Wilhelm Bracke

Hermann August Franz Wilhelm Gotthard Bracke (29 May 1842 – 27 April 1880) was a German socialist publisher and publicist who was a founding member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany, the forerunner to the Social Democratic Party.

While studying at the Collegium Carolinum, he became a member of the General German Workers' Association (ADAV), which was founded by Ferdinand Lassalle, and co-founded the Brunswick fraternity Germania in the autumn of 1861.

On September 6, 1865, he founded a section of the General German Workers' Association in Braunschweig where he organized meetings and became a member of the board of the ADAV.

[2] In 1869 he met Karl Marx in Hanover at Louis Kugelmann's house, with whom he remained in contact throughout his life.

On the occasion of his 125th birthday, the Wilhelm Bracke Medal was awarded by the German Booksellers’ Association in Leipzig in East Germany from 1968 to 1989 to publishers.