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Life

In the later part of the 19th century the state was guiding Germany through rapid industrialization, which was creating new social problems. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had obtained legislation under which the state gave a degree of unemployment insurance and old age support, but other laws also needed change. The first draft of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (German Civil Code) was published in 1887, and would lead to enactment of a revised code in 1900. In 1888 Stammler gave his support to the draft code, rejecting the fatalist views of nationalists such as Otto von Gierke who thought a people's law must unfold naturally. He also opposed the view of Ferdinand Lassalle and the socialists that economic forces determine the law.