1914: Nyt runs article about passing away of Hermann Ahlwardt.
In the German Reichstag, he described Jews as "predators" and "cholera bacilli" that should be exterminated. The popularity of Ahlwardt and other "antisemites", in conservative rural electorates prompted the German Conservative Party to add an antisemitic plank to their 1892 Tivoli Congress platform.
In 1895, Ahlwardt was expelled from the German Social Reform Party and, with Otto Böckel, founded the Antisemitic People's Party, following in Adolf Stoecker's footsteps, who had founded the first antijew party in Germany in the 1880s.
Ahlwardt toured America giving speeches between 1895-1897. Picture is from Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography about his stop in NY.
