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The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
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Republic of Mainz
German state from March-July 1793; client state of Revolutionary France
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Andreas Joseph Hofmann
18/19th-century German philosopher and revolutionary
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