Die Integrität des Staatsgebiets im 19. Jahrhundert

Joachim Kummer examines how the territorial integrity in criminal and state law evolved during 19th-century Germany. The work focuses on the constitutional ban against the cession or partition of land by the monarch as well as the criminal acts of territorial treason and territorial high treason. With special regard to the concept of territory, the work analyses and compares the legal discourse on territorial integrity in criminal and state law, the constitutional and criminal legislation of the states of the German Confederation and of the German Reich of 1871 respectively. In this context, the work also investigates the so-called “Polenprozess” of 1847, a trial during which questions of territorial high treason and the relationship between territory and constitution were subject of a controversial debate.