1866 Saxony regains it´s territory

Anderman

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Let´s say in 1866 Saxony makes Prussia a proposal to fight with Prussia against Austria and the rest of the German states if Prussia returns the territory back that Saxony lost at the Congress of Vienna. And Prussia agrees. So ss this ASB and how would the balance of Power change in the North German Confederation and later in the Empire ?
 
Let´s say in 1866 Saxony makes Prussia a proposal to fight with Prussia against Austria and the rest of the German states if Prussia returns the territory back that Saxony lost at the Congress of Vienna. And Prussia agrees. So ss this ASB and how would the balance of Power change in the North German Confederation and later in the Empire ?


Most unlikely. Hohenzollerns were almost never willing to give away territory.

They might, howewver, offer him all or part of Bohemia, which would have sizeable consequences.
 
A Saxon Sudetenland? That would create some wonderfully weird borders!
Isn't the idea of Sudetenland more or less a 20th century idea? I believe that in the 19th century people wouldn't have realy cared that much about what language the inhabitants of a region spoke.

Personaly I don't think Prussia would give up their former Saxon parts so easily. In Vienna they wanted all of Saxony after all. I think a better way would be Saxony allying themselves with the enemies of Prussia and actually winning the war.
 
Isn't the idea of Sudetenland more or less a 20th century idea? I believe that in the 19th century people wouldn't have realy cared that much about what language the inhabitants of a region spoke.

Personaly I don't think Prussia would give up their former Saxon parts so easily. In Vienna they wanted all of Saxony after all. I think a better way would be Saxony allying themselves with the enemies of Prussia and actually winning the war.

Apart from stuff like Pan-Slavism the Great Powers preferred to sidestep ethnolinguistic considerations pre-WWI.
 
Isn't the idea of Sudetenland more or less a 20th century idea? I believe that in the 19th century people wouldn't have realy cared that much about what language the inhabitants of a region spoke.

They were starting to.

Iirc Wilhelm I wanted to annex Saxony and also Austrian territory corresponding to most of what would later be called the "Sudetenland". Bismarck, for good or ill, argued him out of it in favour of other annexartions. The King's proposals make little geographic or economic sense, so I can only assume that he had nationality in mind. He wanted to take some Germans away from Austria, but not too many Czechs.

As for the term itself, I'm not sure when it was coined - possibly only in the 1930s as a convenient "shorthand" for the areas Hitler was claiming. In the WW1 period I think it was sometimes called "German Bohemia", though that too is misleading as much of it was in Moravia and Austrian Silesia.
 
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