Another victim was Robert Blum (1807–48), a worker from Cologne who had been employed as a gardener, a goldsmith and an operative in a lamp factory. Blum’s talent for oratory had won him a seat in the Frankfurt Parliament, which had sent him to Vienna to support the revolution; he was arrested for treason and executed on 9 November (the first but far from the last time that this date marked a major turning point in German history).
