Events
About 50 students attacked the soldiers and policemen of the Frankfurt Police offices Hauptwache and Konstablerwache in order to gain control over the treasury of the German Confederation to start a revolution in all German states. It was not successful because it was betrayed to the police, so that it was easy to overcome the attackers.
The attack was organized by students, most of them members of the Burschenschaft, Gustav Körner and Gustav Bunsen (de:Gustav Bunsen), a teacher, and others.
Read more about this topic: Frankfurter Wachensturm
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