Lothar Bucher

Adolf Lothar Bucher ( born October 25, 1817 in Pommern, † October 12, 1892 in Glion ( Switzerland ) ) was a Prussian civil servant, journalist and politician. During the Revolution of 1848/ 49, he was on the side of the left, rose in exile temporarily on a widely read journalist and later became a close associate of Otto von Bismarck

Life and work

Bucher was the son of school teacher and author of geographical writings August Leopold Bucher. He studied law in Berlin. Since 1838 he was employed at the High Court in Koszalin. In 1843, Bucher was Assessor at City and District Court in Stolp.

In 1848 he was elected to the Prussian National Assembly. He stood there near the left and carried in protest against the counter-revolution to the tax resistance with decision. In 1849 he was elected to the second chamber of the Prussian Landtag. There he played a leading role in the lifting of martial law, which resulted in the dissolution of the Chamber. Bucher was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment and the loss of all offices for its support of tax resistance Decision.

In order to escape the prison, he went into exile in London in 1850. There he worked as a journalist. Among other things, he worked as a correspondent for the National newspaper. In his time in London Bucher wrote over 3000 correspondent reports for the newspaper and became one of the most popular journalists of the paper, which was read by Frederick William IV and political opponents. In particular, his reports of the Great Exhibition of 1851 were very successful. In a book " The parliamentary system as it is ," he criticized in 1855 the British parliamentary system. Thus, the mandate for the deputies was more devoted to the representation of their own interests. The criticism was indirectly but also against the political opposition in Germany, which was partly inspired by the British model. In the following years, therefore, the journalistic star Bucher began to decline.

In 1861, an amnesty Bucher allowed to return to Germany. There he first worked in the Wolff Telegraph office. His criticism of the founding of the National Association led to the alienation of the democratic movement. However, he was in close contact with Ferdinand Lassalle. Although books and Lassalle hardly had political similarities, Bucher was editor of several writings of Lassalle. This also made ​​him one of his executors, and left him a pension.

In 1864, Bismarck took him to the Foreign Ministry. There he rose to 1866 for lecturers advice. Bucher was one of Bismarck's closest confidants. So he wrote along with several other high-ranking officials, the first designs for the organization and constitution of the North German Confederation. On the eve of the Franco-German war, when the candidacy of a Hohenzollern to the Spanish throne decency, bird on a diplomatic mission in Madrid was. He dictated the Bismarck fashioned Ems Dispatch. After the French declaration of war, Bucher was pleased with the success of Bismarck's policy that made France appear as the real aggressor.

After the Empire Bucher was appointed Privy Councillor of Legation and lecturers Council in the Foreign Office of the empire. Until the late 1870s, he was in the inner environment of Bismarck. So Bucher was also involved in the Berlin Congress. This changed from time to time, as Bucher 1878, the task was to deliver a draft of the planned socialist law. In the ensuing debate on the bill Karl Marx Bucher made ​​prior contact with him and his brokerage activities publicized in the talks between Bismarck and Lassalle. These reports led to Bucher increasingly became the political sidelines.

In 1886 he retired. Later Bucher was but after Bismarck's dismissal in 1890 his personal adviser. At Bismarck's autobiography thoughts and memories Bucher was instrumental.

Works

• Cultural and historical sketches of the Industrial Exhibition of all nations. Frankfurt 1851
• The parliamentary system as it is. Berlin 1855
• Images from the stranger. drawn for the home. Vol 1 Move. Berlin 1862
• Images from the stranger. drawn for the home. Vol 2 The London Industrial Exhibition. Berlin 1863
• Prussia's ancient right of Schleswig -Holstein. Berlin 1865
• What else? A German program. In: Carl Rodbertus - Jagetzow: Kleine Schriften, Berlin, 1890, pp. 316 ff
• Small fonts political content, Stuttgart 1893