Mainz Central Investigation Commission

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The Mainz Central Investigation Commission ( Central Commission for Investigating Treasonous Activities ) was set up in Mainz in 1819 . It was in Große Bleiche 26 (Litera D 292). Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich initiated it after the Karlsbad resolutions . It stood for the first wave of demagogue persecution in the German Confederation .

task

The "black commission" was supposed to control students and professors at the German universities , especially the (original) fraternities , which were prohibited from any political activity according to the Karlovy Vary resolutions. She received updates on the persecution of critical writers from the local authorities and coordinated their nationwide persecution. Nowhere was it as rigorous as in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and in the Kingdom of Prussia . The Mainz authority was part of the Metternich system, whose measures are also referred to by the term demagogue tracking . In 1827 she published a final statement of accounts. From 1820 to 1830 Leopold von Kaisenberg was President of the Mainz Central Investigation Commission.

In the German Revolution of 1848/1849 the Carlsbad resolutions were repealed.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Schütz : From blue-white-red to black-red-gold. Mainz from the beginning of Napoleonic rule in 1798 to the revolution of 1848 (= contributions to the history of the city of Mainz . Volume 32). Mainz 1998, p. 133.
  2. ^ Franziska Reiner: The Mainzer Central Investigation Commission 1819 to 1829 - On the Dilemma of a ›supranational police authority‹ I. aventinus nova No. 17, winter 2009
  3. ↑ a b c Harald Lönnecker : Demagogue tracking (historicum.net)

literature

  • Leopold Friedrich Ilse: History of the political investigations carried out by the commissions established alongside the Federal Assembly, the Central Investigation Commission in Mainz and the Federal Central Authority in Frankfurt in the years 1819 to 1827 and 1833 to 1842 . Frankfurt am Main 1860.
  • Karl Glossy : Literary secret reports from the Vormärz. With an introduction and comments . Vienna 1912 (separate print from the yearbook of the Grillparzer Society, vol. XXI – XXIII).
  • Hans Adler (ed.): Literary secret reports. Metternich agents' logs . Vol. 1 1840-1843. With a foreword by Walter Jens . Information press CW Leske, Cologne 1977 ISBN 3-434-00297-9 .
  • Hans Adler (ed.): Literary secret reports. Metternich agents' logs . Vol. 2 1844-1848. With a contribution by Dieter Langewiesche . Information press CW Leske, Cologne 1981 ISBN 3-434-00354-1 .
  • Egbert Weiß : Corps students in the pre-March period - “persecuted” and “persecutors” . Einst und Jetzt 33 (1988), pp. 47-63; Supplements 34 (1989), p. 264 f.
  • Wolfram Siemann : The Mainzer Central Investigation Commission 1819-1828 , in: Ders .: “Germany's peace, security and order”. The beginnings of the political police 1806–1866 (texts and studies on the social history of literature, 14), Tübingen 1985, pp. 76–86.
  • Eberhard Weber: The Mainzer Central Investigation Commission (Studies and Sources on the History of German Constitutional Law, Series A, Studies), Karlsruhe 1970.

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