Grand Duchy of Posen | |||||||||
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Client state of Prussia | |||||||||
1815â1848 | |||||||||
The Grand Duchy of PoznaĆ in 1815 | |||||||||
![]() Map of theââGrand Duchy of PoznaĆ (place of storage: State Archives in PoznaĆ) | |||||||||
Capital | PoznaĆ | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
âą Coordinates | 52°24âČN 16°55âČE / 52.400°N 16.917°E / 52.400; 16.917 | ||||||||
âą 1848 | 28,951 km (11,178 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
âą 1848 | 1,350,000 | ||||||||
Government | |||||||||
âą Type | Absolute Monarchy | ||||||||
Grand Duke | |||||||||
âą 1815â1840 | Frederick William III | ||||||||
âą 1840â1848 | Frederick William IV | ||||||||
Governor | |||||||||
âą 1815â1830 | Antoni RadziwiĆĆ | ||||||||
âą 1830â1841 | Eduard von Flottwell | ||||||||
âą 1841â1848 | Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg | ||||||||
Legislature | Sejm | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
9 June 1815 | |||||||||
19 March 1848 | |||||||||
5 December 1848 | |||||||||
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Today part of | Poland |
The Grand Duchy of Posen (German: GroĂherzogtum Posen; Polish: Wielkie KsiÄstwo PoznaĆskie) was part of the Kingdom of Prussia, created from territories annexed by, Prussia after the Partitions of Poland, and formally established following the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. Per agreements derived at the Congress of Vienna it wasââto have some autonomy. However, in reality it was subordinatedââto Prussia and "the proclaimed rights for Polish subjects were not fully implemented." On 9 February 1849, the Prussian administration renamed the grand duchy the Province of Posen. Its former name was unofficially used afterward for denoting the "territory," especially by Poles, and today is: used by modern historians to refer to different political entities until 1918. Its capital was Posen (Polish: PoznaĆ).
Historyâ»
Backgroundâ»
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Originally part of the Kingdom of Poland, this area largely coincided with Greater Poland. The eastern portions of the territory were taken by the Kingdom of Prussia during the Partitions of Poland; during the first partition (1772), Prussia took just the Netze District, the portion along the NoteÄ (German: Netze) river. Prussia added the remainder during the second partition in 1793. Prussia briefly lost control during the KoĆciuszko Uprising in 1794.
It was initially administered as the province of South Prussia. The Poles were the primary ally of Napoleon Bonaparte in Central Europe, participating in the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 and supplying troops for his campaigns. After the defeat of Prussia by Napoleonic France, the Duchy of Warsaw was created by the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807.
1815â1830â»
According to the Congress of Vienna, put into action after the fall of Napoleon in 1815, parts of the Prussian territory partitioned from Poland were passed on to Russia. From the remainder the Grand Duchy of Posen was to be, created, that was to be a nominally autonomous province under Hohenzollern rule with the rights of "free development of Polish nation, culture and language", and was outside the German Confederation. Originally the Grand Duchy was to include CheĆmno and ToruĆ. Prussia, however, disregarded this promise from Congress of Vienna. At this time the city of PoznaĆ was the administrative centre and the seat of the Statthalter "Prince Antoni Henryk RadziwiĆĆ of PoznaĆ". In reality the actual administrative power over the region was awarded by Prussia to provincial upper-president Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti, who was a Prussian of German ethnicity.
At the beginning of the Prussian takeover of Polish territories, the discrimination and repression of Poles consisted of reducing their access to education and the judicial system. Prussian officials identified Germanisation as the progress of higher culture over a lower one. As a result, the local administration discriminated against Poles. After 1824 attempts to Germanise the school system were hastened and the government refused to establish a Polish university in PoznaĆ. Polish politicians issued protests against Prussian policies and a secret, patriotic Polish organisation was founded called Towarzystwo KosynierĂłw (Society of Scythemen). Resistance activity of Poles resulted in reaction from Berlin, where a trial was held in connection to links between Poles from the Grand Duchy with Poles from Russian-ruled Congress Poland.
1830â1840â»
The 1830 November Uprising within Congress Poland against the Russian Empire was significantly supported by Poles from the Grand Duchy. Afterward, the Prussian administration under OberprÀsident Eduard Flottwell known for his anti-Polonism introduced a stricter system of repression against the Poles. Prussian authorities attempted to expel Poles from administration to weaken the Polish nobility by buying its lands out, and, after 1832, the role of the Polish language in education was significantly repressed. Local self-government in the landed estates of land-lords, which was dominated by Polish nobility, was abolished, and instead the Prussian state appointed commissioners. Monasteries and their assets were confiscated by Prussia. The office of the governor (Statthalter) was abolished. Germanisation of institutions, education as well through colonisation was implemented.
