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German Medal - 32mm - Die error
FACE READS:
GOTT SEGNE DAS DEUTSCHE VATERLAND / GOD BLESS THE GERMAN FATHERLAND
DEPICTS AN AVENGING ANGEL WITH A SWORD AND A LAUREL WREATH
REVERSE READS:
ZUM GEDÄCHTNIS AN DIE 50 JÄHRIGE JUBELFEIER DER DEUTSCHEN ERHEBUNG / TO REMEMBER THE 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE GERMAN SURVEY
NICKEL COMPOSITION
DIE ERROR VISABLE UNDER "GOTT"



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Schleswig-Holstein survey
The Schleswig-Holstein survey was a political and military conflict between the German national movement in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein and the Kingdom of Denmark, supported by the majority of the states of the German Confederation. It lasted from 1848 to 1851. The Danish name is Treårskigene ("Three Years War"). The provisional Schleswig-Holstein government formed in the duchies during the war was not recognized by most states outside the German Confederation .

The many new political currents of the 19th century also influenced the development in the Danish monarchy, with which the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg were connected by personal union at that time. The desire for democratization was soon overshadowed by efforts to establish national states that were as uniform as possible. The Duchy of Schleswig was populated with a mixture of German , Danish and Frisian .

Nevertheless, the national liberals on both sides, which were soon supported by other political forces, each claimed the entire Duchy of Schleswig. The Danish national liberals referred to the centuries-long feudal connection between Schleswig and the Danish monarchy and the historic Eider Frontier , which had already been agreed between Charlemagne and the Danish Viking king Hemming in 811 , and the German Schleswig-Holsteiners referred to the Treaty of Ripen of 1460 , according to which the duchies " up forever ungeled“(Eternally undivided) should remain, and in addition to the constitutional separation of kingdom and duchy, which has also lasted for centuries. In addition, Duke Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg emphasized his inheritance claims to the duchies.

The constitutional situation was as follows: Unlike Holstein, the Duchy of Schleswig was a Danish fiefdom and thus neither part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation nor part of the German Confederation established at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . In his capacity as Duke of Holstein, the King of Denmark was also represented in the highest organ of this confederation, the Frankfurt Federal Assembly. This was possible for foreign heads of state, provided that they ruled over territories within the federal territory.

In his open letter of July 8, 1846, the Danish King Christian VIII had tried to abolish the order of succession , through which after the expected extinction of the male line in the kingdom the female line, in Holstein the male line of the so-called younger royal line ( Augustenburger line ) had to come to power. In this way he wanted to prevent the collapse of the entire Danish state, but by doing so he had caused great excitement in the duchies. The king died on January 20, 1848; his son Friedrich VII.tried in vain to find a compromise between (Eider) Danish and Schleswig-Holstein interests. The slow escalation came to a climax after the events of February and March.

After the February Revolution in Paris in 1848 , political unrest broke out across Europe, and the March Revolution broke out in many German states . Events also rolled over in the entire Danish state . Since the new King Frederick VII had little interest in running the business of government himself, he allowed the drafting of a future Danish constitution . The initiative for this had already been initiated by his father. The position of the duchies played an important role. The German-minded Schleswig-Holsteiners feared that the opposition Eider-DanishLine would prevail in parliament. Had the latter gained the upper hand, the incorporation of Schleswig into the kingdom would have been the feared consequence. The desired unity of the duchies would have been made impossible; on the other hand, Schleswig's independent position would have been ended. Since the existing personal union with Denmark was in question, the German-minded Schleswig-Holsteiners also wanted the creation of an independent German federal state Schleswig-Holstein that was completely independent of Denmark.

On March 18, 1848, German-minded representatives of the state assemblies of Schleswig and Holstein decided in Rendsburg to send a deputation to the king (Friedrich VII.) With the ultimate demand for a free constitution. This should include the admission of Schleswig into the German Confederation and the formation of a Schleswig-Holstein people's army under the leadership of its own officers. These demands would have practically separated Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark, only the king would have remained a common one.

On March 20th, a large public gathering at the Casino Theater in Copenhagen interpreted the news to mean that a riot had broken out in the duchies. Faced with this threat, the assembly decided to ask the king to appoint a more capable government. The next day, 15,000–20,000 citizens gathered and went to the castle, where the king announced that he had already dismissed the ministers on the recommendation of his secret state minister. Several national liberal oaths were represented in the new cabinet.

On March 23, the rumor spread in Kiel that the king was incapable of acting and "in the hands of the mob ". Both the revolutions in Vienna and Berlin that had taken place a few days earlier and the widely known political indifference of the king, who had only been in power for two months, contributed to this interpretation . A group of Schleswig-Holstein-minded celebrities seized the opportunity and formed a provisional government on March 24thwho should act in the name of their allegedly unfree sovereign, the king. The next morning a proclamation went out, which demanded the unification of Schleswig and Holstein, but did not want to annul the personal union with the Kingdom of Denmark; the task of the provisional government is to defend the two duchies and the king against the alleged assault that had taken place. The non-revolutionary emphasis contributed to the fact that almost all state officials and cities of the duchies recognized the provisional government as legitimate in the near future.

The member states of the German Confederation donated war memorials for the participants in the Schleswig-Holstein survey: 
Kingdom of Bavaria : Campaign memorial 1849 
Duchy of Braunschweig : Commemorative Medal for 1848–1849 (Braunschweig)
Frankfurt am Main : War memorials 1848–1849
Hessen-Homburg : Field service mark for the 1849 campaign (Hessen-Homburg)
Mecklenburg-Schwerin : Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg)
Duchy of Nassau : Medal for the battle near Eckernförde
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg : Commemorative medal for the veterans 1848 and 1849 (Oldenburg)
Kingdom of Prussia : Commemorative coin for combatants 1848–1849
Kingdom of Prussia: Commemorative coin for non-combatants 1848–1849
Reuss older line and Reuss younger line : Memorial cross for Eckernförde
Kingdom of Saxony : Memorial cross for combatants 1849
Kingdom of Saxony : Memorial cross for non-combatants 1849
Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha : Memorial cross for Eckernförde
Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg : Commemorative medal for the 1849 campaign
Schaumburg-Lippe : memorial cross for the 1849 campaign
Waldeck : Campaign Medal (Waldeck) #Feldzugmedaille 1849
Kingdom of Württemberg : War memorial for the campaign in Schleswig-Holstein (1849)
 

 





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