!!!Frankfurter Nationalversammlung

Frankfurter Nationalversammlung (Frankfurt Parliament, German National 
Assembly), the parliamentary body elected by all lands belonging to 
the  Deutscher Bund after the  Revolution of 1848 broke out; the 
Frankfurter Nationalversammlung met for the first time on May 18, 1848 
in Frankfurt am Main, the seat of the German Bundestag, in St. Paul's 
Church; the Frankfurter Nationalversammlung held debates on a 
constitution and named Archduke  Johann Regent of the Empire. In the 
beginning of 1849 the Frankfurter Nationalversammlung voted to make 
the German Confederacy a hereditary empire under Prussian leadership, 
from which Austria was to be excluded. When the Prussian king was 
elected emperor (which he, however, refused), Austria withdrew its 
deputies on April 4, 1849. With Austria's withdrawal came the 
dissolution of the inconclusive Frankfurter Nationalversammlung. Among 
Austria's 115 representatives were V. v.  Andrian-Werburg, 
A. A. Count Auersperg (Pseudonym A.  Gruen), H.  Laube, 
A. v.  Schmerling, F.  Schuselka and B.  Weber.

!Literature
W. Fiedler (ed.), Die erste deutsche Nationalversammlung, 
1980; G. Hildebrandt, Die Paulskirche, 1986.


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