Association for Democratic Monarchy
As a political association, the Association for Democratic Monarchy was the preliminary form of a political party of the democratic movement during the German Revolution of 1848/1849 . It was founded by the businessman Lorenz Cantador and the lawyer Hugo Wesendonck in Düsseldorf in April 1848 for the territory of the Düsseldorf government district and aimed at realizing the idea of popular sovereignty in the form of a constitutional monarchy in the Kingdom of Prussia and in the German Confederation as well as German unity in the Sense of the greater German solution .
history
When after the February Revolution of 1848 in Prussia the March Revolution had broken out and the " March demands " of the revolutionaries a Prussian electoral law for the election of a Prussian National Assembly and a federal election law for election of a National Assembly in Frankfurt allowed was in Dusseldorf, the parliamentary seat of the Prussian Rhine province , the club founded for democratic monarchy . On April 18, 1848, the association gave itself a statute , according to which it was the purpose of the association to "instruct internally and externally on the principle of popular rule, with a prince at the head". Under the chairmanship of Hugo Wesendonck, the association, anchored in the liberal Rhenish bourgeoisie , was able to gain almost 2000 members. In addition to Cantador and Wesendonck, Joseph Euler , Anton Bloem , Moritz Geisenheimer , Eduard Hölterhoff, Moritz Seelig and the government councilor Carl Quentin were among his management team. For the favor of the voters, the association competed above all with the Volksklub , also founded in Düsseldorf in spring 1848 , which, under the leadership of the notary candidate Julius Wulff, sought a republican form of government and, under the catchphrase "social democracy", improvements for the dispossessed classes. In the primary elections in early May 1848, the club won, and Hugo Wesendonck was sent to the Frankfurt National Assembly as a Düsseldorf deputy. The association members Joseph Euler and Anton Bloem were elected to the Prussian National Assembly.
The venue for the association was the Plenke tavern in Düsseldorf's Bolkerstraße , in the back of which Heinrich Heine was born in 1797 . Today the building is used as the Heine House .
In order to implement the “ homage decree ” of the Reich Minister of War Eduard von Peucker and to celebrate the establishment of a provisional central authority under Johann von Österreich as Reich Administrator , the association organized the “Festival of German Unity” on August 6, 1848 on Düsseldorf's Friedrichsplatz . After speeches by Lorenz Cantador, head of the Düsseldorf vigilante , and Wilhelm Dietze , member of the Frankfurt pre-parliament and Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf, a Germania statue designed by Karl Ferdinand Sohn and executed by Dietrich Meinardus was festively illuminated to the sound of the song Des Deutschen Vaterland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Bleiber, Karl Obermann: Men of the Revolution of 1848 , Volume 1, edited by the Prehistory and History of the Revolution of 1848/49 Working Group, Central Institute for History (Berlin, East), Akademie-Verlag (GDR), 1988, p. 104
- ↑ Düsseldorf during the revolutionary years 1848/49 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal jaegercorps1844.de , accessed on October 25, 2015
- ^ Writings of the Institute for History: General and German History, Volumes 32–33, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1968, p. 104 f. and 114
- ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt : Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf. 9th, revised edition, Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 108.
- ^ Horst Heidermann : Heinrich Christoph Kolbe and the portrait painters of the Wuppertal bourgeoisie . In: Geschichte in Wuppertal , vol. 18, p. 93 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. )
