Donnersberg (parliamentary group)

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Thunder Mountain was the name of a since 27. May 1848 existing political group in the National Assembly in Frankfurt . As with most parliamentary groups in the National Assembly, the name refers to the usual place of assembly for parliamentarians. Until September 1848 the members of the Donnersberg parliamentary group met in the Holländischer Hof, then in Donnersberg on the banks of the Main (Am Holzpförtchen 1).

The Donnersberg faction emerged as a split of the radical left from the left faction Deutscher Hof . She supported the revolution's way of creating democracy and granting civil rights. To this end, the MPs agitated against the nobility , the wealthy bourgeoisie and all wealthy. They demanded popular sovereignty and envisioned a state model based on the US model . They opposed the ideas of the small Germans with a right of peoples to self-determination , which was often only interpreted as the right of the Germans to areas that at some point had a reference to the Holy Roman Empire or one of its member states. Representatives of the Donnersberg vehemently represented the integration of Schleswig , Poznan , Bohemia , Moravia and the Italian parts of Austria into the German state and propagated strong nationalism .

Your best-known MPs were Lorenz Brentano , Carl Damm , Damian Junghanns , Christian Kapp , Joseph Ignatz Peter , Gustav Rée , Arnold Ruge , Friedrich Schüler , Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler , Maximilian Werner , Hugo Wesendonck and Wilhelm Wolff .

After the first high point of the March Revolution , the Donnersberg faction reunited with the Deutsches Hof and with the more radical part of the Westendhall faction in November 1848, and from then on formed the Central March Association , which was not only a faction but also part of a left-wing association movement.

literature

  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege (ed.): Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 , Düsseldorf: Droste 1996, p. 402 [list of members].
  • Manfred Botzenhart : German parliamentarism in the revolutionary period 1848–1850 , Düsseldorf: Droste 1977 (= manual of the history of German parliamentarism ).