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  f. Germany. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
This decision laid the groundwork for the Frankfurt Parliament.
The assembly was supposed to cooperate with the government in creating a constitution, but the majority of the delegates took their task to be that of a constituent assembly.
The Assembly of Delegates of the North German Handicraft and Industrial Class meeting in Hamburg called for an artisans' conference to meet in Frankfurt.
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  Frankfurt Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Frankfurt Parliament is the name of the German National Assembly founded during the Revolutions of 1848 that tried to unite Germany in a democratic way.
Meeting in the city of Frankfurt am Main, the assembly was attended by 831 deputies.
At the same time as the events in Frankfurt, a Danish constitutional convention had assembled in Copenhagen, and the question of extending the draft constitution to Schleswig quickly arose, since Schleswig's population was mostly Danish and felt threatened by the prospect of becoming a small minority in a new Germany.
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 History of Frankfurt City History
Frankfurt is named a "Free Imperial City" and is thus member of the Reichstag, i.e., a self-governing city-state dutybound only to the empero.
Frankfurt, as an imperial city, is requested by King Sigismund to partake in the Council of Constance.
Frankfurt is chosen as headquarters for the unified economic area of the American, British and French occupation zones.
www.frankfurt-tourismus.de /cms/tourismussuite/en/tourist_information_frankfurt/frankfurt_city_history.html   (1276 words)

  
 Revolutions of 1848 in the German states - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In November, the king dissolved the new Prussian parliament and put forth a constitution of his own which was based upon the work of the assembly, yet maintaining the ultimate authority of the king.
The National Assembly lost reputation in the eyes of the German public when Prussia carried through its own political intentions in the Schleswig-Holstein question without the prior consent of Parliament.
On April 2, 1849, a delegation of the National Assembly met with King Frederick William IV in Berlin and offered him the crown of the Emperor under this new constitution.
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 Frankfurt travel guide
Frankfurt am Main, also known as Mainhattan and Bankfurt, is a rich city in central Germany with 650.000 inhabitants.
Frankfurt is a city with two faces: on the one hand it is the cut-throat financial capital of Germany and on the other it is a civilized place which spends more per year on the arts than any other city in Europe.
In fact, Frankfurt is a thriving cultural centre for the whole of Hesse, with a good selection of theatres and galleries, and an even better range of museums, amongst them some architectural highlights.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Frankfurt Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
FRANKFURT PARLIAMENT [Frankfurt Parliament] 1848-49, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on May 18, 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution that swept the German states early in 1848.
The parliament was called by a preliminary assembly of German liberals in Mar., 1848, and its members were elected by direct manhood suffrage.
Frederick William IV of Prussia was chosen emperor but refused to accept the crown from a popularly elected assembly and the entire scheme foundered.
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 Frankfurt Hotel Discounts | PerfectPlacesTravel.com
To the east of the Hauptwache is the Zeil, Frankfurt's busiest shopping street, and to the west is Grosse Bockenheimer Strasse, known locally as the Fressgasse (or "chow-down alley") for its food markets and eating establishments.
Frankfurt's skyline is one of a kind in Germany, and from it the city gets the nickname "Mainhattan." The need to rebuild after World War II led to the present-day mix of 18th-century buildings, modern and postmodern skyscrapers, functional office blocks and museums.
The classic Frankfurt drink is apfelwein (known in the local dialect as ebbelwoi), an apple wine served in a decorative clay pitcher, called a bembel.
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 Neue Rheinsiche Zeitung No. 150 November 1848
The German Parliament is in Berlin, and the Prussian Parliament in Frankfurt.
The National Assembly in Berlin is not a "fragment", it is a complete entity, for it constitutes a quorum.
But the Brandenburg Assembly at Frankfurt will become a "fragment", for the inevitable resignation of the 150 deputies will surely be followed by many others who do not wish to set up a Federal Diet at Frankfurt.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1848/11/23a.htm   (441 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Frankfurt Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Frankfurt Parliament FRANKFURT PARLIAMENT [Frankfurt Parliament] 1848-49, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on May 18, 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution that swept the German states early in 1848.
A member of the Frankfurt Parliament, he was a leading proponent of German unification under the leadership of his native Prussia.
A towering achievement, but no complacency: while Frankfurt has worked hard to become continental Europe's pre-eminent financial centre, it faces a challenge in retaining the title.
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In the 1806 contract of the Rhine Union, Frankfurt is given to the last Mainz archbishop Karl von Dalberg and is made a grand duchy in 1810.
The economic situation of Frankfurt in the 19th century is partially impaired by the establishment of the Prussian-German customs union and the restrictive trade policies of the city.
Frankfurt has to give up its role as the central bank and bourse area only one time-namely during World War II-to Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, but won it back in 1945.
www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de /~sqm2001/chron3.html   (743 words)

