By January 1871, agreements were reached, and the 2 nd German Empire was established. If they agreed to join with and organize into a new German Empire, they would have some power and authority in the new regime. In the 1860’s the Prussian ministerial president serving under King Wilhelm of Prussia made a deal with rulers of those German areas Prussia had not been able to conquer such as the Baden, Bavaria, Württemberg, Mecklenburg, and so forth. This became known as the Austrian Empire.īeginning in 1820, custom unions began to be established in the western areas of the old empire. The last ruling family of the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation,” the Hapsburgs, retreated into the Eastern Areas, and reorganized the Germanic areas into a new empire, which they ruled.
When Napoleon Bonaparte began his conquest, the whole empire began to break up. From 1701 on, a large chunk of this empire was known as the Kingdom of Prussia. to 1806, there was an entity known as the ‘Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation,’ ruled by an emperor and the nobility. Orts Und Verkehrslexikon Historical Perspective įrom the time of Charlemagne (Karl der Grosse) 800 A.D. Family History PATRON CLASS HANDOUT Library (Ref 943 E5mo)
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