Teplice puncture
The Teplitz puncture was a punctuation agreed on August 1, 1819 in the north Bohemian city of Teplitz between the Empire of Austria and the Kingdom of Prussia about precautions against "endangering the state", the introduction of censorship and surveillance measures and the fight against liberalism and nationalism in the German Confederation . Austria was represented by Foreign Minister Metternich , Prussia by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and its state chancellor Hardenberg .
History and purpose of the puncture
Metternich had insisted on not going beyond the level of estates , i.e. representations in the individual states of the Federation, in the case of estates in the German Confederation . He had also recommended to the Prussian Police Minister Wittgenstein not to set up a state parliament, but to leave it with provincial estates. Because the smaller a parliament is and the smaller the group of people it represents, according to Metternich, the easier it would be to control it.
Provisions of puncturing
In the punctuation, Prussia declared that it was ready to forego the creation of imperial estates, as previously promised by the Prussian king - as an overall representation of the federation divided into estates - and therefore “for the representation of the nation no general representation of the people incompatible with the geographical and internal structure of his empire to be introduced ". In the 7th article of the punctuation, the intention was accordingly recorded to introduce state parliaments or provincial parliaments and to combine them into a central committee of state representatives. But the plan to convene such a body was ultimately not implemented.
meaning
Theodor Schieder writes about the Teplitz puncture that it “actually founded the restoration system in Germany”. The bilateral agreements between the two leading powers of the German Confederation formed the basis for the Karlovy Vary resolutions passed in the following weeks , which were then implemented throughout the German Confederation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.buehler-hd.de/gnet/ebuch/habenglossar.pdf
- ^ Christian Schmitz: The proposals and drafts for the implementation of the Prussian constitutional promise 1806-1819 . V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89971-791-4 . P. 317.
- ^ Otto Vossler : The revolution of 1848 in Germany . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1967. p. 42.
- ↑ Quoted from Theodor Schieder: From the German Confederation to the German Empire 1815–1871 (= Handbook of German History , 9th edition, paperback edition, Vol. 15). dtv, Munich 1984. ISBN 3-423-04215-X . P. 18.
- ^ Karl Otmar von Aretin : From the German Empire to the German Confederation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2nd edition 1993, p. 180.
- ↑ Theodor Schieder: From the German Confederation to the German Empire 1815–1871 . dtv, Munich 1984. p. 30.