Faucher's father, a Huguenot, was a member of the French colony in Berlin. Faucher studied philosophy in Berlin. In 1845, Faucher married Karoline Sommerbrodt, daughter of a hat-maker from Berlin, with whom he later had a daughter, Lucie, "the greatest joy of his eventful life". In 1844, Faucher got to know
John Prince-Smith and became an advocate of
Manchester Liberalism. Thus, they founded the
Free Trade Association of Berlin (which did not have much influence) and the
Free Trade-newspaper
Börsennachrichten an der Ostsee, later becoming the
Ostseezeitung. In this newspaper, they advanced a
laissez-faire trade policy. It was in this time that Faucher attended the regular meetings of several
left-wing Hegelians and economists, including
Max Stirner, at the Hippel Restaurant in
Friedrichstraße. When the
Revolutions of 1848 took place, Faucher entered combat on 18–19 March in Stockholm (
Marsoroligheterna). In 1850, Faucher became editor of the newspaper
Berliner Abendpost, of which he was the founder. After facing conflicts with the
Prussian government about his
free trade points of view, including suppression of his newspaper, Faucher emigrated to
England. There, he joined the staff of the
Morning Star and became correspondent for several German newspapers and later secretary to
Richard Cobden. Faucher returned to Prussia in 1861, where he advocate strenuously for the liberty of domicile, free trade and freedom in industry. He was elected to the
Abgeordnetenhaus (a semi-parliament) for the
German Progress Party. In 1863, he founded the newspaper
Vierteljahrzeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Kulturgeschichte (
Quarterly Journal for Economics and Cultural History). During the
Franco-Prussian War, he was correspondent of the London
Daily News with the German armies. In 1866, Faucher left the Progress Party and founded with 14 other Progress Party members and 9 members of the Zentrumspartei a new party, the
National Liberal Party. The reason for the split-off was
Otto von Bismarck's Indemnitätsvorlage as the Progress Party voted against it while the National Liberals were on the side of Chancellor Bismarck (who broke the budget law to finance the war against Austria). == Works ==