Max Hödel 2452680 224955181 2008-07-11T04:34:14Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other {{Infobox Criminal | subject_name = Emil Max Hödel | image_name = Max Hödel.png | image_size = 100px | image_caption = Art by Michael J. Schaack, 1889. | date_of_birth = 1857 | place_of_birth = | date_of_death = August 16, 1878 | place_of_death = | charge = | penalty = [[Capital punishment|Death Penalty]] | status = Executed (via [[decapitation]]) | occupation = Plumber | spouse = | parents = | children = }} '''Emil Max Hödel''' (1857&ndash; [[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 [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/07/23a.htm] and eventually became involved in [[anarchism]]. Hödel used a [[revolver]] to shoot at the German Emperor, [[Wilhelm I, German Emperor|Wilhelm I]], on [[May 11]], [[1878]], while the 82-year-old and his daughter, [[Princess Louise of Prussia]], paraded in their carriage. When the bullet missed, Hödel ran across the street and fired another round which also missed. In the commotion one of the individuals who tried to apprehend Hödel suffered severe internal injuries and died two days later. The State convicted Hödel after a [[photographer]] who took the radical’s picture days before the assassination attempt 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 of Germany|Social Democratic Party]], his actions were used as a pretext to ban the party through the [[Anti-Socialist Laws|Anti-Socialist Law]] in October 1878. == See also == *[[Karl Nobiling]] *[[Propaganda of the deed]] <!--Footers--> {{Anarchism2}} <!--Persondata--> {{Persondata |NAME = Hödel, Max |ALTERNATIVE NAMES = |SHORT DESCRIPTION = German anarchist, failed assassin. |DATE OF BIRTH = 1857 |PLACE OF BIRTH = |DATE OF DEATH = August 16, 1878 |PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hodel, Emil Max}} <!--Categories--> [[Category:1857 births]] [[Category:1878 deaths]] [[Category:People from Leipzig]] [[Category:Executed anarchists]] [[Category:Failed assassins]] [[Category:Anarchist assassins]] [[Category:People executed by decapitation]] [[Category:German assassins]] [[Category:People executed by the German Empire]] {{anarchist-stub}} {{bio-stub}} {{crime-bio-stub}} <!--Other languages--> [[de:Max Hödel]] [[fr:Max Hödel]] [[it:Max Hödel]] [[nl:Max Hödel]]