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East Prussia and the Revolution of 1848

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William J. Orr Jr
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Because German historiography long derided 1848 as “das tolle Jahr,” studies of the impact of this crucial period on Prussia's eastern provinces have been relatively scanty. Professional historians, as well as the amateurs and antiquarians who wrote local history, preferred to treat revered and glamorous epochs like the Reformation, the deeds of the most famous Hohenzollern kings, the Wars of Liberation, or the like rather than events which in retrospect were deplored as one of the more shameful episodes of national history. This neglect, to be sure, has been rectified somewhat since the Second World War after the democratization of West Germany and the socialization of the East lent new interest and respectability to the Revolution of 1848. Then too, the loss of much of the old Prussian heartland to Poland has resulted in a number of often valuable studies of this region by Polish scholars who, however, have for understandable reasons tended to focus rather heavily on nationality problems.

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Central European History , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 1980 , pp. 303 - 331
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1980

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1. The literature on the Revolution of 1848 in the heartland of Prussia, the central and eastern provinces, is still incomplete Turbulent Silesia has been the subject of extensive research, too voluminous to cite in toto here. An excellent summary, however, is provided by Sydor, Jerzy, “Wiosna Ludów [The Revolution of 1848],” in Michalkie-wicz, Stanislaw, ed., Historia Sląska [The History of Silesia], vol. 2, pt. 2: 1807–1850 (Wroclaw, Warsaw, and Cracow, 1970), pp. 486–546.Google Scholar On the other hand, to judge from Hans Joachim Schreckenbach's comprehensive Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Mark Brandenburg, 4 vols. (Weimar, 1970–1974)Google Scholar, the Revolution of 1848 in Brandenburg still awaits an investigator. With regard to the Saxon Province Volker Klemm has investigated the region of Lower Lusatia in his two articles: “Das Revolutionsjahr 1848 in den Städten der Nieder-lausitz,” Lětopis 15 (1968) 150–74Google Scholar; “Das Revolutionsjahr 1848 in den Dörfern der Nie-derlausitz,” Lětopis 16 (1969): 48–69.Google Scholar For Pomerania the only recent, accessible study is Wiśniewski, Jerzy, “Wiosna Ludów na Pomorzu zachodnim [The Revolution of 1848 in Farther Pomerania],” in Labuda, Gerard, ed., Szkice z dziejów Pomorza, 3 (Warsaw, 1961). 131–79.Google Scholar For West Prussia see Orr, William J. Jr,. “Westpreussen und die Revolution von 1848,” Beiträge zur Geschichte Westpreussens 6 (1980): 155–208.Google Scholar For the literature on East Prussia see the following note.

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29. On March 15 a group of liberal citizens had urged their city government to petition for a constitution, national representation, and broader civil liberties. But, in a kind of prelude to the reactionary chicanery which became so characteristic of East Prussian politics later that year, drunken workers, evidently incited by well-dressed individuals, threatened disruption. When the municipal authorities met five days later, they proved sufficiently alarmed by the divisive mood in their city to shelve the petition, with the lame justification that the king's promise to summon the United Diet would resolve Prussia's political problems. See Thimm, Rudolf, Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit, 5 vols. (Tilsit, 1888–1892), 3: 11–16.Google Scholar

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36. Elbinger Zeitung, no. 44, Apr. 10, 1848; Chojnacki, Mazury i Warmia, pp. 193–94. In the case of Lyck the assault was provoked by the peasants' belief that the Landrat had misappropriated for himself the duties they had paid during years of bad harvests.

37. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 1, fol. 408–9; Chojnacki, Mazury i Warmia, p. 201; Sahm, Wilhelm, Geschichte der Stadt Friedland (Königsberg, 1913), pp. 156–58.Google Scholar

38. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 2, fol. 257–58; Chojnacki, Mazury i Warmia, pp. 199–200.

39. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 2, fol. 45–46,137–40, 279, 309; Rothfels, Theodor von Schön, pp. 266–67; Mittheilungen aus dem Leben des Feldmarschalls Grafen Friedrich zu Dohna (Berlin, 1873), p. 134Google Scholar; Parisius, Ludolf, Leopold Freiherr von Hoverbeck, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1897–98), 1: 90Google Scholar; Rosenberg, Bernhard-Maria, Die ostpreussischen Abgeordneten in Frankfurt 1848/49 (Cologne and Berlin, 1970), p. 24.Google Scholar

40. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 2, fol. 43; Ostsee-Zeitung, no. 50, May 8, 1848; Herre, Brünneck, pp. 433f. The results of the May elections in East Prussia would then tend to confirm the conclusions of Mattheisen, Donald J., “Voters and Parliaments in the German Revolution of 1848: An Analysis of the Prussian Constituent Assembly,” Central European History 5 (1972): 11–15CrossRefGoogle Scholar, who argues that the rural districts of the monarchy tended to elect more radical deputies than urban ones.

