Georg Forster
The French revolutionary army that was under General Custine got control of Mainz on 21 October 1792. Two days after this, Forster joined in creating a Jacobin Club. It was called "Freunde der Freiheit und Gleichheit" ("Friends of Freedom and Equality"). He helped in organizing the Mainz Republic in 1793. The first one made in Germany was a democracy. Forster became the vice-president the their administration. He was a candidate in the election for the local parliament, the  (Rhenish-German National Convention). He was an editor of  (The new Mainz newspaper or The People's Friend) from January to March 1793. In his first article that he made, he wrote: