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The Last volunteer Insurgents (1849)
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Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 8, p. 242;
First published: in Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 195, January 14, 1849.
First published: in Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 195, January 14, 1849.
Collection(s): Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Keywords : Switzerland, Germany
Berne, January 8. The second instance of the Court of Appeal here has sentenced Herr J. Ph. Becker and Herr H. Hattemer in Biel, the first to one year, the second to six monthsâ exile from the canton, for founding the military association âHilf Dirâ.[1] The other accused were acquitted. This brings to an end the famous story of the much-talked-of third volunteer insurgentsâ campaign, and the Central Authority can now once more devote its entire valuable time to the question of the German monarch and the German fleet. God bless their sour efforts for the well-being of the âwhole fatherlandâ.
- â The reference is to the attempt by Gustav Struve and other political refugees to organise an uprising in Baden in September 1848. The âHilf Dirâ military association was founded in the autumn of 1848 by Johann Philipp Becker, a leader of the democratic and working-class movement. With its Central Committee in Biel (canton of Berne), it united societies consisting mainly of artisans formed in various towns in Switzerland. The âHilf Dirâ military association pursued a democratic policy and aimed at uniting all German volunteer units in Switzerland for the purpose of establishing a republic in Germany. It was organised as a secret conspiratorial society, on the lines of those in France and Italy. The Swiss authorities, under pressure from German counter-revolutionary circles and the Imperial Government in particular, instituted proceedings against Becker and other initiators of the military association. Becker was sentenced to expulsion from the Berne canton for twelve months.