Franz Heinrich Zitz
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Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz was a Mainz attorney, a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, a Forty-eighter, and one of the primary rebel leaders of the Palatine uprising during the German revolutions
A sketch of Zits from Die Gartenlaube from 1898
Parliamentarian Zitz caricatured as a Jumping Jack
The German revolutions of 1848–1849, the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution, were initially part of the Revolutions of 1848 that broke out in many European countries. They wer
Franz Heinrich Zitz
…Mainz attorney, a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, a Forty-eighter, and one of the primary rebel leaders of the Palatine uprising during the German revolutions of 1848–1849. On June 3, 1837, he married the writer Katharina Theresa Halein, not completely of his own free will, but under threat of suicide. They lived together…
Origin of the Flag of Germany: Cheering revolutionaries in Berlin, Berlin Palace in the background, on 19 March 1848
The painting Germania, possibly by Philipp Veit, hung inside the Frankfurt parliament, the first national parliament in German history
Vienna Uprising, October 1848
The Battle of Kirchheimbolanden, 14 June 1849