Successful Hungarian independence means Austria gives up on them and decides to accept Germany? Not very likely, although possible. The rest of Germany accepting Hungary 'transleithania' is even less likely.... And maybe other places too, 1849-1918.
Successful Hungarian independence means Austria gives up on them and decides to accept Germany? Not very likely, although possible. The rest of Germany accepting Hungary 'transleithania' is even less likely.
How are you going to get the Hapsburgs to give up on Hungary, then?
He accepts the crown the Frankfort Assembly offered him in 1848. Problem solved at one stroke.
Of course, this requires a rather different Franz-Josef; he understood that accepting a crown from a democratic assembly was tantamount to admitting that the will of a democratic assembly could trump the will of God.
Consider delaying his father's renunciation of the throne, or delaying word of it to the Frankfort Assembly somehow. The FA offers the Imperial crown of Germany to Franz Karl, the dimwit accepts, and when he dies Franz Josef adds it to his collection.
True, and something the grossdeutschland supporters, not Franz Josef, will have to live with.
With Franz Josef as Emperor of Germany, what would be the status of the Kingdom of Bohemia? Another constituent kingdom, or might it get some type of pseudo-Ausgelich down the line as the Czechs gain national consciousness?
Wasn't it Friedrich Wilhelm IV who was offered the crown?
Wasn't it Friedrich Wilhelm IV who was offered the crown?
Umm... No, I don't have a list or anything, but there were more delegates than that just from Bohemia.My understanding is that the Grossdeutschesland solution was never a particularly serious proposal; To give you an idea, IIRC, there were something like all of 2 delegates from all of Austria.
The Frankfurt Constitution, now, claimed Bohemia and Austria for new Germany, but I have my doubts about whether it could have been enforced.
I'd like to think I'd know, as I just did my IB Extended Essay on it. But in truth, that just means I read some books and some 19th century documents.
Umm... No, I don't have a list or anything, but there were more delegates than that just from Bohemia.
Aside from the unreality of expecting Austria to dump Hungary, it was perfectly serious. IMO, it probably would have been the choice if Austria had been silly enough to accept. OTOH, there were many, often northern Protestants, who preferred a Prussian based Kleindeutschland Loesung from the beginning.
OT3H, places like Bavaria REALLY didn't like the idea of a Prussia dominated Reich.