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with a focus on tobacco products. According to biographical information shared later in the âAmtliches
Reichstags-Handbuchâ by the parliamentary authorities, August Dreesbach was the proprietor of a shop selling colonial goods, tobacco products and cigars/cigarettes between 1878 and 1897.
449:. It was not unusual, at that time, to serve as a member of the Baden StÀndeversammlung and of the imperial parliament in Berlin simultaneously. Nevertheless, in 1903 Dreesbach resigned his membership of the state parliament in order to concentrate his time and energies nationally, on his
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for cremation and memorialising. An estimated 30,000 people took part in the funeral ceremonial, indicating that among the politically aware citizens of
Mannhaim, and among socialist politicians across Germany, the scale of Dreesbach's contribution was well appreciated.
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in Munich one hundred years after the death of its name giver. In naming her business, the director proprietor paid tribute to the âintegrity and steadfastness in support of his beliefsâ for which August
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parliamentary representation would correspond approximately to the party's level of electoral support, whether in the national
Reichstag or in the state-level Landtage. After he died his body was brought home to
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shop owner, concentrating on cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products, who became a political agitator and then a politician, a political journalist and a pioneer of what became the country's
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970:. Vol. 1. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin & Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (HiKo), MĂŒnchen. p. 623.
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passed by the government in Berlin during and after 1878.
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856:. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MĂŒnchen. 1890. p. 162
708:. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MĂŒnchen. 1903. p. 209
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