Karl Ludwig Sand Celebrated Crimes

Quote, March 23, 1819, Karl-Ludwig Sand murdered August von Kotzebue, a playwright in the service of the Russian government, because of his criticism of the student associations and their nationalist yearnings. The idealization of Sand, who was beheaded in 1820, shows just how widespread the disaffection with the reactionary Metternich System was. Fragments of his scaffold were venerated like relics, lithographs depicting the stations of his lifeandnumerousportraitsexpressed utter repudiation of the German Confederations policies of repression.