Attempted revolution in Frankfurt, Germany
The Frankfurter Wachensturm (German: charge of the Frankfurt guard house) on 3 April 1833 was a failed attempt to start a revolution in Germany.
Events.
About 50 students attacked the soldiers and policemen of the Frankfurt Police offices "Hauptwache" and "Konstablerwache" to try to gain control over the treasury of the German Confederation to start a revolution in all German states. However, because the plot had been betrayed to the police, it was easy to overcome the attackers.
The attack was organized by students, most of them members of the Burschenschaft, Gustav Körner and Gustav Bunsen (), a teacher, and others.
Aftermath.
After the failed attack, at least eight of those involved, Gustav Körner, George Bunsen, Gustav Bunsen, Henry Abend, Theodore Engleman, Georg Neuhoff, Ferdinand Lindheimer, and Adolph Berchelman fled to Belleville, Illinois. Gustav Körner was later Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. Gustav Bunsen died serving Sam Houston in Texas, George Bunsen became superintendent of schools in St. Clair County, Illinois, and Lindheimer eventually settled in New Braunfels, Texas and started the New Braunfelser Zeitung. He is most known for his discoveries of plant specimens, thus giving him the name “Father of Texas Botany”.
This group of "1830s revolutionaries", thus called in German "the Dreißiger", were predecessors of the "Forty-Eighters", who had to emigrate following the 1848 revolutions.