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Bismarck's Social Insurance: The German Welfare State
In this episode of The History of Germany, Lucas and Luna explore Otto von Bismarck's unexpected introduction of the world's first modern social insurance system. After unifying Germany, the Iron Chancellor implemented health, accident, and old-age insurance to undercut the growing Socialist Workers' Party. We discuss the 1881 Imperial Message, the Reichstag debates, the Sickness Insurance Law of 1883, the Accident Insurance Law of 1884, and the Old Age and Disability Insurance Law of 1889. We also examine how Bismarck's state socialism aimed to 'buy off' the…
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