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Das Lied der Deutschen. Lecture 1. The Legacy of 1848 / Is Germany Unique?. From the Meuse?. From the Meuse to the Memel / From the Adige to the Belt. Pre-1848 Social Groupings.
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Lecture 1 The Legacy of 1848 / Is Germany Unique?
From the Meuse? From the Meuse to the Memel / From the Adige to the Belt
Pre-1848 Social Groupings • Aristocracy: high nobility (Hochadel), aristocracy of the courts (Hof- and Dienstadel)—core of the counterrevolution, minor aristocracy (Kleinadel), and aristocracy of the towns. • Middle classes: the commercial middle class (bourgeoisie), civil servants and educated middle class, freelance intelligentsia, and the lower middle class (Kleinbürgertum or petit bourgeoisie). • Peasantry: highly stratified depending upon region and regional history. • Growing underclass.
Political Oppression • Press Censorship • Outlaw of any political associations • Radicalization of political groups
Internal Pressures • Hungry 40s • Demographic Changes • Rise in prices of basic goods • Food riots • Dissatisfaction with Political System
Int’l Developments • Succession in Schleswig-Holstein • Swiss Reforms • Italian nationalism against the Austro-Hungarian Empire
End of the July Monarchy Paris Barricades of February 1848 H. Vernet, Barricade in the Rue Soufflot, Paris1848
Republican Uprising in Baden, 1848 http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/cross-search/search/_1255276722/?search[page]=6
On the barricades, 1848 http://www.bundestag.de/blickpunkt/105_Unter_der_Kuppel/0409014.html
March Demands • A people’s army with freely elected officers • Freedom of the press • Trial by jury • Creation of a German parliament
Bundestag Decrees • Press Freedom • Revision of the Federal Constitution • Recognition of the colors red, black, and gold as federal colors • Creation of the Committee of Seventeen to oversee the creation of a constitution
Rough Breakdown of Political Associations • Workers’ Associations • Democrats • Constitutionalists • Catholics • Conservatives
Counterrevolution • European context-late spring/summer/fall 1848 • Poland • Prague • Paris • Northern Italy • Frankfurt / Baden
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_christoph_dahlmann.jpg “Injustice has lost all sense of shame.”