Frankfurter Wachensturm

Contemporary illustration of the Wachensturm

The Frankfurter Wachensturm (German: charge of the Frankfurt guard house) on 3 April 1833 was a failed attempt to start a revolution in Germany.

Events

About 50 students attacked the soldiers and policemen of the Frankfurt Police offices Hauptwache and Konstablerwache in order to gain control over the treasury of the German Confederation to start a revolution in all German states. It was not successful because it was betrayed to the police, so that it was easy to overcome the attackers.

The attack was organized by students, most of them members of the Burschenschaft, Gustav Körner and Gustav Bunsen (de:Gustav Bunsen), a teacher, and others.

Aftermath

After the failed attack, at least 7 of those involved, Gustav Körner, George Bunsen, Gustav Bunsen, Henry Abend, Theodore Engleman, and Adolph Berchelman fled to Belleville, Illinois. Gustav Koerner was later Lt. Governor of Illinois. Gustav Bunsen died serving Sam Houston in Texas, and George Bunsen became superintendent of schools in St. Clair County, Illinois.

This group of 1830s revolutionaries, thus called in German the Dreißiger, were predecessors of the "Forty-Eighters", who had to emigrate following the 1848 revolutions.

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