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221.	Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg, Address to his Employees (c. 1889) Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg (1836-1901), a steel magnate and Free Conservative member....
222.	Lifestyle and Expenditures of a Public Servant's Family in Berlin (1889) In Imperial German society, higher public servants enjoyed considerable (and probably increasing) esteem. But frequently their incomes did not keep pace with what was required to maintain a standard....
223.	Police Reports on Strikebreaking and Workplace Conflict in Hamburg (1889) Towards the end of the Bismarckian era, labor relations deteriorated and workplace conflict escalated into a number of large-scale strikes. As the following excerpt from a report about strikebreaking....
224.	The Hunt for Decorations and Titles (January 7, 1889) In many of his writings, the well-known novelist and poet Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) proved a critical....
225.	August Bebel’s Reichstag Speech against Colonial Policy in German East Africa (January 26, 1889) In February 1885, the German colonial adventurer Carl Peters (1856-1918) had received a Royal....
226.	Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Royal Decree on Reformed School Instruction as a Means to Combat Social Democracy (May 1, 1889) This Royal Decree [kaiserlicher Erlaß] was issued by Kaiser Wilhelm II when he had been German emperor for less than a year. It postulates the political education of elementary school pupils....
227.	Reasons to Forego a Performance of Wagner’s Parsifal at Bayreuth (July 23, 1889) The novelist Theodor Fontane (1819-1898), regarded by many as the most important German-language....
228.	Gerhart Hauptmann, Before Daybreak, First Performed to a Scandalized Reception (October 20, 1889) The German writer and dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) was one of the chief representatives of the Naturalist movement. In 1912, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His first drama,....
229.	A Young Berlin Noblewoman Recalls a House Ball, Skating, and Bicycling (c. 1890) German aristocrats did not eke out a meager living, as did most workers, nor did they have....
230.	Catholic and Protestant Girls’ Schooling (late 1880s-1890s) While higher secondary education for boys was designed as preparation for university studies (to which women in Germany were only admitted in the early twentieth century), girls’ schooling usually....
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