DELBRUCK, MARTIN FRIEDRICH RUDOLF VON

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DELBRUCK, MARTIN FRIEDRICH RUDOLF VON , Prussian statesman (18171903), was born at Berlin on the 16th of April 1817. On completing his legal studies he entered the service of the state in 1837; and after holding a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

minor

postswas transferred in 1848 to the ministry of commerce, which was to be the sphere of his real life's

work

WORK

. Both Germany and Austria had realized the influence of commercial upon political union. Delbriick in 1851 induced Hanover, Oldenburg and Schaumburg-Lippe to join the Zollverein; and the southern states, which had
agreed to admit Austria to the union, found themselves forced in 1853 to renew the old union, from which Austria was excluded. Delbrick now began, with the support of Bismarck, to apply the principles of free

trade

to Prussian fiscal policy. In 1862 he concluded an important commercial treaty with France. In 1867 he became the first president of the chancery of the North German Confederation, and represented Bismarck on the federal tariff council (Zollbundesrath), a position of political as well as fiscal importance owing to the presence in the council of representatives of the southern states. In 1868 he became a Prussian minister without portfolio. In October 187o, when the union of Germany under Prussian headship became a

practical

PRACTICAL

question, Delbruck was chosen to go on a mission to the

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

German states, and contributed greatly to the agreements concluded at

Versailles

VERSAILLES

in November. In 1871 he became president of the newly constituted Reichskanzleramt. Delbruck, however, began to feel himself uneasy under Bismarck's leanings towards

protection

PROTECTION

and state

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

. On the introduction of Bismarck's plan for the acquisition of the railways by the state, Delbruck resigned office, nominally on the ground of ill-health (June 1, 1876). In 1899 he opposed in' the Reichstag the new protectionist tariff, and on the failure of his efforts retired definitely from public life. In 1896 he received from the emperor the order of the Black Eagle. He died at Berlin on the 1st of February 1903.

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