Carlsbad Agreement
The Karlovy Vary Agreement , also known as the Austro-Prussian punctuation , was an agreement between the great German powers Austria and Prussia reached on June 24, 1864 in Karlovy Vary during the German-Danish War .
history
After the successful assault on the Düppeler Schanzen by Prussian troops on April 18, 1864, the Danish government asked for a ceasefire and a first armistice , which came into force on May 12, 1864. As early as April 25, 1864, representatives of the European states had been negotiating at the London Conference to find a solution to this conflict. The negotiations ended on June 25, 1864 with no result.
Since a failure of the negotiations was foreseeable, Austria and Prussia agreed on the further course of the war in Denmark at a meeting in the Bohemian city of Karlsbad one day before the end of the London Conference . King Wilhelm I of Prussia arrived in Karlsbad on June 18, the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck and the Austrian Prime Minister Bernhard von Rechberg a day later. The arrival of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I took place on June 22, 1864. On June 24, 1864, the agreement known as the Carlsbad Agreement was signed by Bismarck and Rechberg after Bismarck himself made several improvements to the original design.
With the end of the first armistice on June 26, 1864, the Prussian troops began to occupy the island of Alsen on June 28 and 29, 1864, and on July 10, the allied Austrian and Prussian armies crossed the Limfjord in North Jutland. After a renewed request from the Danish government, a second armistice came into force on July 18, 1864. Already on August 1 was preliminary peace of Vienna signed the in the October 30, 1864 Definitely Peace of Vienna was largely confirmed.
content
With the seven-point Karlovy Vary Agreement it was agreed, among other things, to occupy the island of Als and all of Jutland as further operational targets. In support of the attack on Alsen, a mock attack against the island of Funen was to be carried out in order to tie up the Danish forces there. An occupation of Funen was refrained from. Jutland was to remain occupied as a pledge for later negotiations and taken over into its own administration. The main goal of the war was now defined as the elimination of the Elbe duchies from the entire Danish state. The offers made at the London conference to partition the Duchy of Schleswig should no longer be binding in future negotiations.
Karlovy Vary Agreement (complete)
Both Supreme Courts agree:
1) After the armistice has expired, the military occupation will be extended to Alsen Island and Jutland across the Liim Fjord.
2) In the event that a demonstration against Funen in support of the attack on these two objects, with the intention of detaining Danish armed forces there, is undertaken, this should not be extended to the landing on the island.
3) Intending to localize the war as far as possible, reserve the right to agree on operations against the Danish islands for later negotiations.
4) To keep Jutland as a Regociations-Object and to take it into its own administration and taxation.
5) To regard the concession offered to the conference regarding the division of Schleswig as invalid and not binding for future negotiations; to make this resolution publicly known.
6) The commonality of the administration of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg under the leadership of the allies, to bring about through appropriate influence on the German Confederation and to ensure that the resources of the two last-named duchies are made usable for the war to the same extent as the Schleswigs .
7) The aim of the war was the secession of the duchies from Denmark, to strive for the most favorable extent possible under the circumstances.
Karlsbad, June 24th, 1864
(signed) Graf Rechberg (signed) v. Bismarck-Schönhausen
literature
- Great General Staff (ed.): The German-Danish War 1864. Mittler, Berlin 1887. Volume 2, pages 619–625 + 192.
- Friedrich Thimme (arrangement): Bismarck, The collected works. Otto Stollberg, Publishing House for Politics and Economics, Berlin 1927, Volume 4: Political Writings 1862 to 1864. Page 475.