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| Delbrück, Rudolf von |
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(r ´dôlf f n) (KEY) , 18171903, German statesman. He served (185776) under Bismarck as president of the chancellery of the North German Confederation (186671) and, after 1871, of the German Empire. A protagonist of free trade and liberal economics, he opposed Bismarcks adoption of a protectionist policy in the 1870s and resigned in 1876. |
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