What are the possible PODs that make it that Prussia isn't Austria's rival for German hegemony?
Or, alternatively, how can we make German dualism not exist?
Or, alternatively, how can we make German dualism not exist?
Simply have Prussia taken out as an effective nation durring the political-ethnic clusterfuck that was the Baroque era if you want to prevent it rising as a rival. Maybe Poland-Lithuania or Sweden totally stomps 'em into the ground? Maybe an earlier POD where the Teutonic Order never reforms into a more secular body and simply ceases to work as a political machine?
Keeping away German Dualism entirely will probably require butterflying the Reformation. Hard for a number of reasons, political, geographic, and cultural/religious.
Perhaps at the latest a total Austrian victory in the *30 Years War?
What are the possible PODs that make it that Prussia isn't Austria's rival for German hegemony?
Or, alternatively, how can we make German dualism not exist?
Would a conquest of Ducal Prussia by Poland do? In OTL it was the Polish king merely accepting them as a vassal state that eventually bit them in the butt in the long run.
Or, if Frederick the Great isn't Frederick the Lucky TTL...
Ducal Prussia while a nice source of capital wasn't the fundament for the Prussian state, Brandenburg, Magdeburg and Pommern was. Even if the Hohenzollern didn't have Prussia they would still be able to make the reform which made them so strong.
It did provide a reason for Frederick to try and connect his domains via eating Poland, though.
Though I suppose another POD could be the Great Elector not being as successful.
Or Leopold I doesn't give Frederick III/I the title of King in Prussia?
CheaterOr Leopold I doesn't give Frederick III/I the title of King in Prussia?
CheaterKing in Brandenburg, King in Prussia, same thing. Was Prussia being outside the HRE the reason they were made King in Prussia instead of Brandenburg? Or was it just random?