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Willi Eichler
Willi Eichler (January 7, 1896 – October 17, 1971) was a German journalist and politician with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Before 1945.
Eichler was born in Berlin, the son of a postal worker. He attended Volksschule and then became a clerk. Between 1915 and 1918, he served as a soldier in the First World War.
In 1922, he went to work as the secretary of the socialist philosopher, Leonard Nelson, who founded the Internationaler Sozialistischer
had fallen to Willi Eichler. Between 1927 and 1933 Eichler, Spricht and Heckmann worked together to promote and evolve the ISK's neo-Kantianist vision of socialism, defined through the prism of Socratic method as an ethical concept, but one bereft of the determinism implicit in the works of Karl Marx, and unimpeded by the religious distractions implicit in Christianity. Heckmann's life experiences would lead him to develop Nelson's methodology of political philosophy towards his understanding of its Socratic basis, and a more practical and less absolutist search for truth