March government
The March government or March cabinets are the governments of the states of the German Confederation , which were set up by the sovereign princes in March 1848 to meet some of the demands of the March Revolution .
Most of these March governments replaced conservative ministries and carried out a moderate- liberal change of course, which, however, in the course of the radicalization of the revolution was often not enough to restore internal order. Most of these governments were recalled at the end of 1848 or in the first half of 1849 , as soon as the respective sovereign felt himself strong enough domestically to push through a new, more conservative cabinet.
March governments were as March Minister of most nationally known liberals, such as:
- in Anhalt-Dessau : Habicht - Köppe
- in Anhalt-Koethen : Albert von Goßler
- in Baden : Karl Georg Hoffmann (Minister of Finance)
- in Kingdom of Bavaria : Mayor of Regensburg Gottlieb von Thon-Dittmer (Minister of the Interior)
- in Hanover : Johann Carl Bertram Stüve (Minister of the Interior)
- in the Electorate of Hesse : Bernhard Eberhard (Interior Minister)
- in the Grand Duchy of Hesse : Heinrich von Gagern (Prime Minister), Heinrich Karl Jaup (Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior)
- in Nassau : August Hergenhahn (Prime Minister)
- in Prussia : Ludolf Camphausen (Prime Minister), David Hansemann (Minister of Finance), Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar (Minister of Education)
- in Saxony : Karl Braun (Prime Minister)
- in Württemberg : Friedrich Römer (Justice Minister and de facto Head of his Cabinet ), Adolf Goppel (Finance Minister), Paul Pfizer (Minister for Churches and Schools)
- in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen : Friedrich Chop (Head of the Privy Council)
- in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg : Johann Heinrich Jakob Schloifer
- in the Principality of Lippe : Friedrich Simon Leopold Petri
- in the Principality of Waldeck : Wolrad Schumacher
literature
- Eva Maria Werner, The March Ministries. Governments of the revolution of 1848/49 in the states of the German Confederation , Göttingen 2008.