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Adolf Stoecker (December 11, 1835 – February 2, 1909) was a German court chaplain to Kaiser Wilhelm I, a politician, leading antisemite, and a Lutheran theologian who founded the Christian Social Party to lure members away from the Social Democratic Workers' Party.
Adolf Stoecker (born December 11, 1835, Halberstadt, Prussia [now in Germany]—died February 2, 1909, Bozen Gries, Germany) was a cleric, conservative politician, and reformer who founded the German Christian Social Party and promoted political anti-Semitism in Germany.
Adolf Stoecker war ein evangelischer deutscher Theologe und Politiker. Stoecker begründete mit den Christlich-Sozialen die sogenannte Berliner Bewegung, die rückwärtsgewandte mit modernen Elementen vereinte. Programmatisch trat sie auf einer protestantischen Grundlage antikapitalistisch, antiliberal und antisozialistisch auf, verknüpft ...
Learn about Adolf Stoecker, a court chaplain and the leader of the antisemitic Christian Social Party in Germany. See a woodcut of him from 1880 and read about his influence and legacy.
Jul 28, 2009 · Adolf Christian Stoecker (1835–1909) has been remembered as a court preacher in Berlin (1874–1890), the founder of the Christian Socialist Workers' Party in 1878, a conservative member of the Reichstag for most of the last thirty years of his life, an ardent nationalist, an early anti-Semitic voice, a prime mover in the Berlin City Mission, a pr...
Nov 12, 2008 · One of the most significant and earliest sources for galvanizing and articulating the frustrations of a disenchanted lower middle class, or “mittelstand,” was the Christian Social Workers party founded in 1878 by Adolf Stoecker the Kaiser's court chaplain.
This article challenges the traditional narrative of German anti-Semitism that portrays Stoecker as a moderate and non-racist leader. It argues that Stoecker's anti-Semitism was based on racial invective and that he influenced the German Evangelical Church and the Nazi movement.
