialismus. Jena, Fischer 1910
• Sozialistische Auslandspolitik: Betrachtungen über die weltpolitische Lage anlässlich des Marokko-Streites. Jena, Diederichs 1911
• Die Befreiung des Arbeiters und der Arbeit. Berlin 1920

Articles

• Was ist Kolonisation? in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 13 = 15(1909), Heft 1, S. 31 - 36
• Vorfragen der Kolonisation. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 13 = 15(1909), Heft 6, S. 352 - 356
• Weltpolitische Bilanz. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 13 = 15(1909), Heft 11, S. [683] - 688
• Koloniale Vergleiche. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 13 = 15(1909), Heft 15, S. 949 - 954
• Das tropische Afrika in der Weltwirtschaft. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 13 = 15(1909), Heft 21, S. 1358 - 1364
• Weisse Siedelung in Tropenländern. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 14 = 16(1910), Heft 3, S. 162 - 168
• Kolonisation und Kultur. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 14 = 16(1910), Heft 5, S. 293 - 302
• Australasiatische Rätsel. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 14 = 16(1910), Heft 9, S. 555 - 564
• Die Baumwollfrage. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 14 = 16(1910), Heft 10, S. 627 - 635
• Afrikanische Baumwolle. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 14 = 16(1910), Heft 12, S. 742 - 750
• Die Abänderung von Parteitagsbeschlüssen. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 14 = 16(1910), Heft 19/20, S. 1238 - 1244
• Die Entwickelung Persiens und das Interesse der deutschen Arbeiterklasse. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 14 = 16(1910), Heft 23, S. [1473] - 1478
• Die Weiterentwickelung der deutschen Einfuhr und ihre Bedeutung. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 15 = 17(1911), Heft 1, S. 28 - 33
• Der Aufschwung der russischen Industrie. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 15 = 17(1911), Heft 2, S. 106 - 114
• Was bedeutet das kanadisch-nordamerikanische Handelsabkommen?. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 15 = 17(1911), Heft 4, S. 232 - 240
• Zwischen Amerika und England. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 15 = 17(1911), Heft 6, S. 372 - 381
• Sozialismus, sittliches Bewusstsein und Religion. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 15 = 17(1911), Heft 10, S. 627 - 636
• Die britische Reichskonferenz. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 15 = 17(1911), Heft 13, S. 832 - 841
• Die deutschen Interessen im Ausland. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 15 = 17(1911), Heft 18/20, S. 1218 - 1225
• Wegen groben Verstosses gegen die Grundsätze des Parteiprogramms. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 16 = 18(1912), Heft 9, S. [523] - 531
• Die Entfaltung der Produktivkräfte als Angelpunkt sozialdemokratischer Politik. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 16 = 18(1912), Heft 11, S. 661 - 675
• Warum ich Sozialdemokrat bin und bleibe. in: Sozialistische Monatshefte, 16 = 18(1912), Heft 21, S. 1282 - 1289

External links

• Digitalised articles by Gerhard Hildebrand