41. See Stein, , Umwandlung der Agrarverfassung Ostpreussens, 3: 309–10.Google Scholar That the Gum- binnen Regierungsbezirk was less prone to violence is evident from Engels, “Regierung Gumbinnen,” pp. 189–90.

42. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 2, fol. 80–81, 94–95, 218–21, 222, 232–35, 249, 306, 331–33, 513–14, 536, 581; vol. 3, fol. 3, 113–14; Vossische Zeitung, no. 108, May 10, 1848.

43. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 2, fol. 137–40, 579–80.

44. Buchholz, Franz, Braunsberg im Wandel der Jahrhunderte (Braunsberg, 1934), p. 213.Google Scholar Similar riots also occurred that same day in nearby Wormditt. See Jasiński, “Wiosny Ludöw na Warmii,” pp. 527–28.

45. Hein, Geschichte der Stadt Bartenstein, p. 152.

46. Elbinger Morgenblatt, no. 3, May 6, 1848; StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 2, fol. 155–58.

47. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. l, fol. 285–86; vol. 2, fol. 67, 122–25, 129, 146, 337–38, 387–89; Mittheilungen aus dem Leben des Grafen Dohna, pp. 134–35; Thimm, , Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit, 3: 38ffGoogle Scholar; Orr, “Königsberg,” p. 286.

48. Orr, “Konigsberg,” pp. 287–89.

49. Here the major sources of primary information remain either newspapers or else official reports. Unfortunately, as regards the latter, only those for the Königsberg Regierungsbezirk are available. For the Gumbinnen district one must rely on more scanty information either from newspapers or local histories. The existing official accounts fall into two groups—Landrat reports from the fall of 1848 in response to inquiries from Berlin regarding size, membership, statutes, activities, and connections of political organizations in the area (Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 5) and comparable reports made in 1850–51 (Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 2) when the Interior Ministry remained anxious about the possible continued existence of subversive organizations in a now mostly quiescent Prussian monarchy.

50. StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 5, fol. sff; Nr. 2, fol. 45ff; Königsberger Zeitung, nos. 165, 200, 250 of July 18, Aug. 28, Oct. 25, 1848; Berliner Zeitungshalle, no. 158, July 10, 1848; Helwig, Geschichte der Stadt Preussisch-Holland, p. 212; Rosenberg, Ostpreussische Abgeordneten, p. 36; Thimm, , Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit, 3: 21ff.Google Scholar

51. StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 1, fol. 14–15,66–67. These figures should be set against the approximately one and a half million inhabitants of East Prussia as a whole.

52. Königsberger Zeitung, 1848, nos. 152, 163, 167, 168, 173, 177, 220.

53. Orr, “Königsberg,” pp. 289–90.

54. StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. l, fol. 52, 56–65; Nr. 3, fol. 50ff.; Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 4, fol. 83ff; Hein, Geschichte der Stadt Bartenstein, pp. 153–55. In one issue the Bartensteiner Anzeiger went so far as to suggest that attitudes of such members of the royal family as the Prince of Prussia would make the Hohenzollerns as impossible for Prussia as the Habsburgs for Austria—daring rhetoric indeed in view of the deference shown the monarchy by even some of the more radical opposition.

55. StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 1, fol. 18–24. See also Sembritzki, Geschichte der Stadt Memel, 2: 153–54.

56. StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 5, fol. 23–26.

57. Helwig, Geschichte der Stadt Preussisch-Holland, p. 212.

58. StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 1, fol. 18.

59. Such are the conclusions provided by detailed statistics kept by the authorities on press circulation: StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 1, passim.

