WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE GERMANIC STATES IN 1848-1849?

GERMANIC STATES IN THE MIDDLE OF 19 CENTURY

• 27.10.1848 - First Revolt in Manheim

• Demands for representative government

• 18.03.1848 – Demonstration in Berlin, which led

to barricade fighting between protestors and

regular soldiers

• King Frederick William IV, taken by surprise, verbally accepts all

demands and promises that Prussia will be

merged in to the new Germany, alongside all other German states

(which, however, didn’t happen)

K I N G F R E D E R I C K W I L L I A M I V M A R C H E S T H R O U G H B E R L I N, WAV I N G T H E N E W

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UP RI SI NGS I N A LMO S T ALL GERMANIC S TATES WERE SUC CESS FUL

DEMANDS OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES

PARLIAMENT REPRESENTING ALL GERMAN STATES

CENTRALIZED DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FOR MEN FREEDOM OF PRESS

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The National Assembly, convened in Frankfurt on May 18, 1848,

sought to: Write a national constitution

Create a centralized government

Guarantee freedom of the press, trial by jury, and other basic

rights by codifying the "Basic Rights for the German People"

D E M O N S T R AT I O N S I N H O L S T E I N L E D T O T H E F I R S T S C H L E S W I G WA R B E T W E E N T H E G E R M A N I C S TAT E S A N D D E N M A R K

Denmark emerges victorious and retains

the duchies of Holstein and Schleswig

Conflict, however, will continue in the future

National Assembly approves the Malmo Treaty, which led to

decline in public support. Radical

Republicans came in opposition to the

Assembly

ACHEIVMENTS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

21 December, 1848 – Imperial act for the Basic Rights of the German People (equality before law, abolition of class privileges, freedom of press and freedom of personal and political liberties) 27 March, 1849 – Imperial Constitution (established a unified German state, which included all states from the German Confederation, apart from Austria; established a hereditary emperor as the head of the state, who also appointed the government) 14 June, 1848 – Founding of the Reichsflotte (the German Navy)

3 APRIL , 1849 -KEISERDEPUTATION

KING FREDERICK WILLIAM IV REFUSES TO RECEIVE THE

CROWN “FROM THE GUTTER”

6 JUNE, 1849 – THE REMAINING MEMBERS MOVE TO STUTTGART.

THE ASSEMBLY WAS NOW CALLED RUMP PARLIAMENT

18 JUNE, 1849 – DISSOLUTION OF THE RUMP PARLIAMENT

EVENTUALLY, ALL KINGS RETURNED TO THEIR THRONES, BREAKING THE

RESISTANCE OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES

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