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Karl du Thil
Karl du Thil was a conservative statesman of the Grand Duchy of Hesse who dominated its government from 1829 until the revolution of 1848. He helped bring Hesse into a customs union with Prussia in 1828, a forerunner of the Zollverein, while suppressing radical and democratic opposition, including the circle of Georg Büchner and Friedrich Ludwig Weidig.
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