Republic of Mainz

The republic of Mainz is a founded République after its separation of the Germanic Roman Holy roman Empire in 1793.

Certain intellectuals of Mainz adhered with enthusiasm to the French revolutionary ideas, inter alia Cotta, Anton-Joseph Dorsch, Boehmer, Adam Lux, Andreas-Joseph Hoffmann, Felix-Anton Blau and Georg Forster.

The France occupying Mainz militarily, they tried to found a republic of Mainz. A Germanic Convention of the the Rhine, was elected, it was far from representative of the population, which had massively abstained from at the time of the vote, the Rhenish countries, very catholic and very believers, believed that the French revolution was a Protestant subversion. The military defeats of revolutionary France, the loss of the town of Frankfurt at the beginning of December 1792 added to the threat of a head office of Mainz by the Austro-Prussians, were not either without consequence on the freshness of the opinions concerning the Rhenish Revolution.

The Convention chaired by Hoffmann, opened the March 17th 1793. She proclaimed her separation of the Germanic Roman Holy roman Empire, the abolition of the privileges of the clergy like those of the nobility, but could not ensure a sufficient base to create the republic of Mainz. On the motion of Forster, chair Club of the Jacobins mayençais which handled by the French military authorities, Convention required its meeting of France. In the month of July 1793, the seat then the capitulation of Mainz were to destroy this meeting with the French Republic.

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Mainz - Die Geschichte der Stadt - Mainz - History of the city; Editors: Franz Dumont, Ferdinand Scherf, Friedrich Schütz; 1. Aufl. ; Editor Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998

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