Frankfurt Parliament

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The Frankfurt Parliament was the first freely elected all-German national assembly, convened in 1848–1849 to draft a constitution and attempt the unification of the German states.

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instanceOf constituent assembly
national assembly
alsoKnownAs Frankfurt National Assembly
Frankfurter Nationalversammlung
appliesToJurisdiction German states
convenedIn Frankfurt am Main
country German Confederation
dissolvedIn Stuttgart
drafted Frankfurt Constitution
endTime 31 May 1849
followedBy Rump Parliament in Stuttgart
hasCause Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
hasChairperson Eduard Simson
Heinrich von Gagern
hasGoal create a unified German nation-state
draft a liberal constitution for Germany
hasLanguage German
hasLegacy influenced later German constitutional developments
symbol of German liberal and national movement
hasNumberOfMembers approximately 585
hasOutcome failure to achieve German unification
hasPart Augenblick faction
Braunfels faction
Casino faction
Deutscher Hof faction
Donnersberg faction
Landsberg faction
Pariser Hof faction
Steinernes Haus faction
Westendhall faction
Württemberger Hof faction
hasPoliticalIdeology constitutionalism
liberalism
nationalism
hasSignificantMember Arnold Ruge
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann
linked to: Friedrich Dahlmann

Friedrich Daniel Bassermann
Friedrich Hecker
Jacob Grimm
Johann Gustav Droysen
Lothar Bucher
Ludwig Uhland
Robert Blum
legalForm constitutional convention
legislativeBodyFor German Confederation
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Free City of Frankfurt
mainSubject German constitution
unification of Germany
metIn Paulskirche
precededBy Vorparlament
significantEvent March Revolution
adoption of the Frankfurt Constitution
offer of the imperial crown to King Frederick William IV of Prussia
rejection of the imperial crown by Frederick William IV
startTime 18 May 1848
timePeriod Revolutions of 1848
linked to: 1848 revolutions

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Johann Gustav Droysen participatedIn Frankfurt Parliament
Constitution of 4 November 1848 draftedBy Constituent Assembly of 1848
linked to: Frankfurt Parliament
Paulskirche significantEvent Frankfurt Parliament 1848–1849
linked to: Frankfurt Parliament
Revolutions of 1848 in the German states hasCentralInstitution Frankfurt National Assembly
linked to: Frankfurt Parliament
Unification of Germany significantEvent Frankfurt Parliament
Frankfurt Parliament alsoKnownAs Frankfurter Nationalversammlung
linked to: Frankfurt Parliament
Frankfurt Parliament alsoKnownAs Frankfurt National Assembly
linked to: Frankfurt Parliament
Kleindeutschland solution debatedAt Frankfurt Parliament
Paulskirche Constitution draftedBy Frankfurt Parliament
German National Assembly alsoKnownAs Frankfurt Parliament
German National Assembly alsoKnownAs Frankfurter Nationalversammlung
linked to: Frankfurt Parliament