German state from March-July 1793; client state of Revolutionary France
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Republic of Mainz / Rhenish-German Free State
Mainzer Republik(German)
Rheinisch-Deutscher Freistaat(German)
République de Mayence(French)
March – July 1793
Status
Client state of France
Capital
Mainz
Government
Revolutionary republic
Historical era
French Revolutionary Wars
• Occupied by Custine
21 October 1792
• Independence proclaimed
18 March 1793
• Delegates sent to Paris
23 March 1793
• National Convention approved accession to French Republic
30 March 1793
• Reconquered by Austro-Prussian forces
22 July 1793
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Electorate of Mainz
Electorate of Mainz
Today part of
Germany
Liberty pole, erected in Mainz in January 1793
The Republic of Mainz was the first democratic state in the current German territory[1] and was centered in Mainz. A product of the French Revolutionary Wars, it lasted from March to July 1793.
^The short-lived republic is often ignored in identifying the "first German democracy", in favour of the Weimar Republic; e.g. "the failure of the first German democracy after the First World War (the Weimar Republic)..." (Peter J. Burnell, Democracy Assistance: international co-operation for democratization 2000:131), or Ch. 3. 'The First Attempt at Democracy, 1918–1933', in Michael Balfour, West Germany: a contemporary history, 1982:60
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