As the parliamentary debates turned in August toward the relationship between church and state, Fallmerayer assumed an uncompromising anti-clerical stance, and his reputation among the left delegates increased.Leeb, Fallmerayer, 203-4. In October he supported a series of motions put forward by the far-left faction.Leeb, Fallmerayer, 204-5. In January 1848 he again supported the far-left proposal according to which the new, united Germany was to be led by a democratically elected president.Leeb, Fallmerayer, 206. In June, finally, he followed the radical Rumpfparlament, which represented the last attempt to preserve the parliamentary structure that had been established in 1848, to Stuttgart.Leeb, Fallmerayer, 209-11. On the Rumpfparlament see the article in the German Wikipedia. The Bavarian regime had forbidden its delegates to participate in the Stuttgart Parliament, and following its forcible break-up on June 18 by Württembergian troops, Fallmerayer fled to Switzerland.Leeb, Fallmerayer, 211-13. In September 1849 his appointment to the faculty of the University of Munich was revoked by Maximilian II.Leeb, Fallmerayer, 140. In December 1849 the Bavarian members of the Stuttgart Parliament were offered amnesty, and in April 1850 Fallmerayer returned to Munich.Leeb, Fallmerayer, 214-15.
