Aachen Protocol

The Aachen Protocol was a document signed on November 15, 1818 by the ambassadors of the four allied states participating in the Aachen congress , Russia , Austria , Prussia and Great Britain, as well as by the foreign minister of the newly joined France , which affirmed the alliance of these major European powers.

Quartier Metternichs in Aachen's Komphausbadstrasse (Karlsbad house; back left)

After King Louis XVIII. On November 12, 1818, the four states represented at the Aachen Congress had accepted the invitation to contribute to the safeguarding of peace in Europe by participating in the negotiations there, the five-point Aachen Protocol was signed on November 15 by Metternich , Richelieu , Castlereagh , Wellington , Hardenberg , Bernstorff , Nesselrode and Kapodistrias . In the first two articles of the Protocol, Russia, Austria, Prussia and Great Britain reaffirmed their alliance for the maintenance of general peace. In the third article they stated that after the restoration of the monarchy , France was also included in their union. In addition, the great powers agreed in the fourth article on the creation of an efficient diplomatic communication system and in the fifth article on the announcement of the resolutions by means of a separate declaration, which was to be announced throughout Europe on the same day. As a result, France was the fifth major power to be part of the European Concert again .

Hardenbergs quarter at Aachener Markt (Bettendorf house; center-left)

An agreement concluded on November 21, 1818 and supplementing the Vienna Regulations of March 19, 1815, which established the hierarchy of the diplomatic corps , is also known as the Aachen Protocol . Thus, four classes of diplomatic representatives were distinguished, one of which comes first, the ambassadors , papal legate and nuncios came, the Messenger and papal internuncios , finally, the resident minister and in last place, the charge d'affaires .

literature

• Volker Schäfer: Aachen Protocol. In: Gerhard Taddey (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German history . Events, institutions, people. From the beginning to the surrender in 1945. 3rd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-81303-3 , p. 2.
• Friedrich von Gentz , Protocole Signé à Aix-la-Chapelle, le 15 novembre 1818, par les Plénipotentia des cours d'Autriche, de France, de la Grande-Bretagne, de Prusse et de Russie (1818, printed protocol, existing id Duchess Anna Amalia Library ).

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Volker Schäfer: Aachen Protocol. In: Lexikon der deutschen Geschichte , 1998, p. 2.
2. ↑ Hardenberg stayed in the Haus zum Schwarzen Adler. According to Albert Heusch : History of the Heusch Family (Aachen 1909, p. 56, footnote 2), whose great-great-great-uncle Franz Cornelius Aegidius Heusch (1775–1843) had acquired this Gasthof zum Schwarzen Adler from the Bettendorf family in 1821, some meetings of the Aachen Congress took place in its large tapestry hall and possibly the signing of the Aachen Protocol [this building, later called "House Godefroid" by Paul Clemen ( Kunstdenkmäler , 1924), was demolished in 1905 in favor of the new building for Tietz-AG ]. See also Kaemmerer et al. 2003 ( History of Aachen in data ), Helg / Linden 2006 ( From Imperial Glory to Citizen Freedom: Aachen City Hall ) and the Regensburger Zeitung of November 6, 1818.
3. ↑ Aachen Protocol. In: Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon , 9th edition, 1971-79, vol. 1, p. 5 f.
4. ↑ Aachen Protocol on Rechtslexikon.net
5. ↑ Congresses of Power 1818–1822. Digital edition.