Reich Commissioner 1848/1849
A Reichskommissar (sometimes also: Reichskommissär or Reichsbevollmächtigte ) was in the years 1848/1849 an agent of the German central authority , the provisional government for the then emerging German Reich . The Reich Commissioners mostly fulfilled specific tasks in a single state.
function
The Reich Ministry of the Interior sent Reich commissioners primarily to trouble spots of the revolution, to mediate with the governments of the individual states or for other tasks. In doing so, they received a power of attorney from the imperial administrator , which theoretically mostly assigned them all the necessary powers. The Reich Commissioners could only achieve something if the individual state and its authorities wanted to cooperate.
Reichskommissar Eduard Souchay, for example, set up a governor government in revolutionary Schleswig-Holstein , which was accepted there in the situation at the time; This government did not resign until 1851, long after the end of central power itself. Friedrich Ferdinand von Ammon and other Reich Commissioners had been sent to small German states in order to reduce the number of small states by amalgamating them (so-called mediation question ).
list
- Friedrich Ferdinand von Ammon , Reich Commissioner for Anhalt-Bernburg, November 4, 1848 to January 25, 1849
- Moritz Adolf Briegleb , Reich Commissioner for Saxony, May 7-12, 1849
- Ysaak Brons , Reich Commissioner for the Regulation of the Affairs of the Hamburg Flotilla, January 24 to March 13, 1849
- Anton Christ , Reich Commissioner for Baden, May 16 to June 1, 1849
- Jacob Bernhard Eisenstuck , Reich Commissioner for the Palatinate, May 5 to May 11, 1849
- Albrecht Ernst Stellanus Reichsgraf von Holtzendorff , Reich Commissioner for Thuringia, December 20, 1848 to April 19, 1849
- Gustav Ludwig Emil Graf von Keller , Reich Commissioner for the Southwest German States, September 23 to October 28, 1848
- Theodor Friedrich Knyn , Reich Commissioner for the casino in Homburg, May 3 to 9, 1849
- Karl Moering , Reich Commissioner for the takeover of the Hamburg flotilla, October 5-22, 1848
- Johann Ludwig Mosle , Reich Commissioner for Austria, October 12 to November 6, 1848
- Ludwig von Mühlenfels , Reich Commissioner for Thuringia, October 5, 1848 to February 10, 1849
- Martin Gotthard Oberländer , Reich Commissioner for Reuss Younger Line, July 31 to September 28, 1848
- Adolf Xaver Paur , Reich Commissioner in Austria to investigate the execution of Robert Blum , November 14 to December 14, 1848
- Joseph (Ritter von) Pözl , Reich Commissioner in Austria to investigate the execution of Robert Blum, November 14 to December 14, 1848
- Franz Raveaux , Reich Commissioner for the People's Assembly in Offenburg for the implementation of the Reich Constitution, May 12-13, 1849
- Friedrich von Schäffer-Bernstein , Reich Commissioner for defining the demarcation line in Posen, October 22nd to December 22nd, 1848
- Martin Eduard Sigismund Simson , Reich Commissioner in Prussia for the settlement of the constitutional conflict, November 18 to December 22, 1848
- Eduard Franz Souchay , Reich Commissioner for the establishment of governorship in Schleswig-Holstein, March 13-27, 1849
- Karl Johann Wilhelm von Stedman , Reich Commissioner for Schleswig-Holstein, September 20, 1848 to April 10, 1849
- Daniel Friedrich Gottlob Teichert , Reich Commissioner for the takeover of the Hamburg flotilla, October 5-22, 1848
- Christian Bernhard von Watzdorf , Reich Commissioner for Saxony, May 6-10, 1849
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wedding , Reich Commissioner for the Purchase of Ships, January 19 to July 10, 1849
- Karl Theodor Welcker , Reich Commissioner for Lauenburg, July 10, 1848 to?; Reich Commissioner in Austria, October 12 to November 6, 1848
- Friedrich Gerhard Levin Freiherr von Wintzingerode , Reich Commissioner for Lauenburg, April 20 to May 21, 1849
- Friedrich Joseph Zell , Reich Commissioner for Baden, May 16 to June 1, 1849
See also
Web links
- Reich Commissioners , Federal Archives
supporting documents
- ↑ Thomas Stockinger: Ministries out of nowhere: The establishment of the provisional central authority 1848. In: Yearbook of the Hambach Society 2013, pp. 59–84, here p. 71.