(Redirected from List of German Confederation member states)The 'States of the German Confederation' were those member states that from
June 20,
1815 were part of the
German Confederation, which lasted, with some changes in the member states, until
August 24,
1866, under the presidency of the Austrian imperial house of
Habsburg, which was represented by an Austrian presidential envoy to the Federal
diet in
Frankfurt.
Explanation
On the whole, its territory nearly coincided with that remaining in the
Holy Roman Empire when
Napoleon caused its end; with the exception of the two rivalling major powers,
Habsburg and
Prussia, and the western left bank of the Rhine (which France had annexed, with tiny Katzenelnbogen) the other member states or their precursors, most of present
Germany, had been within his
Confederation of the Rhine.
#The
Austrian Empire (without the
Kingdom of Hungary,
Transylvania,
Bukowina, and
Croatia, which became the apostolic kingdom of Hungary within the Danubian
Dual Monarchy, the
Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (constituting parts lost to Italy in 1859- viz. 1866), the kingdoms of
Dalmatia and
Galicia)
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Austria (split into
Upper Austria and
Lower Austria in
1849)
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Bohemia
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Carinthia
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Carniola
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Littoral (consisting of
Gorizia and Gradisca,
Istria and
Trieste)
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Moravia
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Salzburg
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Silesia
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Styria
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Tyrol
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Vorarlberg
#The
Kingdom of Prussia (without
Posen,
East Prussia and
West Prussia)
##
Brandenburg the homeland, with the capital
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Pomerania
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Rheinland (until 1822,
Niederrhein and
Jülich-Kleve-Berg)
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Saxony
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Silesia
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Westphalia (different from and significantly smaller than the former Napoleonic
Kingdom of Westphalia)
#The
Kingdom of Bavaria (the third largest member)
#The
Kingdom of Hanover
#The
Kingdom of Saxony
#The
Kingdom of Württemberg
#The
Electorate of Hesse
#The Grand Duchy of
Baden
#The Grand Duchy of
Hesse
#The Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg (lost in 1839 over
half of its territory in the west to Belgium, in the aftermath of the breakup of the
United Kingdom of the Netherlands; only the easternmore present independent country, then in personal union with the Dutch crown, remained in the Confederation until 1866)
#The Grand Duchy of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
#The Grand Duchy of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
#The Grand Duchy of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
#The Duchy of
Anhalt-Dessau (Duchy of
Anhalt from
1863)
#The Duchy of
Anhalt-Bernburg (to
1863)
#The Duchy of
Anhalt-Köthen (to
1847)
#The Duchy of
Brunswick-Lüneburg, or Brunswick for short
#The Duchy of
Holstein (in personal union with the Kingdom of
Denmark, was not a former member of the Confederation of the Rhine)
##The Duchy of
Schleswig (in personal union with the Kingdom of Denmark, was not a former member of either the
Holy Roman Empire or the Confederation of the Rhine. The secessionist (pro-German) government of Schleswig-Holstein (
1848–
51) joined Schleswig to the Confederation. This was not recognized by the Danish government, and the peace settlement in 1851 specified that Schleswig was not a member.
#The
Duchy of Lauenburg
#The
Duchy of Limburg (became a member in 1839 after losing
half of its territory in the west to Belgium, in the aftermath of the breakup of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands; only the easternmore present
Dutch province of Limburg was in the Confederation)
#The
Duchy of Nassau
#The Duchy of
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (to
1825)
#The Duchy of
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from
1826)
#The Duchy of
Saxe-Meiningen
#The Duchy of
Saxe-Hildburghausen (
Saxe-Altenburg from
1826)
#The Duchy of
Oldenburg (
Grand Duchy from
1829)
#The Landgraviate of
Hesse-Homburg (from
1817)
#The Principality of
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
#The Principality of
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
#The Principality of
Hohenzollern-Hechingen (to
1850)
#The Principality of
Liechtenstein
#The Principality of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (to
1850)
#The Principality of
Waldeck
#The Principality of
Reuss Senior Line
#The Principality of
Reuss Junior Line
#The Principality of
Schaumburg-Lippe
#The Principality of
Lippe
#The Free City of
Lübeck
#The Free City of
Frankfurt
#The Free City of
Bremen (still a constitutive state of federal Germany)
#The Free City of
Hamburg (still a constitutive state of federal Germany)
Sources and references
★ Westermann, ''Großer Atlass zur Weltgeschichte'' (in German, detailed maps)
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