  
 Frankfurt,Germany - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Frankfurt am Main, city in west central Germany, in Hessen, a port on the Main River.
Frankfurt an der Oder, city, northeastern Germany, in Brandenburg, on the Odra (Oder) River, near Berlin.
Meanwhile, the Frankfurt Assembly wrote a liberal constitution for a united Germany under a hereditary emperor.
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 ENQA - News Detail
In terms of number of votes in General Assemblies, the Board decided to include in the regulations, to be presented to the Frankfurt General Assembly for consideration, that in the new ENQA there should be one vote per one agency.
In order for the General Assembly to decide on the exact function of Board members, the Board decided to compile a list of its members indicating their position in the Board (member or co-opted member, number of years to serve in the Board).
As the finalisation of ENQA becoming an association was postponed for the next General Assembly (4 November 2004), the Board decided to discuss the proceedings of accepting new member agencies in the first Board meeting after Frankfurt to take place on 23 November 2004.
www.enqa.eu /newsitem.lasso?id=34820   (1673 words)

  
 Frankfurt Online Travel Guide
Since the 11th century, Frankfurt has organized international fairs, in the beginning, merchants had their stalls in the center of town, in front of the Roemer, today exhibitions take place on the fairgrounds near the station (Messe Frankfurt, S-Bahn-Haltestelle, S3,S4,S5,S6, Haltestelle Festhalle/Messe, U4 oder Straßenbahn 16,17 ab Hauptbahnhof).
The Justinuskirche is the oldest church of Frankfurt.
Frankfurt has a number of well-known clubs, with an up to 50 year tradition and the appropriately mixed audience of all ages, amongst them the Jazzkeller near Fressgass (station Alte Oper, U6, U7), and, not far from there, the Club Voltaire and the Cookys.
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 Frankfurt Parliament: 1848
A national assembly was formed to write a constitution and to end the uprisings in several principalities.
The Frankfurt Parliament was born to draft a constitution for all of Germany.
On March 28, 1849, the Frankfurt Parliament adopted a constitution for Germany.
www.thenagain.info /WebChron/WestEurope/FrankfurtParl.htm   (632 words)

  
 Frankfurt Parliament. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The parliament was called by a preliminary assembly of German liberals in Mar., 1848, and its members were elected by direct manhood suffrage.
Having suspended (June, 1848) the diet of the German Confederation, the assembly appointed Archduke John of Austria regent of Germany and head of the provisional (and virtually nonexistent) executive power.
Frederick William IV of Prussia was chosen emperor but refused to accept the crown from a popularly elected assembly and the entire scheme foundered.
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 Germany, September Crisis 1848   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The crisis was set off by a conflict between the Prussian crown and the Berlin Constituent assembly because of the demand for the dismissal of reactionary officers and the attitude of the Frankfurt National Assembly to the armistice of Malmš in the German-Danish war over Schleswig-Holstein.
The national assembly on September 8 initially rejected the armistice of Malmö; then, it reconsidered its hasty action on Septermber 16 and accepted the treaty by a narrow majority in a second vote.
In protesting against the majority of the national assembly's approval of the armistice of Malmö on September 16, a popular assembly of about 15,000 participants convened by the democratic and the workers' association in Frankfurt on September 17 demanded that the left withdraw from the national assembly and to constitute a revolutionary counter-parliament.
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 EuroGeographics General Assembly - Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Frankfurt, Germany--From September 30th — October 2nd 2002 the 2nd EuroGeographics General Assembly took place in the beautiful city of Frankfurt, Germany.
The host for this event was the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) in Frankfurt, formerly known as the "Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie", this year celebrating its 50th anniversary.
It turned out to be an excellent organized General Assembly, in a fine atmosphere and with very good facilities.
www.geoplace.com /pressrelease/pressdetail_print.asp?id=3588   (369 words)

