Guelph Legion

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“ Hanoverian officers in Paris in 1868 ”
studio shot by an unidentified photographer

As Guelph Legion is called a volunteer corps of the former King of Hanover, George V of the dynasty of Guelph .

history

The Welfenlegion was founded after Prussia annexed the Kingdom of Hanover and other states in 1866 . It is true that the dethroned and landless Georg had released his officials and soldiers from the oath to free them from a conscience problem. At the same time he prepared a resistance among the people and elites, although broad circles had willingly resigned themselves to the annexation.

In the spring of 1867, the Luxembourg crisis increased the risk of war between France and Prussia. In May of that year, the Welfish Legion went to the Netherlands to attack Prussia from Arnhem in an emergency . At that time it only had 700 men, but it grew due to the Hanoverian refugees. The Netherlands expelled the Legion on June 14th, and unable to return to Hanover, they first went to Switzerland and, in 1868, to France. Because of the Legion, but also because Georg continued to claim his previous throne, the Prussian Landtag refused a settlement for the ex-king for a long time. The banker George V, Israel Simon , was arrested in Hanover, probably in connection with financial transactions relating to the formation of the troops . The last Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover, Adolf Ludwig Karl Graf von Platen-Hallermund , was sentenced in Prussia after returning from exile.

Estates

In connection with the Welf Legion, the central database of the papers of the Federal Archives lists the papers of Wilhelm and in particular Adolf von Tschirschnitz in the main state archive in Hanover .

See also

literature

  • Renate Duckstein: "The Welf Legion". The politics of King George of Hanover in the years 1866-1870 in connection with the great European politics. Dissertation [without year] printed in extracts in: Yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty Göttingen. 1923, pp. 46-49.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German constitutional history since 1789. Volume III: Bismarck and the realm. 3rd edition, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1988, pp. 586/587.
  2. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German constitutional history since 1789. Volume III: Bismarck and the realm. 3rd edition, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1988, pp. 587/589.
  3. ↑ Search results in the database