Luxembourg, 1946 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a military coup conspiracy in Luxembourg on 2 August 1946, in the immediate postwar years of the restored Grand Ducal government under Grand Duchess Charlotte, who had returned from wartime exile after the liberation of the country from German occupation in 1944 and 1945. Luxembourg in this period was a small constitutional monarchy focused on postwar reconstruction, the punishment of wartime collaborators, and the reorientation of its long-standing neutrality, which it formally abandoned when it became a founding member of NATO in 1949. No discrete documentation of a distinct coup plot in Luxembourg on this date appears in accessible English sources, and the constitutional order under Grand Duchess Charlotte and her governments was never seriously challenged.
Luxembourg remained a stable parliamentary democracy throughout the period and became a founding member of the Benelux customs union, NATO, and later the European institutions.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
21208021946
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: The restored Grand Ducal government under Grand Duchess Charlotte retained power; Luxembourg remained a stable constitutional monarchy.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
New York Times
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