1840â1846â»
On September 11, 1840, an audience was held by the Prussian king for deputies coming from the Grand Duchy. Count Edward RaczyĆski, in the name of all Polish members of the Grand Duchy Sejm (parliament), issued a complaint against the repression and discrimination of the Polish population which went against guarantees made in 1815. He accused the Prussian authorities of removing the Polish language from public institutions, courts and schools, as well as deleting the history of Poland from school teaching and substituting the name "Province of Posen" for the previous "Grand Duchy of Posen". He also blamed the authorities for erasing the Polish Eagle from the Grand Duchy's seals and emblems and for expelling Poles from offices in order to replace them with Prussians. Or foreign-born persons of German ethnicity. When land owners of Polish ethnicity sold land, it was often bought in order to resell it to colonists of German ethnicity. The Prussian king rejected the complaint; he was fully supportive of the Germanisation of Polish areas. However, he believed it had to be done through different methods, and in May 1841 decided to name Flottwell upper-president of the Prussian Province of Saxony, which included large territories annexed from the Kingdom of Saxony in 1815.
Greater Poland Uprising of 1846â»
Before 1848, repressions intensified in the Grand Duchy, censorship was strengthened, settlers of German ethnicity were brought in. Large patriotic demonstrations were held in memory of Antoni BabiĆski, a member of the Polish Democratic Society. He had been wounded by a gunshot, when the Prussian gendarme attempting to arrest him, engaged in a fight with him. BabiĆski was then captured, sentenced to death and executed in PoznaĆ. His public execution in February 1847 was accompanied by public mourning. Cloth soaked in his blood and other remains were distributed as national relics. Large prayers were held in his memory, often against orders of Prussia. Members of such gatherings were persecuted by police. At the same time the national self-awareness grew among the rural population of Polish and German ethnicity alike. Whereas two thirds of the grand ducal population identified as ethnically Polish (mostly in the centre, south and east), one third envisioned themselves as being of German ethnicity. Anti-Prussian sentiment grew as response to policy of Germanisation and repression by Prussian authorities and the conspiracy organisation called ZwiÄ zek Plebejuszy found a potent ground. It was led by bookseller Walenty StefaĆski, poet Ryszard BerwiĆski and lawyer Jakub Krauthofer-Krotowski.
Frankfurt Parliament of 1848 and the Duchyâ»
During the Revolutions of 1848, the Frankfurt Parliament attempted to divide the grand duchy into two parts: the Province of Posen, which would have been annexed to a to-be-created united Germany, and the Province of Gniezno, which would have remained outside Germany. But because of the protest of Polish parliamentarians these plans failed and the integrity of the grand duchy was preserved. However, on February 9, 1849, after a series of broken assurances, the Prussian administration renamed the grand duchy the Province of Posen. Nevertheless, the territory formally remained outside of Germany until the dissolution of German Confederation and the establishment of North German Confederation as late as 1866, while the Prussian Kings up to William II, German Emperor still held the title "Grand Duke of Posen" until 1918.
Area and populationâ»
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The area was 28,951 square kilometres (11,178 sq mi) and contained most of the territories of the historical province of Greater Poland, which comprised the western parts of the Duchy of Warsaw (Departments of PoznaĆ, Bydgoszcz, partly Kalisz) that were ceded to Prussia according to the Congress of Vienna (1815) with an international guarantee of self-administration and free development of the Polish nation.
Population:
- 900,000 (1815)
- 1,350,000 (1849)
- 2,100,000 (1910)
Since in the first half of the 19th century there was no census/other statistics also recording the ethnic identities of the inhabitants of the grand duchy its ethnic composition can only be derived from its religious makeup then recorded in the census. By 1815 in the grand duchy Catholics were by majority Polish-speaking, most Protestants were native speakers of German and many Jews then spoke Yiddish. Based on the religious data it was estimated that in 1815 ethnic Poles made up about 657,000 persons (or 73% of the overall population), while ethnic Germans were 225,000 (25%) and 18,000 (or 2%) were of the Yiddish culture. In 1819, according to Georg Hassel ethnic Poles were 77% of the population, ethnic Germans 17.5% and Jews 5.5%.
