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HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013. Lecture Four: The Revolutions of 1848. Germany 1815-1848: Restoration or Vormarz ?. How to Think About Ideological Contest Carlsbad Decrees and Troppau Protocol German Liberalism in Relation to France and England Hambacher Fest
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HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2013 Lecture Four: The Revolutions of 1848
Germany 1815-1848: Restoration or Vormarz? • How to Think About Ideological Contest • Carlsbad Decrees and Troppau Protocol • German Liberalism in Relation to France and England • Hambacher Fest • Hoffmann von Fallersleben and the Deutschlandlied
German Nationalism as a Program • The “Who Is German?” Problem • Grossdeutsch • The Problem with Austria and Nationalism • Kleindeutsch • Peculiarities of Prussia
1848 • Increasing Tensions • “When France Sneezes, All Europe Catches Cold” • The March Ministries • Louis Kossuth and the Magyars • The Fall of Metternich
The Frankfurt Parliament: A First Attempt at German Unity • Uprisings in Baden, Saxony • Call for a National Parliament • Composition of Frankfurt Parliament • Liberal Proposals of Frankfurt Parliament • Grossdeutsch or Kleindeutsch?
Collapse of 1848 • Offer to Prussia’s Frederick William IV • Rejection • End of the Frankfurt Parliament • Military Repression • Repeal of the March Ministries • A “Turning Point that Failed to Turn”?
The New Austro-Prussian Rivalry • Cooperation in Suppression of Revolution • Continuing Importance of the Zollverein and Fate of the Germanic Confederation • The “Humiliation” of Olmutz 1850 • Otto von Bismarck