Augustenburg Movement

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Political advertising by Augustenburg in Schleswig-Holstein in 1864: "Jung's fast!", "Up eternally ungeled!", "My right is your salvation!"
The Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg triplet birth in Kladderadatsch in 1864: Mrs. Germania worries about the three duchies. Above the cradle you can see portraits of the Austrian and Prussian negotiators, the "Augustenburg" and the "Oldenburg", who also had claims to the throne.

The Augustenburg Movement describes a political movement in Schleswig-Holstein that emerged in 1863 , which supported the wish of the German population for an independent Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein as a central state of the German Confederation under the leadership of Duke Friedrich VIII of Schleswig-Holstein from the House of Schleswig- Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg endorsed it.

history

Since the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , inheritance claims of the Augustenburg line of the House of Oldenburg had been in the room and on December 30, 1863 led to the proclamation of Duke Friedrich VIII as the new Duke of Schleswig-Holstein . This was partly under the (actually against Denmark) federal execution against the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg in 1863 . On January 16, 1864, the two great powers Austria and Prussia issued an ultimatum to Denmark to repeal the November constitution within two days, which undermined the constitutional unity of the duchies (" Up eternally ungedeelt "), which had been enshrined in the Treaty of Ripen . Since this was not possible due to the sheer passage of time, the German-Danish War broke out on February 1st . With the dissolution of the Austro-Prussian condominium in Schleswig-Holstein as a result of the German-Austrian War in 1866, Otto von Bismarck came closer to the annexation plan for Schleswig-Holstein formulated in 1864. The consistent persecution of the Augustenburger in Schleswig-Holstein began under the governor Edwin von Manteuffel in the Prussian-controlled parts of the country as early as 1864.

In addition to the conservative advocates of the entire Danish state , there was the national liberal movement of the Eider Danes in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein around the middle of the 19th century . Danes and Germans were in sharp political opposition at this time when nation- states were being formed, but so were the political camps on the German and Danish sides themselves; the German population was also politically divided. While one group, including the country's nobility, organized in the knighthood under the leadership of Carl von Scheel-Plessen , tended towards Prussia , the Augustenburg movement under its political leaders such as Theodor Griebel rejected the annexation by Prussia and fought until the end of the 1870s Years for the state independence of Schleswig-Holstein in the German Empire. Together with other liberals who rejected the Prussian solution to the Schleswig-Holstein question , Griebel founded the German-Schleswig-Holstein party in 1870 , which was also known as the "state party". Even before Griebel's death in 1875, the Augustenburg movement rapidly lost its importance against the background of the successful establishment of the German Empire .

Further supporters of the Augustenburg movement

literature

Web links

Commons : Augustenburg movement  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Korth / Hartwig Molzow: Griebel, Theodor . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 132-133.