During the
Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, Ludolf Camphausen stepped suddenly from his banker's desk at
Cologne to the presidential chair of the Ministry of State at Berlin, being called by King
Frederick William IV of Prussia to succeed
Count Arnim-Boitzenburg as prime minister, on 29 March. Ludolf availed himself largely of his younger brother's (
Otto) proven business talents, and the two might have succeeded had they not to encounter the insincerity of the monarch on the one side, and the distrust of the Radical and Progressist majority of the Assembly on the other side. ==See also==