Carl Schurz, Reminiscences (3 volumes), New York: The McClure Company, 1907. Schurz mentions von Bethmann-Hollweg in Chapter V of Volume One in his role as "government authority" at the University of Bonn at the beginning of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany: "This office had been created at the time of the 'persecution of demagogues,' after the notorious ministerial conferences at Carlsbad, and was therefore in bad odor with liberal-minded men. The officer in question was at that time Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg. More on account of his duties than of his personal qualities he was highly unpopular with the students. We thought that such an officer, a product of the period of deepest degradation, did not fit the new order of things and must speedily be abolished." Consequently, a large group of students met and ultimately marched to the rector's home with an appropriate petition.