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Maximilian, baron von Gagern

German diplomat and politician
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Born:
March 25, 1810, Weilburg, Germany
Died:
October 17, 1889, Vienna (aged 79)
Title / Office:
Frankfurt National Assembly (1848-1849)

Maximilian, baron von Gagern (born March 25, 1810, Weilburg, Germany—died October 17, 1889, Vienna) was a liberal Dutch and German diplomat and politician, who played a prominent part in the German Revolution of 1848, attempting to institute the Kleindeutsch (“small German”) solution to German unification, which aimed at excluding Austria’s non-German territories. Gagern, like his two prominent brothers, a nationalist and member of the Pan-German student Burschenschaft, was elected to the 1848 Frankfurt national assembly, where he served as vice president of the constitutional committee and undersecretary of state in the German Reich ministry of foreign affairs. In the spring ...(100 of 145 words)

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