Title: Frankfurt Parliament - Wikipedia
Headings: Frankfurt Parliament
Frankfurt Parliament
Contents
Background
Napoleonic upheavals and German Confederation
The 1840s
The March Revolution
The Pre-Parliament
Preparing for the Elections
Organisation of the Nationalversammlung
Assembly in the St. Paul's Church
Form and Function of the Parliament
Presidents of the National Assembly
Calculating the number of deputies
Social background of the deputies
Factions and committees
Provisional central power
Formation of the Central Power
Practical tasks of the Provisional Central Power
Prime Ministers of the Provisional Government
Relations with the National Assembly
Main political issues
Schleswig-Holstein Question and development of political camps
Opening hostilities
Arranging an armistice
The Septemberunruhen
The German Reichsflotte and financial problems
The German army and rising confidence of the princes
The military parade of August 6th
The Cologne cathedral festival
Oktoberaufstand and execution of Blum
Defining "Germany"
Schleswig
Bohemia and Moravia
Posen and the Demarkationslinie
Limburg
Austrian Littoral and Trentino
Auschwitz and Zator
Greater German or smaller German solution
Austria's protests
Drafting the Imperial Constitution
Basic rights
Qualifying the Emperor
The first and second readings
Passage of the Constitution
Head of state and Kaiserdeputation
Rump parliament and dissolution
The May Uprisings
Break with the Provisional Central Power
Removal of the National Assembly to Stuttgart
The Provisional Regency and People's Army
Dissolution
Aftermath
Long-term political effects
See also
Bibliography
References
Sources

Content: The unrest that resulted from the 1830 French July Revolution led to a temporary reversal of that trend, but after the demonstration for civic rights and national unity at the 1832 Hambach Festival, and the abortive attempt at an armed rising in the 1833 Frankfurter Wachensturm, the pressure on representatives of constitutional or democratic ideas was raised through measures such as censorship and bans on public assemblies. The 1840s
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The 1840s began with the Rhine Crisis, a primarily diplomatic scandal caused by the threat from the French prime minister Adolphe Thiers to invade Germany in a dispute between Paris and the four other Great Powers (including Austria and Prussia) over the Middle East. The threat alarmed the German Confederate Diet ( Bundesversammlung ), which was made up of representatives of the individual princes, and the only institution representing the whole German Confederation. The Diet voted to extend the Fortresses of the German Confederation ( Bundesfestungen) at Mainz, Ulm, and Rastatt, while the Kingdom of Bavaria developed the fortress at Germersheim. Patriotic feelings of the public were effectively captured in the poem Die Wacht am Rhein ( Watch on the Rhine) by Max Schneckenburger, and in songs such as "Der Deutsche Rhein" and the " Lied der Deutschen ", the national anthem of Germany since 1922. The mid-1840s saw an increased frequency of internal crises. This was partially the result of large-scale political developments, such as the escalation of the future of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein and the erection of the Bundesfestungen. Additionally, a series of bad harvests in parts of Germany, notably the southwest, led to widely spread famine-related unrest in 1845 and 1846. The changes caused by the beginnings of industrialisation exacerbated social and economic tensions considerably, especially in Saxony and Silesia .