60. Hensel, Sebastian, Carl Witt: Ein Freund und Lehrer der Jugend (Berlin, 1894), pp. 48ff.Google Scholar His paper was evidently sufficiently appealing to prompt Landrat von Lavergne-Peguilhen and other conservatives to challenge it with their own loyalist, Polish-language venture. Both papers expired at the end of 1849 with the general ebb of political involvement. StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 2, fol. 203. See also Sukertowa-Biedrawina, Emilia, “Przyczynek do końcowego okresu Wiosny Ludów na Mazurach [Contribution to the Concluding Phase of the Revolution of 1848 in Masuria],” Komunikaty Mazursko-War-mińskie, 1959, no. 3, pp. 46ff.Google Scholar

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62. Orr, “Westpreussen,” pp. 197–99.

63. Orr, “Königsberg,” pp. 292–94.

64. StAK, Rep. 2, II, Nr. 2884, fol. 78–90; Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 4, fol. 50–51; Thimm, Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit, 3: 53–54.

65. Szameitat, Max, “Memel im Revolutionsjahr 1848,” Memelland Kalendar 1961 (Oldenburg, 1961), p. 29Google Scholar; Sembritzki, Geschichte der Stadt Memel, 2: 153.

66. Helwig, Geschichte der Stadt Preussisch-Holland, p. 213; National-Zeitung, nos. 233, 239, Dec. 9 and 15, 1848.

67. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 4, fol. 22–23, 29–30, 47, 78, 194–99; Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 3, fol. 28, 31; Königsberger Zeitung, nos. 269–73, 276, Nov. 16–21, 24, 1848; Thimm, Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit, 3: 47ff; Orr, “Königsberg,” pp. 294–95.

68. As the archival sources indicate, this area had been considerably agitated during the fall by the belief of the peasants in an imminent redistribution of the land. After the pro rogation of the National Assembly the Democratic Club had been urging a tax boycott, and Gąsiorowski had issued placards in both German and Polish appealing to this end.

69. StAK, Rep. 2, II, Nr. 2884, fol. 56–61, 68, 76, 101, 149; Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 4, fol. 43, 258; Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 3, fol. 42–43, 45, 50–55, 62, 100; Rep. 10, Tit. 36, Nr. 4, fol. 39–40.

70. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 40, Nr. 2, vol. 18, fol. 570, vol. 19, fol. 11–12.

71. StAK, Rep. 2, Tit. 30, Nr. 30, vol. 2, fol. 52–59, 78–79, 147–51, 462ff., 468ff.; vol. 4, fol. 146, 206, 241, 242, 283; National-Zeitung, nos. 160, 250, Sept. 13, Dec. 18, 1848, no. 61, 03 5, 1849; jacoby, Johann, Briefwechsel 1816–1849, ed. Silberner, Edmund (Hanover, 1974), pp. 488–89, 549.Google Scholar

72. Orr, “Königsberg,” p. 296; Thimm, Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit, 3: 66; Helwig, Geschichte der Stadt Preussisch-Holland, p. 213.

73. Graudenzer Anzeiger, no. 41, May 23, 1849; Orr, “Königsberg,” pp. 297–98.

74. StAK, Rep. 2, II, Nr. 2881, fol. 54, 98ff., 102, 103, 104–5, 112; National-Zeitung, no. 178, June 30, 1849; Thimm, Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit, 3: 90; Orr, “Königsberg,” p. 298.

75. The authorities tabulated the results Kreis by Kreis for both Regierungsbezirke. In the Gumbinnen Regierungsbezirk of 111,353 qualified voters only 36,370 or 33% voted. The breakdown by the three classes was as follows: I: 7,348 (3,824 = 52%), II: 16,249 (7,623=47%), III: 87,756 (25,253=29%). For the Königsberg Regierungsbezirk: Total: 163,446 (51,515=31.5%), I: 7,602 (3,693=48.5%), II: 20,004 (7,870=39%), III: 135,840 (39,952=29%). StAK, Rep. 2, II, Nr. 2881, fol. 144ff., 148ff.

76. Orr, “Königsberg,” pp. 299–301.

77. Thimm, Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit, 3: 79ff. A few copies of the Dorfzeitung are still extant. StAK, Rep. 10, Tit. 37, Nr. 10, fol. 3–30.

78. Hensel, Carl Witt, pp. 59–60.

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80. Orr, “Königsberg,” pp. 303–4; Orr, “Westpreussen,” pp. 196–99.

81. The charge was not entirely fair. These workers did, in fact, show considerable class solidarity and perseverance, as 1843 and 1848 strikes of Danzig dock and lumber workers demonstrated. See Orr, “Westpreussen,” pp. 196–97.