Frankfurt attempt

The reactionary policy consistently pursued by Austria and Prussia, was sanctioned in Germany by the decisions of the Union Diet in June and July 1832, and caused a keen sense of hostility towards governments in general and the Diet in particular among young people, especially South German. Under the influence of this feeling, a circle of people quickly formed, consisting of scientists, students, military, artisans, etc. This circle attracted a lot of young people from different parts of Germany, entered into relations with German and Polish immigrants in Switzerland and France and decided to raid Frankfurt am Main , to blow up the Allied Sejm, to seize the Allied treasury, to seize the members of the Sejm and to appoint a provisional government. To support this movement, revolts of the people were to be organized in various other places.

The heads of the circle were Dr. Gert, von Rauschenplatt, Bunsen, Juho, Neuhof, Körner, Berkelman, Breudenstein, Stuttgart bookseller Frank and Lieutenant Kozeritz, who promised that the Württemberg army would join the movement. But the Württemberg did not join, the Southerners did not rise, nothing came of intercourse with the associations of many universities and with the villagers near Frankfurt. Despite this, in Bockenheim , on April 2, 1833, it was decided to carry out an attempt on the Allied Sejm the next day, although the conspirators received news that their intentions were known in Frankfurt and appropriate measures were taken.

At ten o'clock on the evening of April 3, 1833, 70 conspirators, with Gert, von Rauschenplatt and one Polish officer at the head, attacked the building of the police department, but the help expected from the citizens of Frankfurt and the surrounding peasants did not appear, and the entire enterprise collapsed in the most pitiful way.

Of the leaders of the movement, only Neuhof was captured and soon died in prison; 30 people in the attack were captured, nine were killed in a fight, twenty-four were seriously injured. Everywhere began arrests. On June 20, 1833, a central commission of inquiry was established; Austrian and Prussian troops occupied Frankfurt. The attempt (May 2, 1834) to free the prisoners failed; only one of them managed to escape.

By the verdict of the first instance, the defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment (October 20, 1836), from which many fled; the other seven were delivered to Mainz , from where they were supposed to go to America. The result of the attempt was a complete triumph of the reaction in Germany.

• Frankfurt's attempt // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.