Max Hödel
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Emil Max Hödel (1857– August 16, 1878) was a plumber from Leipzig, Germany who became known for a failed assassination. A former member of the Leipzig Social-Democratic Association, he was expelled from the organization in the 1870s [link] and eventually became involved in anarchism.
Hödel used a revolver to shoot at the 82-year-old Wilhelm I of Germany on May 11, 1878, while he and his daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden paraded in their carage. When the bullet missed, Hödel ran across the street and fired another round, which also missed. In the commotion that ensued, one of the individuals who tried to apprehend Hödel suffered such severe internal injuries, he died two days later.
The State convicted Hödel after a photographer who took the radical’s picture days before the attentat testified that after he took the picture Hödel said it would sell thousands once a certain piece of information [was] hashed through the world.
Hödel was beheaded on August 16, 1878.
Despite the fact that Hödel had been expelled from the Social Democratic Party, his actions were used as a pretext to ban the party through the Anti-Socialist Law in October 1878.
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