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- Amazon & orders for Heinrich Mann book--any changes?--I need to
place the order.
Guiding Questions
- What caused the 1848 revolutions? -- Did they succeed or fail?
(What were the goals?)
Timeline
- 1844: 3000 weavers revolt in Silesia
- 1846: reformist Pope Pius IX
1847, Oct: Swiss Catholic Sonderbund (1845) defeated by Confederate
militias (1831 reforms)
- 1847, Feb: United Committee convened in Berlin; Sept: Constitutional
demands in Baden
- 1848, Feb. 22-24: street fighting in Paris (why?), King Louis Philippe
abdicates
- Feb. 27: Mannheim mass meeting adopts Baden demands; March 1: Grand
Duke implements
- March 13: revolution in Vienna (Metternich flees)
March 18: revolution in Berlin; March 19: King FW IV honors fallen
March 20: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates
- March 31-April 3: pre-parliament in Frankfurt--liberals vs.
radicals
- April 12-20: first (radical) republican uprising in Baden, led by
Hecker and Struve
April-August: (first) German-Danish war
- May 15: second uprising in Vienna (pan-Austrian Reichstag created)
May 18: parliament convenes in Fkft, elects von Gagern (1799-1880) president
[Kitchen 79]
- June 16: uprising in Prague; Bonaparte's nephew Prince Louis Napoleon
elected president
- Sept. 18: radicals storm St. Paul's Church
Sept. 21-25: second radical uprising in Baden
- Oct. 6-31: 3rd uprising in Vienna
- Nov. 9: Robert Blum executed
- Dec. 5: constitution "from above" in Prussia
Core ideas: radical - liberal - national?
- "Principles and Decisions of October 18" [1817]; Riemann (1793-1872)
& Karl Müller (1797-1840), both Veterans of Lützow Corps
- national, economic and religious unity
- uniform legal system
- constitutional hereditary monarchy
- freedom of speech and of the press, equality before the law,
- public trials by jury,
- national military service
- some text passages used verbatim in the 1849 Frankfurt constitution,
and
from there into both the 1919 Weimar constitution and the 1949 Basic
Law
Question 4, due Wednesday, 10/25/06
- Drawing on Schulze S10 (pp. 131ff--excerpts from the St. Paul's Church
parliamentary debates, July 1848-March 1849), give 3 reasons why Austria
should be a part of the new German federation, and 3 reasons why it
should not. Do this in 6 sentences (can be bullets)!
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