The Prussian National Assembly ( Preußische Nationalversammlung ) came into being after the revolution of 1848 and was tasked with drawing up a constitution for the Kingdom of Prussia . It first met in the building of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (later the Maxim Gorki Theater ). On 5 November 1848 the Government ordered the expulsion of the Assembly to Brandenburg an der Havel and on 5 December 1848 it was dissolved by royal decree. King Frederick William IV then unilaterally imposed the 1848 Constitution of Prussia .
7-508: The main goal of King Frederick William IV and the liberal March Ministry under Ludolf Camphausen in calling elections to the National Assembly was to steer the often spontaneous and unpredictable revolutionary movement into controllable channels by legalizing it. The reconvened United Diet decided on an "agreement [of the parliament with the king] of the Prussian constitution" as the goal of
14-694: The Berlin deputies were considered closer to the people. This German history article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ludolf Camphausen Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen (10 January 1803 in Geilenkirchen – 3 December 1890 in Cologne ) was a Prime Minister of Prussia . During the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany , Ludolf Camphausen stepped suddenly from his banker's desk at Cologne to
21-520: The Radical and Progressist majority of the Assembly on the other side. Both Ludolf and Otto Camphausen were moderate Liberals – too Liberal to suit the views of the king and of the reactionary feudalist clique around him, and too Conservative for the impatience of the men of progress. Less than three months sufficed to convince Ludolf Camphausen of this fact, and already on 20 June he tendered his resignation to
28-452: The broadest sense (including teaching, administration and the judiciary) made up the largest number of members. Overall, the National Assembly in Berlin was much more dominated by the lower middle class and less by the educated bourgeoisie than the assembly in Frankfurt. The fact that the better-known personalities in the constituencies tended to be sent to Frankfurt played a role. By contrast,
35-444: The coming National Assembly. This thus expressly forbade an independent draft by Parliament. The electoral law provided for universal, equal, and indirect suffrage. All men over the age of 24 who had lived in their place of residence for more than six months and did not receive poor relief had the right to vote. No larger German state had a similarly broad electoral franchise as Prussia. The primary elections took place on 1 May 1848 (at
42-450: The presidential chair of the Ministry of State at Berlin, being called by King Frederick William IV of Prussia to succeed Count Arnim-Boitzenburg as prime minister, on 29 March. Ludolf availed himself largely of his younger brother's ( Otto ) proven business talents, and the two might have succeeded had they not to encounter the insincerity of the monarch on the one side, and the distrust of
49-754: The same time as those for the Frankfurt National Assembly ). The electors thus determined decided the composition of the parliament on 8 and 10 May 1848. The composition of the parliament differed significantly from that of the Frankfurt National Assembly. Professors as well as freelance lawyers were poorly represented in Berlin; journalists, full-time publicists or writers were completely absent. Unlike in Frankfurt, Berlin's deputies included artisans, farmers (46) and large landowners (27). Judges were also more strongly represented than in Frankfurt. Similar to Frankfurt, however, public servants in
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