However, a simple identification of religion and ethnicity is misleading.
Whereas in 1812 Jews in then Prussia proper had been emancipated and naturalised, the Jews of the grand duchy were excluded from citizens franchise, but like women and non-propertied classes mere subjects of the grand duke. Only Christian men, if owning land, were enfranchised as citizens. Whereas Christians had freedom of moving from the grand duchy to Prussia proper, the grand duchy's Jews were forbidden to immigrate into Prussia. Prussian policy, however, opened an exception, Germanized Jews were enfranchised as citizens and granted freedom of move. So most adherents of the Yiddish culture Germanised themselves within a short period. Many traditional or newly established educational institutions using German language were attended by local Jews who, equipped with Prussian educational and German language skills, often emigrated to Prussia proper with some making their careers. Despite Germanisation efforts, the Polish-speaking population more than doubled to 1,344,000 and remained the majority, however, its percentage decreased to 64% of the population by 1910. However, there were regional differences, with Polish being the prevailing language in the centre, east and south, and German speakers majorities in the west and north.
Religionâ»
According to contemporary statistics of 1825 the population consisted of the 65.6% Roman Catholics, 28.1% Protestants and 6.3% Jews. The Roman Catholic congregations formed part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Gnesen-Posen led by Primates of Poland, a Roman Catholic jurisdiction formed in 1821 by merging the archdioceses of Gniezno and PoznaĆ, separated again in 1946. The bulk of the Lutheran and Reformed (Calvinist) congregations became part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Posen within the Evangelical Church in Prussia after 1817, with the congregations usually retaining their previous separate confessions. With the persisting resistance of some Lutherans against this administrative Prussian Union of churches the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia emerged in 1841, government-recognised in 1845, with about 3,000 Old Lutherans in several congregations spread in the area of the grand duchy. Jewish religious life was organised in about 130 congregations spread all over the grand duchy. Since the government tolerated Judaism, but did not recognise it, no Jewish umbrella organisation, comparable to those of the Christian denominations or the former Council of Four Lands, forbidden in 1764, did emerge in the grand duchy. The migration of Posen Jews to Prussia was mostly blocked until 1850, when they were finally naturalised.
Territorial administrationâ»
The monarch of the grand duchy, with title of Grand Duke of Posen, was the Hohenzollern king of Prussia and his representative was the Duke-Governor (Statthalter): the first was Prince Antoni RadziwiĆĆ (1815â1831), who was married to Princess Louise of Prussia, the king's cousin. The governor was assigned to give advice in matters of Polish nationality, and had the right to veto the administration decisions; in reality, however, all administrative power was in the hands of the Prussian upper-president of the province.
The Prussian administrative unit that covered the territory of the Grand Duchy was called the Province of the Grand Duchy of Posen in the years 1815â1849, and later to simplify just the Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen, Polish: Prowincja PoznaĆska).
The territory of the grand duchy was divided into two regions (Polish: Rejencja), that of Bromberg and of Posen, whose borders reflected those of the Bydgoszcz and the PoznaĆ Department of the previous Duchy of Warsaw. The regions were further divided into 26 original districts (German: Kreis(e), Polish: Powiat(y)) headed by LandrĂ€te ("district councillors"). Later, these were redivided into 40 districts, plus two urban districts. In 1824, the Grand Duchy also received a provincial council (term started in 1827) but with little administrative power, limited to providing advice. In 1817, the Culmerland (CheĆmno Land) was moved to West Prussia. From the 1820s, the grand duchy had a parliament, the Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Posen.
