Military convention
Through a military convention between 1866 and 1871, the German states subordinated their troops first to the North German Confederation under the supreme command of the Prussian king , and later to the German Empire with the German Kaiser at its head.
Braunschweig and Bavaria were excluded entirely or temporarily . The Bavarian Army remained under the Treaty of Accession to the North German Confederation under the command of the Bavarian King; Only when the mobilization was made did the supreme command pass to the emperor. Braunschweig, whose Welf ruling house had been at war with the Hohenzollern monarchy since the Prussian annexation of Hanover in 1866 , was only ready to conclude the military convention in 1886 after the death of the last Welf Duke Wilhelm .
Extract from the military convention
“Through the military convention, the federal princes concerned have ceded their rights to appoint the officers of their contingent to his majesty the German emperor. Your troops are under the Prussian administration or are completely merged with the Prussian army . "
States involved
The army contingents concerned belonged to:
- Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont , already on August 1, 1862, October 1867 accession agreement
- Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach dated February 4, 1867 together with the protocol dated February 22, 1867, joined:
- Kingdom of Saxony from February 7, 1867
- Grand Duchy of Hesse from April 7, 1867
- Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from June 6, 1867
- as well as the Free Cities
- Grand Duchy of Oldenburg from July 15, 1867
- Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from July 24, 1868
- Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from November 9, 1868
- Kingdom of Württemberg : Military Convention between the North German Confederation and Württemberg from 21./25. November 1870
- Grand Duchy of Baden : Military Convention between the North German Confederation and Baden of November 25, 1870
- Duchy of Braunschweig , not until March 9, 1886
The contracts were concluded at different times, but - with two exceptions - all fell in the period after the end of the German War in 1866 and 1873.
source
- The little book of the German Army by Fireworks Lieutenant Klein, Verlag Lipsius & Tischer, Leipzig 1901; also as a reprint Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg, 1998, ISBN 3-8289-0271-5
- Egbert Koolman: An Oldenburger in Berlin. Wilhelm Meinardus and the Prussian-Oldenburg Military Convention of 1867 ; in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch , Vol. 100, 2000, pp. 49-88.
See also
- Wikisource: The contract with Bavaria - sources and full texts
- Wikisource: The contract with Württemberg - sources and full texts
- Bismarck's Imperial Constitution
- Reservation rights (German Empire)
Web links
- Wording of the constitution of the German Empire of 1871, regulations on the land army in Art. 57 ff.
- Wording of the alliance agreement with Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Bernhard Kiekenap : Karl and Wilhelm. The sons of the Black Duke. Volume III. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-937664-07-6 , pp. 62-71 and 332 f. (There also excerpts from the military convention).
- ^ Negotiations of the German Reichstag in 1872. Document No. 188 and 189. Accessed on September 21, 2016 .
- ^ Wording of the military convention with Württemberg
- ^ Wording of the military convention with Baden
- ↑ See Kiekenap, p. 332.