General German Workers' Association

General German
Workers' Association

Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiter-Verein
General German; Workers' Association Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiter-Verein
Founder	Ferdinand Lassalle
Founded	23 May 1863
Dissolved	May 1875
Merged into	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Headquarters	Berlin; Leipzig (since 1868)
Newspaper	Der Sozial-Demokrat; Der Agitator; Neuer Social-Demokrat
Membership	15,000
Ideology	Social democracy; Lassallism
Political position	Left-wing
Colors	Red
	Politics of Germany; Political parties; Elections;

The General German Workers' Association (German: Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiter-Verein, ADAV) was a German political party founded on 23 May 1863 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony by Ferdinand Lassalle. It was the first organized mass working-class party in European history.^[1]

The organization existed by this name until 1875, when it combined with the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany. This unified organization was renamed soon thereafter the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), which presently remains in existence and dates its origins to the founding of the ADAV. Its Austrian part would become the SPÖ.

The ADAV was the first German Labour Party, formed in Prussia before the establishment of the German Empire. It was active in the German Confederation, which included the Austrian Empire.^[2]

^ Shlomo (2019). Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0300211702.
^ Lassalle, Ferdinand; Bernstein, Eduard (1919). Gesammelte Reden und Schriften. Berlin, Paul Cassirer.

[1] Shlomo (2019). Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0300211702.

[2] Lassalle, Ferdinand; Bernstein, Eduard (1919). Gesammelte Reden und Schriften. Berlin, Paul Cassirer.

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