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This article argues that the German Confederation — deutscher Bund — (1815–66)was a form of rule built on early modern republican political theory. It was a ‘Compound Republic’ form of rule constructed to prevent the emergence of a system of sovereign German states as well as a single sovereign German state.
- Michael Jonas
Introduction. In 1815 the remains of the Holy Roman Empire, embarrassed by Napoleon’s conquest of their land, organized into the German Confederation. Thirty-nine independent countries were struggling to restore themselves after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo and chart their future.
On 28 March 1849, a year of deliberations reached its conclusion when 405 members of the first freely elected parliament for the whole of Germany, gathered in St Paul’s Church, Frankfurt am Main, appended their signatures to a modern, liberal constitution – the Frankfurt Constitution. It was far ahead of its time.
The German Confederation was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved in 1806 in reaction to the Napoleonic Wars.
2 The German Empire,c.1024–1125 17 3 Europe at the time of the Reformation 35 4 Germany after the Peace of Westphalia, 1648 61 5 The growth of Brandenburg-Prussia to 1786 80 6 The German Confederation in 1815. (After M. Hughes, NationalismandSociety:Germany1800–1945(London: Edward Arnold, 1988)) 102
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1851, and contributed more to German unification than most historical accounts have indicated. Legislatively, the great-est achievement of the Confederation was the commercial code, ratified by the federal diet in 1861 and continued in force under the German Empire until 1897. As an important precursor of the political unification of Germany, the
25 de ene. de 2019 · Summary. This chapter on the German Confederation examines the largest cornerstone of the new European security system, designed to stabilise the European centre and provide an institutional structure for the cooperation of the thirty-eight remaining German states in relation to the other powers.
