Paul Eltzbacher
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Paul Eltzbacher, (February 18, 1868 in Cologne to October 25, 1928 in Berlin), was a German lawyer and legal mind.
From 1890 to 1895 he was a junior lawyer for the regional court districts of Cologne and Frankfurt (Germany), with a year off in 1891-92 for military service. By 1899 he had attained his doctorate and set about writing a treatise upon the subject of anarchism, for which he was made a professor in 1906. After this point he limited his opinions to the area of civil rights with respect to commercial law. However, it is for his earlier writings upon the subject of anarchism that he is known today.
Eltzbacher is often considered to be a forerunner of National Bolshevism as he reacted to what he saw as the humiliation for Germany of the Treaty of Versailles by suggesting that the country's interests would be better served by a closer alliance with the Soviet Union. As a nationalist member of the Reichstag, Eltzbacher argued in April 1919 for complete state ownership without compensation. The Deutsche Tageszeitung newspaper dubbed Eltzbacher's new theory as 'nationaler Bolschewismus', although he did not adopt the term himself.
[edit] Books
- The Great Anarchists: Ideas and Teachings of Seven Major Thinkers, ISBN 0-486-43632-2
- Anarchism, ISBN 0-912378-01-8
- Anarkhizm, (German) ISBN 0-657-09099-9
