Polish uprising in the province of Poznan (1846)

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The Polish uprising in the province of Posen in 1846 was an attempted national-Polish uprising in the Polish-speaking part of the Prussian province of Posen .

prehistory

In the Polish subdivisions , new organizations emerged in the 1840s with the aim of renewing the Polish state. These included the Democratic Society in Warsaw and the Province of Poznan. The Plebeian League around Walenty Stefański was also formed in Poznan . This also radiated into West Prussia .

In the spring of 1845 the Central Committee in Poznan decided to prepare for an uprising. The main reason was the fear that political reforms within the partitioning powers could spill the Polish identity. It was planned to attack the Prussian and Austrian units stationed there in Posen and Galicia and to trigger an uprising in the Russian part of Poland. This should turn into a general war. The aim was to rebuild the Polish state within the borders before the Polish partitions. In January 1846 it was decided in Cracow to form a national government headed by Karol Libelt .

fail

In Prussia, however, apart from a few skirmishes around Posen, the plans were not carried out because they had been betrayed to the police. The leaders were arrested; 245 Poles involved in the uprising were charged with high treason in the so-called Polish Trial in Berlin.

Another action, the Cracow uprising against Austria, also failed. There too, as in the Russian Congress Poland , the leaders of the underground movement were arrested.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Krzystof Makowski: The Grand Duchy of Posen in the revolutionary year of 1848. In: Rudolf Jaworski, Robert Luft (Ed.): 1848/49. Revolutions in East Central Europe. Munich 1996. ISBN 3-486-56012-3 , pp. 149–172, here p. 151.