533:. Election to the assembly took place through a far more democratic election than any that had gone before. Even women were permitted to vote, and for both sexes the minimum voting age was reduced to 20. As part of his own election campaign Reißhaus distributed a leaflet with a characteristically defiant message: "...accordingly, the National Assembly will have a composition that will hold back all capitalist and reactionary pressures. The old capitalist tyranny is defeated for good". In the event, things did not quite turn out that way.
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have been following since 4 August 1914 .... The former majority wanted to direct the party towards socialist reform. That is the clear and simple objective of the majority of representatives .... Getting rid of the capitalist social order was the defining goal of the old Social
Democratic Party. Now they just want a seat at the table of government."
338:. One of those seats was nevertheless won by Paul Reißhaus, who was thereby the first Social Democrat from Erfurt to secure election to the parliament. His election leaflets proclaimed, "Down with the Cartel! - the oppressors of the people, the food-price manipulators". From June 1893 to January 1907, and then again from January 1912 until the
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555:. In June 1920 Paul Reißhaus again secured election as SPD member representing Thuringia. However, he died on 21 September 1921. He was absent from the first Reichstag sitting of 24 June 1920, and there is no mention in the minutes of his having spoken in the new Reichstag. His party colleague
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January 1917 he gave a speech in Erfurt setting out his vision for the party and criticising the leadership: "The underlying cause of these splits is the overall political strategy which representatives of the party majority
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nearly thirty years earlier meant that his socialist credentials were still in good order: he carried considerable authority, and there are indications that it was as a result of his involvement and leadership that the city was spared much of the internecine violence that accompanied the
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