Imperial reign 1849
The Reichsregentschaft in 1849 was a revolutionary organ in Germany , which had been installed by the rump parliament . The rump parliament consisted of those members of the Frankfurt National Assembly who had decided to move to Stuttgart at the end of May 1849.
The imperial government wanted to be head of the empire and government at the same time and declared the governor deposed. However, the Reichsverweser ignored the deposition, just as the Württemberg troops did not submit to the Reich regency. The Reichsregentschaft itself only officiated from June 6th to 18th, 1849, the members had to flee from Württemberg like the other MPs.
prehistory
In April and May 1849 the Frankfurt National Assembly got into a serious crisis after the Prussian king rejected the imperial crown and the imperial constitution. Reichsverweser Archduke Johann refused to campaign for the constitution. A committee of thirty should make suggestions on how to proceed. The report of May 18 provided for a Reich regency consisting of five members of the National Assembly. A minority committee, on the other hand, wanted to elect a governor from among the ruling princes if possible. A majority in the National Assembly wanted a Reich Governor (126 votes to 116). Because enemy troops were approaching, about a hundred MPs left Frankfurt to continue their work in Stuttgart.
Commitment and efforts
The rump parliament in Stuttgart set up a provisional imperial government on June 6, 1849 and elected its five members: Franz Raveaux , Heinrich Simon (both from the left-wing Westendhall faction ), Carl Vogt , Friedrich Schüler (both from the left-wing Deutscher Hof faction ) and August Mug . You should be both head of the Reich and the Reich government. On June 16, the rump parliament declared the continued administration of Archduke Johann to be illegal. The rump parliament and imperial government did not, however, have the power to assert themselves. Apart from the controversial quorum of the rump parliament, it was not able to remove the imperial administrator by resolution, but would have had to change or repeal the corresponding law of June 28, 1848.
In a note dated June 9, 1849, addressed to the Württemberg government, the German Reich Ministry Wittgenstein called the Reich regency illegal. Wittgenstein threatened military intervention as did Prussia. The imperial government tried in vain to subordinate itself to the Württemberg Reich General, and when it tried to give instructions to the Württemberg government, the smoldering conflict with it escalated. On June 17, the government banned the Reichsregentschaft from any activity in Württemberg. Wuerttemberg troops dissolved the rump parliament on June 18, and the members fled abroad.
See also
Web links
- Holdings in the Federal Archives (overview)
supporting documents
- ↑ Manfred Botzenhart: German Parliamentarism in the Revolutionary Period 1848–1850. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977, pp. 702/703.
- ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German constitutional history since 1789. Volume II: The struggle for unity and freedom 1830 to 1850 . 3rd edition, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [ua] 1988, pp. 878/879.
- ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German constitutional history since 1789. Volume II: The struggle for unity and freedom 1830 to 1850 . 3rd edition, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [et al.] 1988, pp. 880-882.
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