Reich Commissioner 1848/1849

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A Reichskommissar (sometimes also: Reichskommissär or Reichsbevollmächtigte ) was in the years 1848/1849 an agent of the German central authority , the provisional government for the then emerging German Reich . The Reich Commissioners mostly fulfilled specific tasks in a single state.

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The Reich Ministry of the Interior sent Reich commissioners primarily to trouble spots of the revolution, to mediate with the governments of the individual states or for other tasks. In doing so, they received a power of attorney from the imperial administrator , which theoretically mostly assigned them all the necessary powers. The Reich Commissioners could only achieve something if the individual state and its authorities wanted to cooperate.

Reichskommissar Eduard Souchay, for example, set up a governor government in revolutionary Schleswig-Holstein , which was accepted there in the situation at the time; This government did not resign until 1851, long after the end of central power itself. Friedrich Ferdinand von Ammon and other Reich Commissioners had been sent to small German states in order to reduce the number of small states by amalgamating them (so-called mediation question ).

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  1. ↑ Thomas Stockinger: Ministries out of nowhere: The establishment of the provisional central authority 1848. In: Yearbook of the Hambach Society 2013, pp. 59–84, here p. 71.