All this reinforces my impression that emigrating without permission in Germany was just not a thing.
Looks like. Mind you, the huge immigration waves a century later both before and after the 1848 Revolution are another subject, but then laws were different in the 19th century anyway.
BTW, since you asked elsewhere: no, I can't make it to Berlin to read the Pfeiffer biography this year. Next year, we'll see. But this year is impossible.
Re: Random Pfeiffer
Looks like. Mind you, the huge immigration waves a century later both before and after the 1848 Revolution are another subject, but then laws were different in the 19th century anyway.
BTW, since you asked elsewhere: no, I can't make it to Berlin to read the Pfeiffer biography this year. Next year, we'll see. But this year is impossible.