Grand Duchy of Baden
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The Grand Duchy of Baden was a German polity on the east bank of the Rhine. It originally existed as a sovereign state from 1806 to 1871 and later as part of the German Empire until 1918.
Monument to the Constitution of Baden (and the Grand Duke for granting it), in Rondellplatz, Karlsruhe, Germany
Hecker uprising
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The Hecker uprising was an attempt in April 1848 by Baden revolutionary leaders Friedrich Hecker, Gustav von Struve, and several other radical democrats to overthrow the Baden monarchy and establish a
Death of General Friedrich von Gagern in the Battle at Kandern, which ended the Hecker Uprising. The print shows the battle from the perspective of the Revolutionaries.
Franz Sigel, the leader of the Konstanz militia (pictured around 1861 as a Union officer in the US Civil War, following his emigration from Germany)
It was from this balcony on the Konstanz City Hall that Hecker supposedly declared the republic. The large maiolica reliefs were created by artist Johannes Grützke commemorating the Uprising.
Friedrich Hecker, depicted in an anti-Hecker, contemporary caricature outfitted in the "revolutionary uniform" of a saber, musket, and the "Hecker hat" which became associated with the revolutionaries.