An unemployed tinsmith, Emil Max Hödel, tries …
Years: 1878 - 1878
May
An unemployed tinsmith, Emil Max Hödel, tries to assassinate the German Emperor on May 11.
Nine days later, Bismarck introduces in the Reichstag a law for the suppression of socialist meetings, clubs, and publications, but the Reichstag defeats the Bismarck law on May 24 by a vote of 251 to 57.
