What if...
In February of 1815, while the Congress is in recess due to Napoleon’s escape from Elba, Prince Klemens von Metternich, the Austrian minister of state who acted as president of the Congress, dies in a freak horse-riding accident...
Now, with Congress reconvening, we have several enormous figure advocating for the unification of the German states. With the foremost and most crucial opponent to the unification, Prince Klemens von Metternich, lying in a grave, Prince Karl August von Hardenberg, Baron Heinrich von Stein, and Alexander I of Russia take this as an oppurtunity to create the German Empire, in 1815.
Now what happens?
In February of 1815, while the Congress is in recess due to Napoleon’s escape from Elba, Prince Klemens von Metternich, the Austrian minister of state who acted as president of the Congress, dies in a freak horse-riding accident...
Now, with Congress reconvening, we have several enormous figure advocating for the unification of the German states. With the foremost and most crucial opponent to the unification, Prince Klemens von Metternich, lying in a grave, Prince Karl August von Hardenberg, Baron Heinrich von Stein, and Alexander I of Russia take this as an oppurtunity to create the German Empire, in 1815.
Now what happens?