The role of Austria in German unification the mid-nineteenth - century
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https://doi.org/10.51453/2354-1431/2019/212Keywords:
Austria; the German Confederation 1815-1866; the German unification; the German nineteenth-century question.Abstract
Austria was the most powerful country in the German-speaking world in Central Europe in the mid-nineteenth century and was one of the founding parties, but the only party in the role of leadership of the German Confederation 1815-1866. The problem is that Austria never intended to accept its normal membership in the German Confederation 1815-1866. Austrian participation in this union was actually nothing but an implicit agreement among European powers. Austria did in fact only want to rule this confederation in order to dominate and use other member states as political tools for its own benefits rather than to build a powerfully united Germany in Central Europe. Austria was, therefore, expected to become the leading force of the German unification, but in reality became the main obstacle and defeated object of the German nineteenth-century question.
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