175 years ago, the National Assembly met in Frankfurt's St. Paul's Church.
At the anniversary ceremony, Federal President Steinmeier paid tribute to the legacy of the revolution. Celebrating the anniversary is a "sign against the despisers of our parliamentary democracy", he said. Steinmeier recalled that the revolutionary awakening and parliamentarism of 1848 was not a unique German path, but that similar movements existed in many European countries. "If freedom and self-determination are threatened or attacked anywhere, all free people and peoples are threatened," he added.