Germain Metternich
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Germain Franz Metternich was the son of Mathias Metternich, one of the leading Mainz Jacobins. Metternich pursued a military career initially, but became involved with the German democratic movement i
Germain Metternich in a contemporary portrait with "Heckerhut“ and shotgun.
Lieutenant Colonel Germain Metternich, 1861-1862
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
Germain Metternich
…period. The first uprisings of the German Revolution reached Mainz in spring 1848. A vigilance committee was formed very quickly under the command of Franz Heinrich Zitz, a local lawyer. Metternich was elected as his adjutant. At the same time, Metternich was also in charge of a paramilitary, partially armed unit of…
A sketch of Zits from Die Gartenlaube from 1898
Parliamentarian Zitz caricatured as a Jumping Jack