The French Revolution is a key event in European history and rightly an important topic in history classes. The French Revolution had a long prehistory, took an intense course, and had a broad impact on most Central European states. This collection of sources contains numerous documents of varying levels of complexity that can be used in both lower and upper secondary education. Particularly numerous are the sources that illustrate to students the impact of the French Revolution on the population in the German states. This not only concerns the resonance of revolutionary ideas in the German intellectual world but also concrete political actions within Germany itself.