BUCHER, LOTHAR (18171892)

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BUCHER, LOTHAR (18171892) , German publicist, was born on the 25th of October 1817 at Neu Stettin, in Pomerania, his father being master at a gymnasium. After studying at the university of Berlin he adopted the legal profession. Elected a member of the National Assembly in Berlin in 1848, he was an active leader of the extreme democratic party. With others of his colleagues he was in 185o brought to trial for having taken part in organizing a

movement

MOVEMENT

for refusal to pay taxes; he was condemned to fifteen months' imprisonment in a fortress, but left the country before the sentence was executed. For ten years he lived in

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

, chiefly in London; he acted as

special

SPECIAL

correspondent of the National Zeitung, and gained a

great

GREAT

knowledge of English life; and he published a

work

WORK

, Der Parliamentarismus wie er ist, a criticism of parliamentary government, which shows a marked

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

in his political opinions. In 186o he returned to Germany, and became intimate with Lassalle, who made him his literary executor. In 1864 he was offered by Bismarck, and accepted, a high position in the Prussian foreign office. The reasons that led him to a step which involved so complete a break with his earlier friends and associations are not clearly known. From this time till his death he acted as Bismarck's secretary, and was the man who probably enjoyed the greatest
amount of his confidence. It was he who drew up the text of the constitution of the North German Confederation; in 187o he was sent on a very confidential mission to Spain in connexion with the Hohenzollern candidature for the Spanish crown; he assisted Bismarck at the final negotiations for the treaty of Frankfort, and was one of the secretaries to the congress of Berlin; he also assisted Bismarck in the composition of his memoirs. Bucher, who was a man of

great

GREAT

ability, had considerable influence, which was especially directed against the economic doctrines of the Liberals; in 1881 he published a pamphlet criticizing the influence and principles of the Cobden Club. He identified him-self completely with Bismarck's later commercial and colonial policy, and probably had much to do with introducing it, and he did much to encourage

anti

ANTI, or CAMPA

-British feeling in Germany. He died at Glion, in Switzerland, on the 12th of October 1892.
See Heinrich v. Poschinger, Fin 48er: Lothar Buchers Leben and Werke (3 vols., Berlin, 189o) ; Busch, Bismarck: some

Secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

Pages of his History (London, 1898). (J. W. HE.)

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