Alliance agreements from Teplitz
The alliance treaties of Teplitz were concluded on September 9, 1813 between Russia , Austria and Prussia against Napoleon . On October 3, 1813, Austria concluded a treaty with Great Britain in Teplice (dt. Teplitz) . This created a broad alliance against France .
prehistory
An anti-Napoleonic alliance strengthened around Austria had already emerged in the Reichenbach conventions . On the one hand Metternich declared himself ready to mediate between the allies and France, on the other hand he promised to join the alliance should Napoleon refuse a peace order based on the restoration of the European balance. After the failure of the peace congress in Prague, Austria declared war on Napoleon on August 11th.
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In the alliance treaties of Teplitz, Austria officially joined the anti-Napoleonic alliance of Prussia and Russia. The treaties were signed at the headquarters of the allies, which at the time was located in Teplitz in the Ore Mountains . Nesselrode signed for Russia, Hardenberg for Prussia and Metternich for Austria. A total of six bilateral contracts were concluded between the individual partners.
Those involved undertook to make peace only together and to maintain at least 150,000 soldiers for mutual support. In addition, most of the points of the Reichenbacher Convention were confirmed. Some of the provisions have been amended. The aim was, as the preamble said, the “restoration of a cheap balance of powers”. The points also included the restoration of Prussia and Austria within the borders of 1805. Hanover and the other states in northwest Germany were to be restored. The Rhine Confederation should be dissolved. Its member states should, however, retain their full sovereignty. The remaining German states were also guaranteed independence. Portugal was to come back to the Braganza , Spain and Naples-Sicily to the Bourbons .
Great Britain agreed to these war aims and Aberdeen and Metternich signed an alliance and subsidy treaty in Teplitz on October 3rd. In it, Great Britain committed to the payment of grants amounting to £ 1 million. On the other hand, the expansion of Hanover by around a quarter of a million inhabitants was planned. Even Sweden joined the coalition. This was the first time Napoleon was faced with a previously unknown broad alliance. Metternich also succeeded in persuading Bavaria to leave the Rhine Confederation. After the Battle of Leipzig , another 29 German states joined the alliance.
literature
- Katja Frehland-Wildeboer: Loyal friends? The Alliance in Europe, 1714-1914 (= Studies on International History , Volume 25). Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59652-6 (revised dissertation University of Heidelberg 2007, 478 pages). Pp. 194-197
- Thomas Nipperdey: German history 1800–1866: civil world and strong state. Munich 1994, p. 87
- Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Lexicon of German history . People, events, institutions. From the turn of the times to the end of the 2nd World War. 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-520-81302-5 , p. 1223.