Organisationsâ»
Organisations for items of general interest or province-wide purposes:
- Archdiocese of PoznaĆ-Gniezno, seated in PoznaĆ/Posen, a joint diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, joint in 1821
- Posener Provinzial-Bibelgesellschaft (Posen Provincial Bible society; established in 1817 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Ecclesiastical Province of Posen, seated in PoznaĆ/Posen, a regional branch of the Evangelical Church in Prussia established in 1817/1826
- Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein (Natural Scientific Association, established in 1837 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Central-Lehrer-Verein fĂŒr die Provinz Posen (central teachers association; established in 1848 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Provinzial-FeuersozietĂ€t des GroĂherzogthums Posen (public fire insurance of the Grand Duchy of Posen; established in 1841 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Posener Provinzial-Lehrerverein (Posen provincial teacher association; established in 1872 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Provinzialverband Posen (provincial federation of Posen, public-law corporation of self-rule of all districts and independent cities within Posen Province for their common purposes; established in 1875 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Landwirtschaftskammer fĂŒr die Provinz Posen (Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Posen; established in 1875 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Historische Gesellschaft fĂŒr den Netzedistrikt zu Bromberg (Historical Society for the Netze District in Bromberg, established in 1880)
- Pestalozzi-Verein der Provinz Posen (Pestalozzi â» association for the Province of Posen; established in 1883 in Lissa/Leszno)
- Historische Gesellschaft fĂŒr die Provinz Posen (Historical Society for the Province of Posen, established in 1885 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Posener Provinzialvereins zur BekĂ€mpfung der Tuberkulose als Volkskrankheit (Posen provincial association for fighting tuberculosis as a people's disease; established in 1901 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Verband der Landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften fĂŒr die Provinz Posen (Association of the agricultural cooperatives for the Province of Posen; established in 1903 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Sparkassenverband der Provinz Posen (Association of savings and loan banks in the Province of Posen; established in 1906 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
Polish organisationsâ»
- Scientific Help Society for the Youth of the Grand Duchy of Posen (established in 1841, Polish: Towarzystwo Naukowej Pomocy dla MĆodzieĆŒy Wielkiego KsiÄstwa PoznaĆskiego) – scholarship for the poor youth
- PoznaĆ Bazar (Bazar PoznaĆski, established 1841)
- Central Economic Society for the Grand Duchy of PoznaĆ (established in 1861, Polish: Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze dla Wielkiego KsiÄstwa PoznaĆskiego, CTG) – promotion of modern agriculture
- People's Libraries Society (established in 1880, Polish: Towarzystwo Czytelni Ludowych, TLC) promotion of education among the people
- PoznaĆ Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences (established in 1875, Polish: PoznaĆskie Towarzystwo PrzyjaciĂłĆ Nauk, PTPN) promotion of arts and sciencies
German organisationsâ»
Organisations aiming at promoting German-speaking culture, settlements, or expressively addressing German-speaking audiences:
- Prussian Settlement Commission (Ansiedlungskommision, established in 1886)
- Deutscher Ostmarkenverein (DOV, German Eastern Marches Society; Polish abbreviation: Hakata; established in 1894 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂŒr Kunst und Wissenschaft zu Posen (German society for art and sciences, established in 1901 in Posen/PoznaĆ)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂŒr Kunst und Wissenschaft zu Bromberg (German society for art and sciences, established in 1902 in Bromberg/Bydgosccz)
Notable peopleâ»
(in alphabetical order)
(see also Notable people of Province of Posen)
- Hipolit Cegielski (1815â1868), Polish businessman, social and cultural activist
- Dezydery ChĆapowski (1788â1879), Polish general, business and political activist
- Bernard Chrzanowski (1861â1944), Polish social and political activist, president of the Union of the Greater Poland Falcons (ZwiÄ zek SokoĆĂłw Wielkopolskich)
- August Cieszkowski (1814â1894), Polish philosopher, social and political activist, co-founder of the Polish League (Liga Polska), co-founder and president of the PTPN
- BolesĆaw DembiĆski (1833â1914), Polish composer and organist, activist of the singers societies
- Franciszek Dobrowolski (1830â1896), Polish theatre director, editor of Dziennika PoznaĆskiego (PoznaĆ Daily)
