Challenge: Switzerland unifies Germany

Clearly this would require a very early POD, and is probably ASB. Nevertheless, I issue this challenge: Have Switzerland unify most of Germany the way that Prussia did in real life. Obviously they don't have to absorb all of the Germanic states, just most of them the way Prussia did in OTL. What caused Switzerland to develop their constant policy of neutrality, and what could prevent this?
 
Clearly this would require a very early POD, and is probably ASB. Nevertheless, I issue this challenge: Have Switzerland unify most of Germany the way that Prussia did in real life. Obviously they don't have to absorb all of the Germanic states, just most of them the way Prussia did in OTL. What caused Switzerland to develop their constant policy of neutrality, and what could prevent this?
Hapsburgs crush the original revolt in 1291 and contineu ruling from what is now Hapsburg, Switzerland. They still have control of Vienna, and that might become capital for various reasons anyway, but that's suddenly a much larger power base to work from. Even this is nowhere near a guarantee of unifying Germany though.

The Swiss Confederation doing it is totally ASB. Even if they don't lose at mortengau(IIRC) their expansion will be stopped eventually, they simply can't compete with France, hell, they can't really compete with most of the HRE for that matter.

As much as I'd love a real true Swiss wank, it's completely unlikely unless you have, say, the Mongols come through and destroy everybody else in the HRE like B_Munro has in some of his maps and the Swiss come down from the mountains to pick up the pieces.
 
Switzerland was a decentralized state. A very decentralized state. Individual ctiy-state cantons such as Geneva or Bern had greater influence in the Confederation than, say, Holland or Friesland ever did in the United Provinces. As a result, there was virtually no drive towards expansion, since any attempts as conquest would just give one canton more power over the rest of the Confederation, while peaceful expansion by incorporating willing states would just lessen the influence of the old cantons in Switzerland.

You'd probably have to radically centralize the state somewhere in the 16th-18th centuries. Simply installing a monarch wouldn't cut it-- kings are just as likely to allow decentralizing (and thus expansion-inhibiting) tendancies fly, and the very terrain of Switzerland itself makes absolute monarchy hard to pull off. Your best bet is probably some military-based quasi-republican dictatorship à la Cromwellian England, but even that'll encounter difficulties within a generation or two of its founding just due to the inherent flaws of a republican Dictatorship like that.
 
The easiest way would be to have the Mongols destroy the HRE, leaving the swiss conferderacy to pick up the pieces. This is what happend IOTL with Litauen and the Kiev rus. The problem is that the Mongol invasions actually predate the formation of Switzerland (1291) by a few decades, so you would have to delay them a bit.
 
This "***some entity***unifies Germany" concept leans, of course, closely on what actually happened in the 19th century; usually, unifications involve action from all relevant parties, don't you think?

Switzerland, or the Old Swiss Confederation, was a fragile system of alliances; it is very peculiar that it survived until its independence from the HRE. If you take a PoD in the late 15th century, the SC can grow a more powerful player inside the HRE, perhaps by taking over the Swabian Union from the inside. With some stretch, they may even become one of the most influential powers in it, by keeping Bavaria and Austria at bay; however, a federalistic entitity is unlikely to centralize a larger one like the Empire.
 
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