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Courtesy of Wikipedia Ferdinand Lassalle Ferdinand Lassalle (April 11, 1825 – August 31, 1864) was born as Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb Lassal in Breslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland). His father Heyman Lassal was a Jewish silk merchant and intended his son for a business career, sending him to the commercial school at Leipzig. Eventually, Ferdinand became a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher, socialist and politician who is best remembered as the initiator of the social-democratic movement in Germany. “Lassalle was the first man in Germany, the first in Europe, who succeeded in organizing a pa…

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