Mainz Republic
The Republic of Mainz was the first democratic state in the current German territory.[1] It was in Mainz. It was made because of the French Revolutionary Wars. It lasted from March to July 1793.
Republic of Mainz / Rhenish-German Free State | |||||||||
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| March – July 1793 | |||||||||
| Status | Client state of France | ||||||||
| Capital | Mainz | ||||||||
| Government | Revolutionary republic | ||||||||
| Historical era | French Revolutionary Wars | ||||||||
• Occupied by Custine | 21 October 1792 | ||||||||
• | 18 March 1793 | ||||||||
• Delegates sent to Paris | 23 March 1793 | ||||||||
• National Convention approved accession to French Republic | 30 March 1793 | ||||||||
• | 22 July 1793 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
Liberty pole, erected in Mainz in January 1793
Mainz Republic Media
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References
- ↑ The short-lived republic is often ignored in identifying the "first German democracy", in favour of the Weimar Republic; e.g. "the failure of the first German democracy after the First World War (the Weimar Republic)..." (Peter J. Burnell, Democracy Assistance: international co-operation for democratization 2000:131), or Ch. 3. 'The First Attempt at Democracy, 1918–1933', in Michael Balfour, West Germany: a contemporary history, 1982:60
Further reading
- Blanning, T. C. W. (1983). The French Revolution in Germany. Occupation and Resistance in the Rhineland 1792–1802. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-822564-4.
- Blanning, T. C. W. (1974). Reform and Revolution in Mainz 1743–1803. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20418-6.
- Störkel, Arno (1994). The Defenders of Mayence in 1792: A Portrait of a Small European Army at the Outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. Canberra: The University of New South Wales.