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

G E R M A N N AT I O N A L F L A G O N M A R C H 2 1 , 1 8 4 8

UPRIS IN GS IN ALMOST ALL GERMA NIC STATES WERE SUC C ESSFU L

DEMANDS OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES

PARLIAMENT REPRESENTING ALL GERMAN

STATES

CENTRALIZED DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FOR MEN

FREEDOM OF PRESS

N AT I O N A L A SS E M B LY B E G A N I N S T. PA U L’ S C H I R C H I N F R E A N K F U RT

O N M A R C H 2 8 , 1 8 4 8

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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