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German revolutions of 1848–1849
Contents
Events leading up to the revolutions
Austria
Baden
The Palatinate
Prussia
Saxony
The Rhineland or Rhenish Prussia
Bavaria
Greater Poland
National Assembly in Frankfurt
Backlash in Prussia
Failure of the revolution
Peasant success of the revolution
In popular culture
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links

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For other revolutions in Germany, see German revolution (disambiguation). German part of the Revolutions of 1848
German revolutions of
1848–49
Part of the Revolutions of 1848
Origin of the Flag of Germany: Cheering revolutionaries in Berlin, on March 19, 1848
Date
February 1848 – July 1849
Location
German states, Central Europe
Result
Rebellion riot struck down
Establish German state and
introduce liberal constitution
Dissolution of German Confederation
Belligerents
German Confederation
Saxony
Prussia
German Empire
German Revolutionaries
Commanders and leaders
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony
Frederick William IV of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich
Strength
approximately 45,000 German Federal Army Imperial Army
400,000 among peasants and workers
The painting Germania, possibly by Philipp Veit, hung inside the Frankfurt parliament, the first national parliament in German history
The German revolutions of 1848–49 ( German: Deutsche Revolution 1848/1849 ), the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution ( German: Märzrevolution ), were initially part of the Revolutions of 1848 that broke out in many European countries. They were a series of loosely coordinated protests and rebellions in the states of the German Confederation, including the Austrian Empire. The revolutions, which stressed pan-Germanism, demonstrated popular discontent with the traditional, largely autocratic political structure of the thirty-nine independent states of the Confederation that inherited the German territory of the former Holy Roman Empire after its dismantlement as a result of the Napoleonic Wars. This process began in the mid 1840s. The middle-class elements were committed to liberal principles, while the working class sought radical improvements to their working and living conditions. As the middle class and working class components of the Revolution split, the conservative aristocracy defeated it.