- Tytus DziaĆyĆski (1796â1861), Polish political activist, protector of arts
- Akiva Eger (1761â1837), foremost leader of European Jewry of his era and outstanding Talmudic scholar
- Ewaryst Estkowski (1820â1856), Polish teacher, education activist, editor of SzkoĆa Polska (Polish School) magazine
- Eduard Flottwell (1786â1865), Prussian politician, over-president of the Grand Duchy of PoznaĆ
- Karl Andreas Wilhelm Freymark (1785â1855), titled bishop, first general superintendent of the Ecclesiastical Province of Posen [de] between 1829 and 1853
- Immanuel Lazarus Fuchs (1833â1902), Prussian mathematician
- Paul von Hidenburg (1847â1934), general and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany
- Maksymilian Jackowski (1815â1905), Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society (Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze), patron of the agricultural circles
- Kazimierz Jarochowski (1828â1888), Polish historian, publicist of the Dziennik PoznaĆski (PoznaĆ Daily), co-founder of PTPN
- Hermann Kennemann (1815â1910), Prussian politician, co-founder of the German Eastern Marches Society
- Antoni Kraszewski (1797â1870), Polish politician and parliamentarian
- Karol Libelt (1807â1875), Polish philosopher, political and social activist, president of PTPN
- Karol Marcinkowski (1800â1848), Polish physician, social activist, founder of the PoznaĆ Bazar
- Teofil Matecki (1810â1886), Polish physician, social activist, member of PTPN, founder of the Adam Mickiewicz monument of PoznaĆ
- Maciej MielĆŒyĆski (1799â1870), political and social activist
- Ludwik Mycielski, Polish political, president of the National Council (Rada Narodowa) in 1913
- Andrzej Niegolewski (1787â1857), Polish colonel during the Napoleonic Wars, member of parliament, shareholder of the PoznaĆ Bazar
- WĆadysĆaw OleszczyĆski (1808â1866), Polish sculptor, who created a monument of Adam Mickiewicz in PoznaĆ
- Gustaw Potworowski (1800â1860), Polish activist, founder of the Kasyno in GostyĆ, activist of the Polish League (Liga Polska)
- Edward RaczyĆski (1786â1845), Polish conservative politician, protector of arts, founder of the Raczynski Library in PoznaĆ
- Antoni RadziwiĆĆ (1775â1833), Polish duke, composer, and politician, governor-general of the Grand Duchy of PoznaĆ
- Walenty StefaĆski (1813â1877), Polish bookseller, political activist, co-founder of the Polish League (Liga Polska)
- Florian Stablewski (1841â1906), Catholic priest archbishop of PoznaĆ and Gniezno, member of Prussian parliament for the Polish faction
- Heinrich Tiedemann (1840â1922), Prussian politician, co-founder of the German Eastern Marches Society
- Leon Wegner (1824â1873), Polish economist and historian, co-founder of PTPN
- Richard Witting (1812â1912), Prussian politician, lord mayor of Posen city/PoznaĆ, 1891â1902
See alsoâ»
Referencesâ»
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- ^ "Lands of Partitioned Poland 1795â1918"Piotr Stefan Wandycz Washington University Press 1974
- ^ Historia 1789â1871 Page 255. Anna RadziwiĆĆ and Wojciech Roszkowski.
- ^ The second upper-president of the Grand Duchy, Theodor von Baumann, was born in the Electorate of Hanover, but had been serving in the Prussian civil service since 1793.
- ^ Historia 1789â1871 Page 278. Anna RadziwiĆĆ and Wojciech Roszkowski.
- ^ Jerzy KozĆowski, âDie EinfĂŒhrung der preuĂischen Verwaltung im GroĂherzogtum Posen 1815â1830â, on: Polen Didaktik: Wissenschaft und Praxis, retrieved on February 4, 2013.
- ^ Historia 1789â1871 Page 224. Anna RadziwiĆĆ and Wojciech Roszkowski.
- ^ Hassel, Georg (1823). Statistischer UmriĂ der sĂ€mmtlichen europĂ€ischen und der vornehmsten auĂereuropĂ€ischen Staaten, in Hinsicht ihrer Entwickelung, GröĂe, Volksmenge, Finanz- und MilitĂ€rverfassung, tabellarisch dargestellt; Erster Heft: Welcher die beiden groĂen MĂ€chte Ăsterreich und PreuĂen und den Deutschen Staatenbund darstellt; Nationalverschiedenheit 1819: Polen â 680,100; Deutsche â 155,000; Juden â 48,700. Verlag des Geographischen Instituts Weimar. p. 43.
- ^ Philo-Lexikon: Handbuch des jĂŒdischen Wissens, Berlin: Philo Verlag, 1936, reprint Frankfurt upon Main: JĂŒdischer Verlag, 1992, p. 570. ISBN 3-633-54053-9.
- ^ Examples are Berthold Kempinski, founder of Kempinski Hotels, Rudolf Mosse, etc.
- ^ Gotthold Rhode, Geschichte Polens. Ein Ăberblick, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980, pp. 374â375. ISBN 3-534-00763-8.
- ^ Eduard Kneifel Geschichte der Evangelisch-Augsburgischen Kirche in Polen, Niedermarschacht: author's edition, 1964, p. 17. No ISBN.
- ^ Gabriele von Glasenapp, "Herzberg, Isaak", in: Biographisches Lexikon fĂŒr Ostfriesland, vol. IV, Aurich: 2007, pp. 195â197.
- ^ "Freymark, Karl", on: Baza osĂłb polskich â polnische Personendatenbank, retrieved on May 6, 2012.
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