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  1. 1907 German federal election

    Historical event

    Federal elections were held in Germany on 25 January 1907. Despite the Social Democratic Party receiving a clear plurality of votes, they were hampered by the unequal constituency sizes that favoured rural seats. As a result, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 101 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won only 43. Voter turnout was 84.7%. This election was known as the "Hottentot Election" due to the scandal over the ongoing genocide of the Khoisan people in German South West Africa. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The election became known as the "Hottentot Election", because its causes and its campaign were dominated by the Herero and Nama genocide in the colony of German South West Africa. The Nama were referred to as "Hottentots", a term that was derogatory even at the time. The sustained and increasingly expensive colonial war led to a ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    25 January - The 'Hottentot election', so called because of the nationalist atmosphere whipped up during the campaign, sees the Social Democratic Party of Germany gain half a million votes and yet lose half of their seats. [1]May - A separate Imperial Colonial Office is set up distinct from the Auswärtiges Amt. [1]15 July - An experimental train is reported to reach 81 mph and reach 98 ...
  4. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. This chapter examines how the Hottentot elections had made German colonial policy into an important political issue for workers. Colonialism might have made headlines, filled newspaper columns and public meetings, and pulled thousands of new working-class voters into the electoral process, but it was really only the scale of the working-class response that was new in this case.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Hottentot originated among the "old Dutch" settlers of the Dutch Cape Colony run by United East India Company (), who arrived in the region in the 1650s, [3] and it entered English usage from Dutch in the seventeenth century. [4] However, no definitive Dutch etymology for the term is known. A widely claimed etymology is from a supposed Dutch expression equivalent to "stammerer, stutterer ...
  6. The Reichstag was dissolved; the new election was named the "Hottentot Election" after the erroneous designation of the Nama as such. Little did it matter that the SPD won a great victory in the number of votes; in the number of seats, the "Bülow-Block"—named after the Reich Chancellor—strengthened its position, and voted to fund ...
  7. sealionpress.co.uk

    The Hottentot Election was therefore a genuine chance for the German people to give their views on the atrocities being committed in their name. Their verdict was mixed. Bebel and Ledebour's SPD won the most votes, around 29%, and actually gained votes compared to 1903 (though their vote percentage decreased slightly as more men voted in total ...
  8. books.google.com

    The German SOcial Democrats and the "Hottentot" Election of 1907. Werner Goldsmith. 1958 - 83 pages. Bibliographic information. Title: The German SOcial Democrats and the "Hottentot" Election of 1907: Author: Werner Goldsmith: Published: 1958: Length: 83 pages : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan:
  9. semanticscholar.org

    This chapter provides an overview of the capitalist drive to the colonies before the Hottentot elections. The drive to expand Germany's naval power and colonies has already stood at the foreground of German colonial policy for several years. Reviewing Parvus's book in 1907, Rudolf Hilferding spoke of it as an "important contribution" to understanding the "driving factors" behind German ...
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