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Documents - The Revolutionary Republic of Mainz, 1792/93, and the French Occupation of the Rhineland
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1.   Georg Wedekind, "Appeal to Fellow Citizens," delivered to the Society of the Friends of the People in Mainz (October 27, 1792)
Georg Wedekind (1761-1831) was a well-educated physician who entered the service of the Archbishop of Mainz, one of the three ecclesiastical (Catholic) Electors of the Holy Roman Empire and the ruler....
2.   Georg Forster, "On the Relationship of the People of Mainz to the Franks," delivered to the Society of the Friends of the People in Mainz (November 15, 1792)
Noteworthy here is the cosmopolitanism of Forster’s revolutionary rhetoric – he proclaims democratic freedom a universal right and argues against German nationalist prejudice against the French (in....
3.   Friedrich Cotta, "On the Good Life the People of the Rhine and the Mosel Can Now Have" (November 30, 1792)
Here, Friedrich Cotta appeals to the material self-interest of the “common people” among the German population of the Mainz Republic, stressing the advantages of the democratic regime, which, among....
4.   Konrad Engelbert Oelsner, "What May Be Hoped for from Freedom" (1794)
Konrad Engelbert Oelsner, a well-educated merchant’s son from Prussian Silesia, gravitated to Paris in 1790 and became an important reporter for the liberal German press on the French Revolution,....
5.   "Declaration of Sovereignty of the [German] People Between the [Rivers] Meuse, Rhine, and Mosel" (November 13, 1797)
The numbers of German partisans of the French Revolution – German Jacobins – are difficult to establish, but in the early- and mid-1790s they gained strength, especially in west and south Germany.....
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