Benedikt Waldeck

Benedikt Waldeck
Born
Benedikt Franz Leo Ignatz Waldeck

(1802-07-31)31 July 1802
Münster, Holy Roman Empire
Died12 May 1870(1870-05-12) (aged 67)
Berlin, Prussia, North German Confederation
Burial placeBerlin, St. Hedwig's cemetery
NationalityPrussian
Education
Political partyGerman Progress Party

Benedikt Franz Leo Ignatz Waldeck (31 July 1802 – 12 May 1870) was a left-leaning deputy in the Prussian National Assembly and later in the Second Chamber of the Landtag of Prussia. He is considered one of the leading left-wing liberals in Prussia during the German revolutions of 1848–1849. In May 1849 he was arrested in Berlin for high treason, but was acquitted in December.[1] Waldeck is an important figure in German constitutional history and in the 1860s he became one of Otto von Bismarck's most important domestic political opponents.[2][1]

  1. ^ a b Biermann, Wilhelm (1928). Franz Leo Benedikt Waldeck. Ein Streiter für Freiheit und Recht (in German). Paderborn: Schöningh.
  2. ^ Jansen, Christian (2011). Gründerzeit und Nationsbildung 1849 – 1871 (in German). Paderborn: Brill | Schöningh. p. 239. doi:10.36198/9783838532530. ISBN 9783838532530.