AHC: German Empire in 1848/49

Well, what the title says. A successful formation of a German Empire due to the March Revolution. Bonus points for the Greater German solution.

Also, if there's already a thread about this with like, a hundred pages, I have to apologize. Searching the forum gets me an error message.
 
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Seraphiel

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Maybe you can have Friedrich William accept the crown for the Emperor? Im not quite aure how you could make that happen though. He seemed like quite a stauch monarchist and the Frankfurt Assemly wanted to create a constitutional monarchy.
 
Maybe you can have Friedrich William accept the crown for the Emperor? Im not quite aure how you could make that happen though. He seemed like quite a stauch monarchist and the Frankfurt Assemly wanted to create a constitutional monarchy.

That was my first thought too but he thought of nobility as the people chosen by god to lead and the March Revolution was quite a bit representational - he shouldn't have to accept a worthless crown from commoners. Choosing someone else as emperor would probably not possible, because Prussia wouldn't bow to anyone and an Empire without them wouldn't be very German. An assassination of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. would not work either because his successor, our Kaiser Wilhelm I., even acquired a nickname from putting down the revolution.
 
Would Austria have been interested in uniting the German States and making an Austrian led German Empire? Only issue that might occur is that mostly Lutheran Prussia might not want Catholic Austrians ruling
 
Would Austria have been interested in uniting the German States and making an Austrian led German Empire? Only issue that might occur is that mostly Lutheran Prussia might not want Catholic Austrians ruling

I don't think the being Catholic would be the big problem. The problem would be that the Prussians in my opinion wouldn't have been content with the second place - they had already shown they were as least powerful as the Austrians. That's why the Frankfurt parliament in the end decided not to try and include Austria in their version of the German Empire.
 

Seraphiel

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You could also create a stronger more radical March Revolution which forces Friedrich to accept the crown, either the revolutionaries do that or Freidrich does it himself out of fear of a German Republic forming. Id have to resaerch it more to really say if this scenarion would be plausible.
 
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