Thursday, February 24, 2011

Heather Brooke New Clips

lease ago today, 218 years ago: The first democratic elections on German soil

In cannonade of Valmy brought the French Revolutionary Army in 1792 first coalition war attempt Prussian and Austrian troops crush Revolution in France to a halt. In their counterattack, the French invaded in September, in the Palatinate and occupied on 21 October 1792 Mainz.

Already on the day after Cast set up a 20 Mainz Jacobin Club , the other in Speyer and Worms followed. In the spirit of the Enlightenment, the German Jacobins promoted the ideals of the French Revolution: freedom, equality, fraternity and the establishment of a German Republic. Mid-December 1792, a survey in 40 communities that about three quarters of the voting population (men over 21) advocated a reorganization of the state order on the French model.

Elections to Rhenish-German National Convention on 24 February 1793, were also measured by the standards of the time, reasonably democratic. 130 towns and villages in the areas of the left Rhine and south of the Nahe sent their representatives to Mainz .

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