Austrian Kleindeutschland

Your challenge, should you accept it, is to let Austria unite Germany, but without Prussia. POD can be as early as you want (but I doubt it would be necessary to have a POD earlier than 1716). When I write without Prussia, this might still mean that Austria conquers areas in the west of Germany that Prussia got in 1815 (either by having a POD after 1815 where Austria conquers this area from Prussia, or an earlier POD where Prussia never controls those areas. I assume that it would be helpful if Prussia never conquers Silesia. Maybe Prussia is more unfortunate with its kings.
 
Your challenge, should you accept it, is to let Austria unite Germany, but without Prussia. POD can be as early as you want (but I doubt it would be necessary to have a POD earlier than 1716). When I write without Prussia, this might still mean that Austria conquers areas in the west of Germany that Prussia got in 1815 (either by having a POD after 1815 where Austria conquers this area from Prussia, or an earlier POD where Prussia never controls those areas. I assume that it would be helpful if Prussia never conquers Silesia. Maybe Prussia is more unfortunate with its kings.

Make Prussia Keep third partition territories and won Saxony post Napoleon, having a more Polish Oriented prussia will make them outside germany, thus we going to have a Austro-German and a Prussian-Poland.
 
Make Prussia Keep third partition territories and won Saxony post Napoleon, having a more Polish Oriented prussia will make them outside germany, thus we going to have a Austro-German and a Prussian-Poland.

But Austria would of course still have a much larger non-German population than Prussia.
 
But Austria would of course still have a much larger non-German population than Prussia.

Depends on the definition of Austria you are using.

Austria like it was in the 1860s?

If We refer to Cislethania(minus Galicia-Lodevaria) Yes,that is the austria i would refer(hungary come to the ride too), maybe a swap, Prussia got Galicia and some more polish land and Austria get the rhineland and they swap Bavaria for the Austrian Netherlands?
 
But would Ausgleich still happen in this case? Wasn´t this the result of Austrian defeat in the Austro-Prussian War? Would the compromise still have happened if they either had won this war (if this war was the POD) or the POD had been earlier so that the 1867 war was butterflied away?
 
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