Maximilian, baron von Gagern

Maximilian, baron von Gagern (born March 25, 1810, Weilburg, Germany—died October 17, 1889, Vienna) was a liberal Dutch and German diplomat and politician, who played a prominent part in the German Revolution of 1848, attempting to institute the Kleindeutsch (“small German”) solution to German unification, which aimed at excluding Austria’s non-German territories. Gagern, like his two prominent brothers, a nationalist and member of the Pan-German student Burschenschaft, was elected to the 1848 Frankfurt national assembly,...