History and chronology of Heinrich Wilhelm August Freiherr von Gagern in Germany

General

Government
Napoleonic Wars

Events

Battle Waterloo
Birth
Constitution
Death
Envoy
sche Program
Minister President
President
Resignation

Places

Bayreuth
Berlin
Darmstadt
Waterloo

Heinrich Wilhelm August Freiherr von Gagern History of Germany


1799	Birth
20th Aug Bayreuth Birth of Heinrich Wilhelm August Freiherr von Gagern, son of Hans Chris toph Ernst, Baron von Gagern,a liberal statesman from Hesse
1815	Battle of Waterloo
Waterloo Gagern fights at the battle of Waterloo under the Duke of Nassau
1848	Constitution
Dec Berlin The Declaration of the Basic Rights , a model for all German democratic institutions
1848	Gagernsche Program
17th Dec Introduces the Gagernsche Program, Austria is to be excluded from the new federal state, but bound to it by a treaty of Union
1848	Minister President
17th Dec Appointed Minister President of the German Provisional Government
1848	President
19th May Appointed President of the Frankfurt Parliament
1849	Gagernsche Program
20th May The Gagernsche Program is accepted but endless constitutional debate leads to Gagern's resignation
1849	Resignation
20th May Resigns after the King of Prussia refuses his offer to be an elected German Emperor frustrating Gagern's plan for non-revolutionary German unification
1864	Envoy
Appointed Hessian envoy to Vienna
1880	Death
Darmstadt Death of Heinrich Wilhelm August Freiherr von Gagern