Verona Congress

The Verona Congress called a conference of the Holy Alliance from October 20 to December 14, 1822 the fourth and last of the monarchical congresses . The meeting took place in Verona , which was under Austrian rule at the time .

Contemporary caricature of the Congress of Verona (1822)

Participants were:

1. Emperor Franz I of Austria
   • accompanied by Foreign Minister Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich
2. Tsar Alexander I of Russia
3. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia
   • accompanied by Karl August von Hardenberg , who dies during the congress
4. King Ferdinand I of Naples and Sicily
5. Duke of Wellington , at the request of the British Foreign Secretary George Canning
6. the French envoy, Foreign Minister Mathieu de Montmorency-Laval with François-René de Chateaubriand .

Congress refused to recognize the Greek Declaration of Independence .

Against the objection of England, the intervention in Spain was decided and France was given its military implementation. The monarchs wanted the Spanish Bourbons to return to power. Canning advocated non-interference in Spanish internal affairs on this issue. The resolution, which was taken nevertheless, was the reason for England to renounce the Holy Alliance and in 1824 to recognize the South American states that had fallen away from Spain .

Furthermore, it was agreed that Austrian occupation in Piedmont to limit in time and in Naples a troop reductions made.

The Verona Congress was an expression of the ever increasing breakdown of the Holy Alliance.

The Prussian king's entourage included Alexander von Humboldt , who served his ruler as a cultural and historical guide on excursions.

literature

• Volker Schäfer: Verona, Congress of. In: Gerhard Taddey (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German history . Events, institutions, people. From the beginning to the surrender in 1945. 3rd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-81303-3 , pp. 1291f.

Web links

• Power congresses 1818–1822. Digital edition, ed. by Karin Schneider with the assistance of Stephan Kurz, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Research on Modern Times and Contemporary History 2018. http://maechtekongresse.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ Scientific digital edition of the conference files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hanno Beck: Alexander von Humboldt . tape II . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1961, p. 56-58 .