Note that you'd still get trouble and dissent plentifully.Yup, Napoleon annexing the western, Francophone parts of Switzerland directly to France, and turning the rest of Switzerland into a loyal puppet regime. Follow that up with a longer-lastying Napoleonic regime and a different resolution to the conflict, and you can see a scenerio where restored-monarchy France gets to keep the former parts of Switzerland it annexed, while the remained of Switzerland is used as a bargaining chip in the negotiations of which German ruler gets what. Thus, rump-Switzerland gets divided between German sovereigns, and is firmly pulled into the amalgation of German states. When Germany eventually unifies, rump-Switzerland is included.
(This is easier than trying to include the Francophone parts, too. That's just another cause for trouble and dissent, which one should ideally wish to avoid.)
Congress of Vienna force a monarchy in Switzerland in an ideological move. Causing multiple civil wars which forces a German power to intervene a la Prussia in 1848.
Note that you'd still get trouble and dissent plentifully.
Not anti-German feeling.How much anti-German feeling was there in German Switzerland in the late 1700s/1800s? Do we have examples of it?
How much anti-German feeling was there in German Switzerland in the late 1700s/1800s? Do we have examples of it?
Yup, Napoleon annexing the western, Francophone parts of Switzerland directly to France, and turning the rest of Switzerland into a loyal puppet regime. Follow that up with a longer-lastying Napoleonic regime and a different resolution to the conflict, and you can see a scenerio where restored-monarchy France gets to keep the former parts of Switzerland it annexed, while the remained of Switzerland is used as a bargaining chip in the negotiations of which German ruler gets what. Thus, rump-Switzerland gets divided between German sovereigns, and is firmly pulled into the amalgation of German states. When Germany eventually unifies, rump-Switzerland is included.
(This is easier than trying to include the Francophone parts, too. That's just another cause for trouble and dissent, which one should ideally wish to avoid.)
Not anti-German feeling.
But defiant, militant appreciation of one`s ancient traditions of republicanism, independence, neutrality, and (within historical parameters) democracy.
Of that we have countless examples throughout Swiss history.
There was no "anti-German" feeling in Switzerland because, after Swiss victories over the Habsburgs, there had not been any attempts by any German power to rob them of these achievements. None. At all. Ever. (Note that there were none afterwards, either. Not even the Nazis attacked Switzerland.)
Anti-Habsburg and keeping out of groups that made them even theoretically under them. When people left them alone they did the same in turn. Europeans back before the Age of Revolutions thought that republics and democratic rule only worked in small states, and the Swiss Cantons fit that model, so not even going to be some ideological attempt to crush their government. Kind of like with the Austrians, Prussians, and Russians bribing people in Poland to keep everything a mess, actually. The Swiss were no threat and basically acted as a convenient buffer zone. Without them I expect the area would have seen a fair few more wars, though in a settin long before the PODIt's not so much "anti-German" as it is "we liked being independent".
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Not really and to be honest I'm basically just copying from Jared's Decades of Darkness which had a unique set of circumstances based around the idea of europe being more anti-republican due to the alt USA*.What would it take to do this? They had a very strong monarchical principle to the Congress on our timeline, turning the Dutch into a monarchy for example. Was there any discussion of this for Switzerland?