Konrad Haenisch

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Konrad Haenisch (13 March, 1876 - 28 April, 1925) was a German Social Democratic Party politician. Friend and follower (Parvulus in his own words) of Alexander Parvus. Haenisch was against the First World War in 1914 but subsequently supported it. In a speech given to the 1916 SDP conference he remembered the 'August enthusiasm':

The conflict of two souls in one breast was probably easy for none of us. [It lasted] until suddenly—I shall never forget the day and hour—the terrible tension was resolved; until one dared to be what one was; until—despite all principles and wooden theories—one could, for the first time in almost a quarter century, join with a full heart, a clean conscience and without a sense of treason in the sweeping, stormy song: "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles".^[1]

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1. ^ Carl Schorske, German Social Democracy 1905-1917. The Development of the Great Schism (Cambridge University Press, 1955), p. 290.