  
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 © Biography: Major Political Opponents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
He was involved in preparations for a German National Assembly and elected a deputy to the assembly.
During the 1848 revolution, Gagern was first president of the Frankfurt National Assembly and later prime minister of the provisional central government it had created, largely on his initiative.
In June 1848 Camphausen resigned in the face of increased opposition from the Prussian constituent assembly and Hansemann became the key figure in the new administration.
www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~jfec/cal/1848/answers/7i_bio.htm   (2125 words)

  
 The Revolutions of 1848: Essay by Mike White
The Frankfurt Parliament was established to draw up a constitution for the unification.
In May of 1848, members of the Frankfurt Parliament, or the National Assembly convened in Frankfurt to begin the writing of the new constitution.
But the bright prospects of the new Assembly began to fade as members of the Assembly began to dispute over which territory to include in the new Germany.
www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/projects/revs/rev_of_1848.htm   (1142 words)

  
 Country Studies - Austria: Revolutionary Rise and Fall
German nationalists and liberals convened an assembly in Frankfurt in May 1848 that suspended the diet of the German Confederation and took tentative steps toward German unification.
Although ethnic Germans from Bohemia were participating in the Frankfurt assembly, Czech nationalists and liberals rejected Bohemian participation in the German nation being born in Frankfurt.
The government gave concessions that appeared to endorse this plan, and the Czechs convened an Austro-Slavic congress in Prague in June as a counterpart to the Frankfurt assembly.
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The working class in the workshops, in fear that their social republic was disappearing, attacked and took over the Assembly on May 15, setting up their own gov't, but were then overthrown by the National Guard, and the Assembly was back with anger.
The Frankfurt Assembly tried to unify this area with the common language, but the various groups of people presented an obstacle to the Assembly.
The Assembly was not able to persuade these groups to join the larger nation and unite.
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 Gabriel Riesser - a Famous Jewish "Father"of the German Constitution of 1849 -
The more Austria isolated itself politically, the more the members of the National Assembly changed their political positions and in the end there was only the alternative between the "kleindeutsch-erbkaiserliche" solution and the complete failure of the constitutional efforts.
This private assembly which was not an elected but a convened one, determined the democratic foundation of the National Assembly.
Today we know that although the Assembly in St. Paul's Church failed to transform Germany into a federal union with a liberal constitution, the concepts that originated from it were of lasting significance.
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 Frankfurt hotels. City overview and main attractions.
For many, Frankfurt is primarily ‘Mainhattan’, city of finance and bussiness, but a closer look reveals a metropolis of many charms: The picturesque houses of the beautifully restored Romerberg in the city centre and the unique ‘Museum Mile’ along the banks of the Main river.
Frankfurt's international trade fairs in spring and autumn bring some 1.5 million visitors to the city and its Messe Frankfurt (fairgrounds), often causing a logjam at hotels.
Frankfurt today is both a much visited business center and a worthy tourist destination with a distinct personality.
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 AllRefer.com - Frankfurt Parliament (German History) - Encyclopedia
Frankfurt Parliament, 1848–49, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on May 18, 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution that swept the German states early in 1848.
In the meantime the revolutionary movement was suppressed, and the very basis of the Frankfurt assembly destroyed.
Frederick William attempted to substitute a union scheme of his own, but his efforts were smothered by Austria through the Treaty of OlmUtz (1850), which restored the German Confederation.
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The Frankfurt Assembly was called in 1848 when revolutions were gripping Europe.
The assembly consisted of around 500 upper middle class men trying to form a unified, democratic form of government to unite all Germans.
The Assembly illustrated the sharp differences between classes and lock of a unified coalition to create a representative government that could take down the monarchy.
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 1848 german revolution - Frankfurt Vorparlament
The explicit purpose of your assembly is to put a German people's association [Volksbund] in the place of the existing federation of princes, to bring the German nation to real unity, to strengthen German national feeling, and thus to raise Germany's power both internal and external.
In the event whilst elections to the Frankfurt Assembly went ahead in those parts of Bohemia mainly peopled by Germans participation was not forthcoming in predominantly Czech areas.
The Frankfurt Parliament further maintained that any legislation passed by princely or ecclesiatical state governments would only be valid if consistent with the new constitution which would be based 'on the will and election of the German people, to found the unity and political liberty of Germany'.
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