Their proposal was inspired mainly by the murder of the dramatist August Kotzebue by Karl Sand, a member of a radical student organization.
Their proposal was inspired mainly by the murder of the dramatist August Kotzebue by Karl Sand, a member of a radical student organization. Its measures included uniform censorship of all periodicals by the Bund, disbanding the recently formed nationalist student clubs, and establishment of an inquisition-like central investigatory commission at Mainz to discover nationalist conspiracies. Proposed by Metternich, they were agreed upon by a meeting of ministers of major German states in the Bohemian spa town for which they are named. FTP, what were these repressive 1819 decrees?
Their proposal was inspired mainly by the murder of the dramatist August Kotzebue by Karl Sand, a member of a radical student organization.
Carlsbad Decrees