Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi

An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science

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Volume LVII 1-2023

Ernst Elsenhans (1815-1849): Lost Ideas about Social-Liberal State Building and an International State System in the Revolution of 1848-1849

Bernd Braun,
pp. 217-230
10.26331/1207,
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ABSTRACT

The essay deals with the revolutionary Ernst Elsenhans, who was shot in 1849 at the age of just 33. He was a participant in the Baden revolution until the capitulation of the Rastatt fortress. His political ideas were responsible for the death sentence imposed on him by the Prussian victors. As a moderate early socialist and supporter of a just international state system, he wrote articles as a journalist and developed ideas that are timelessly topical.