August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue, a German…
March 1819 CE
One of the books of August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue had been burned during the Wartburg festival, a convention of about five hundred Protestant German students, held on October 18, 1817 at the Wartburg castle near Eisenach in Thuringia.
The former refuge of reformer Martin Luther is considered a national symbol and the assembly a protest against reactionary politics and Kleinstaaterei (a word used, often pejoratively, to denote the territorial fragmentation in Germany and neighboring regions during the Holy Roman Empire (especially after the end of the Thirty Years' War) and during the German Confederation in the first half of the nineteenth century.
This murder gives Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which will dissolve the Burschenschaften, crack down on the liberal press, and seriously restrict academic freedom in the states of the German Confederation.
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