Inceptive problems Erfurt Union



erfurt union parliament @ st. augustine s monastery


despite this, elections erfurt parliament, held in january 1850, received little popular support, or recognition. democrats universally boycotted election, , electoral participation below fifty percent, saxony , hanover exercised reservation leave alliance of 3 kings. no government in end agreed constitution, , though document readily accepted gotha party (incidentally narrowly defeated in elections), never took effect. erfurt parliament never materialised.


meanwhile, austria, having overcome difficulties — fall of metternich, abdication of ferdinand , constitutional revolts in italy , hungary — began renewed active resistance against prussia s union plan. saxon , hanoverian withdrawals alliance prussia can attributed in part austrian encouragement. vienna contemplated restoration of german confederation recalling german diet, , rallied prussian nobility , feudal-corporate , anti-national groups around prussian general ludwig friedrich leopold von gerlach increasingly oppose union policy.


in prussia itself, congress of princes held in berlin in may 1850 explicitly decided against merits of introducing constitution @ point in time. following prussian king s (and ministers ) weakening volition german unification, radowitz s influence declined. prussia s union policy further weakened austrian urges restoration of federal assembly in frankfurt in september same year.







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