Lothar Bucher

German publicist
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Also known as: Adolf Lothar Bucher
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In full:
Adolf Lothar Bucher
Born:
October 25, 1817, Neustettin, Pomerania [now Szczecinek, Poland]
Died:
October 10, 1892, Glion, Switzerland (aged 74)

Lothar Bucher (born October 25, 1817, Neustettin, Pomerania [now Szczecinek, Poland]—died October 10, 1892, Glion, Switzerland) was a German publicist and one of the most trusted aides of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. He collaborated in writing Bismarck’s memoirs, Gedanken und Erinnerungen (1898; Reflections and Reminiscences). Bucher was a member of the Prussian National Assembly (1848) and of the Prussian second chamber (1849), in which he sat with the extreme left. In 1850 he was sentenced to a 15-month prison term for organizing a movement against the payment of taxes, but he fled to London and wrote for the ...(100 of 225 words)