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Is there any way that, in the Habsburg disaster scenario, a young Franz Josef is persuaded to give up on Hungary and Italy in favor of the German crown? Or is that just too absurd?
If the Habsburg get a *real* leap of insight, they may divide their lands in three parts, each ruled by a member of their family. One Habsburg (Franz Joseph) becomes Emperor of Germany, another (Maximilian) King of Italy, a third (Karl Ludwig) King of Hungary. The three states to be bound by an economic union, military alliance, and dynastic pact. As long as they get a liberal constitution and national unity or independence, German, Italian, and Hungarian patriots don't really mind who gets his backside on the throne.
It'd be awfully absurd. Plus, the Prussians would never stand for it.
The Prussians may bought into the plan with concessions that make them second-in-command within Germany, with a serious share of power (e.g. they have a lion's share in the command of the German military), and promise of putting a Hohenzollern on the thrones of Poland and the unified Baltic states, to be set up in a case of war with Russia. As a placeholder for this, they can set up an independent Polish kingdom of Posen-Galicia, with an Hohenzollern on the throne.
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