Vienna October Uprising (1848)
빈 10월 봉기 (1848)
The rising that began on 6 October 1848 when workers, students and mutinous soldiers in Vienna tried to stop imperial troops leaving to suppress Hungary. The war minister Latour was killed and the court fled to Olmütz, but the armies of Windischgrätz and Jelačić stormed Vienna on 31 October and executed its leaders, ending the Austrian revolution of 1848.
In depth
Crowds sympathetic to Hungary blocked the departing troops; blood was spilt in St Stephen's Cathedral and the war minister, Count Baillet von Latour, was lynched. Count Auersperg, commander of the garrison, evacuated the city and entrenched himself outside it; Emperor Ferdinand fled to Olmütz on 7 October and the Reichstag moved to Kremsier. On 26 October Austrian and Croatian forces of about 75,000 began a bombardment.
The Hungarian army crossed the border under pressure from Kossuth but was defeated at Schwechat on 30 October, and the next day imperial troops stormed the centre. Józef Bem, who led the defence, escaped, but Messenhauser, Becher, Jellinek and Robert Blum, who invoked his parliamentary immunity, were executed. The two sides lost about 2,000 men. Engels devoted two chapters of Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany to the rising and the fall of Vienna.