Republic of Mainz

The Republic of Mainz, also known was the Rhenish-German Free State, was the first democratic state on the current German territory and was centered in Mainz. A product of the French Revolutionary Wars, it lasted from March to July 1793.

Politics
The democratically elected parliament called Rheinisch-Deutscher Nationalkonvent (Rhenish-German National Convention). It first met in the Deutschhaus on the 17 March of 1793 when it's president Andreas Joseph Hofmann declared the territory of the Republic of Mainz, which had formerly been occupied by the French First Republic, to be a free and democratic republic disassociated with the empire. The republic issued copper coins in 1793.