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1848 in Germany
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Events from the year
1848 in Germany
.
Incumbents
King of Bavaria
–
Ludwig I.
(until 20 March 1848);
Maximilian II
(since 20 March 1848)
King of Hanover
–
Ernest Augustus
King of Prussia
–
Frederick William IV
King of Saxony
–
Frederick Augustus II
Events
17 March - Poem
In Kümmernis und Dunkelheit
was written in London by German poet
Ferdinand Freiligrath
.
February - Publication of
The Communist Manifesto
April -
Hecker uprising
in Baden
9 April -
Battle of Bov
9 April - Foundation of
Münchner Neueste Nachrichten
20 April -
Battle on the Scheideck
23 April -
Battle of Schleswig
23 April -
Battle of Mysunde
24 April -
Skirmish of Oversø
1 May -
1848 German federal election
7 May - Start of magazine
Kladderadatsch
11 May -
Baden mutiny
18 May - 379 deputies assembled in the
Kaisersaal
in
Frankfurt am Main
walked solemnly to the
Paulskirche
to hold the first session of the German national assembly, under its chairman (by seniority)
Friedrich Lang
.
Heinrich von Gagern
became first elected president of
Frankfurt Parliament
.
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1 June - Foundation of
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
24 June - President of the National Assembly
Heinrich von Gagern
argued for a regency and
provisional central government
to carry out parliamentary decisions.
25 June - Forming of
Casino faction
in Frankfurt Parliament:
Factions in the Frankfurt Assembly
21 September -
Struve Putsch
: Proclamation of the German Republic by
Gustav Struve
in
Lörrach
21 October -
Würzburg Bishops' Conference
5 December - Promulgation of the
Constitution of Prussia (1848)
Undated
Forty-Eighters
German revolutions of 1848–1849
Baden Revolution
Foundation of
Piusverein
Painting
Gnome Watching Railway Train
by
Carl Spitzweg
Painting
Germania (St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main)
Opera
Regina
by German composer
Albert Lortzing
Births
10 January -
Paul Tschackert
, German Protestant theologian (died
1911
)
12 January -
Franz von Soxhlet
, German agricultural chemist (died
1926
)
2 February -
Ludwig Dill
, German painter (died
1940
)
4 February -
Hermann von Hatzfeldt
, German nobleman and politician (died
1933
)
5 February -
Louis Schmeisser
, German weapon technical designer (died
1917
)
6 February -
Wilhelm von Finck
, German banker and entrepreneur (died
1924
)
7 February -
Adolf Weil
, German physician (died
1916
)
13 February –
Hermann von Eichhorn
, German field marshal (died
1918
)
25 February – King
William II of Württemberg
(died
1921
)
3 March -
Gustav Fischer
, German explorer (died
1886
)
27 April – King
Otto of Bavaria
(died
1916
)
23 May -
Otto Lilienthal
, German engineer, aviation pioneer (died
1896
)
23 May -
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
, German general (died
1916
)
3 July –
Lothar von Trotha
, German military commander (died
1920
)
22 July -
Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
(died
1914
)
7 September -
Berta Behrens
, German novelist (died
1912
)
8 September –
Viktor Meyer
, German chemist (died
1897
)
18 September -
Maximilian Nitze
, German urologist (died
1916
)
20 September –
Friedrich Soennecken
, German entrepreneur, inventor of the hole punch and ringbinder (died
1919
)
8 November –
Gottlob Frege
, German logician (died
1925
)
23 November -
Habbo Gerhard Lolling
, German archaeologist (died
1894
)
27 November –
Maximilian von Prittwitz
, German general (died
1917
)
22 December -
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
, German classical philologist (died
1931
)
Deaths
9 January –
Caroline Herschel
, German astronomer (born
1750
)
22 January -
Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider
, German Protestant scholar and theologian (born
1776
)
15 February –
Hermann von Boyen
, Prussian field marshal (born
1771
)
22 February –
Wilhelmine Reichard
, first German woman balloonist (born
1788
)
24 May –
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
, German writer (born
1797
)
10 July –
Karoline Jagemann
, German actress (born
1777
)
18 September -
Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald
, Prussian general (born
1792
)
9 November –
Robert Blum
, German politician (born
1810
)
28 November -
Duchess Amelia of Württemberg
, German noblewoman (born
1799
)
16 December -
Bruno Erhard Abegg
, German politician and statesman (born
1803
)
31 December -
Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann
, German philologist (born
1772
)
undated -
Ludwig Leichhardt
, German explorer in Australia (born
1813
)
External links
Bundestag.de: Revolution und Frankfurter Nationalversammlung 1848/1849 (German)
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Revolution von 1848 (German)
References
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Bundestag.de: Revolution und Frankfurter Nationalversammlung 1848/1849 (German)
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