List of envoys from the Free City of Frankfurt to the German Confederation
The Free City of Frankfurt was next to the Hanseatic cities of Bremen , Hamburg and Lübeck one of the four sovereign city-states in the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866. Like the other Member States of the German Confederation was Frankfurt through its own envoy in Parliament represented the in the Palais Thurn und Taxis in Frankfurt met on the Main .
The respective Frankfurt envoy was a member of the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt , the highest executive body of the Free City, and its diplomatic representative in relation to the diplomacy of the German Confederation .
According to Articles IV, V and IX of the German Federal Act of 1815, the representatives of the four free cities had to share the 17th vote in the inner council as the “ curate vote ”. The common vote was only valid if all four free cities were unanimous.
Frankfurt had its own vote in the plenum responsible for certain federal matters under Articles VI and VII .
Envoy of the Free City of Frankfurt to the German Confederation
| 1816 to 1833: | Johann Ernst Friedrich Danz |
| 1833 to 1837: | Johann Gerhard Christian Thomas |
| 1838 to 1847: | Johann Friedrich von Meyer |
| 1848: | Eduard Ludwig von Harnier |
| During the German Revolution from 1848/49 until the restoration of the German Confederation in 1851, the Bundestag did not meet. | |
| 1851 to 1860: | Eduard Ludwig von Harnier |
| 1861 to 1866 | Samuel Gottlieb Müller |
With the occupation of Frankfurt by the Prussian army in the German War on July 16, 1866, the sovereignty of the Free City of Frankfurt ended.
literature
- Tobias Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , p. 35, KG Saur, Munich, 2012
- Richard Schwemer : History of the Free City of Frankfurt a. M. 1814-1866. On behalf of the Municipal Historical Commission . Baer & Co, 3 volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1910 to 1918
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. KG Saur, Munich 2012, p. 180.