Mannheim People's Assembly
The Mannheim People's Assembly on February 27, 1848 marked the beginning of the Baden Revolution and thus the March Revolution of 1848. It was convened by radical liberals , including the Mannheim lawyer, journalist and revolutionary Gustav Struve .
trigger
The external reason for the meeting was the news from Paris that revolutionary unrest with barricade fighting (“ February Revolution ”, February 22 to 24, 1848) had broken out and the “citizen king” Louis Philippe had abdicated. This news strengthened the revolutionary spirit of optimism that prevailed in Baden and that had already manifested itself in the meetings in Offenburg and Heppenheim .
March demands
The participants in the Mannheim People's Assembly wrote a petition addressed to the government in Karlsruhe , in which they demanded “prosperity, education and freedom for all classes of society, regardless of birth and status”. It culminates in four demands that mark the cornerstones of the political program of the March Revolution:
- Arming the people with free election of officers
- Unconditional freedom of the press
- Jury courts modeled on England
- Immediate creation of a German parliament
These demands made history as March demands . They were distributed in the federal states of the German Confederation and addressed as addresses to the various governments. (They were based on the demands of the Mannheim People's Assembly of February 27, 1848 and were influenced by the French February Revolution .)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hauß / Schmid, Badisches Kalendarium, 2006, DRW-Verlag, p. 99