Could the teutonic order unify Germany?

[Zygmunt Stary]

I can't read after this, this is literally "ear linguistics". You know, the kind of stuff that later leads to turboslav theories lol. Please.

"Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) seem to have been generic terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (especially beer, boards, wooden chests and leather), and the tree thus was believed to be particular to Prussia, which for a time was figurative in England as a land of luxuries."

The 1378 version sounds nearly identical to Polish word, but tho it being attested in 1378 kinda confirms your version about active England-TO trade (tho it still wasn't possible for it to be lucrative enough to make up for the disastrous conditions Prussia has. But I've posted that theory (about spruce being derived from "z Prus") as a fact, sorry about that, I shouldn't have done that. Still it is more likely than turboslav theories, TO state had large Polish-speaking population.

 

[Gukpard]

It didn't. The Teutonic army was by all accounts significantly larger than the Polish army (alone) even at Grunwald, when the Order had already begun to decline, and Grunwald was also by all contemporary accounts narrowly won. The Thirteen Years War, when the Order had to fight a civil war alongside fighting Poland, took Poland over a decade to win.

Order State got it's ass kicked by Poland,

This is like saying that Paraguay was a military power since they won one single battle in the triple alliance war or that the Zulus were superior to the british due their only single victory.

They didn't get their asss kicked, they barely lost the only battle that mattered at that point.

 

[Dr. Hochmeister]

Not without an exceedingly bizarre and improbable set of circumstances. The most plausible scenario I can imagine and spitball is one where the Pope wins the investiture controversy and retains a lot more temporal power. Things kinda lurch forwards similarly to OTL afterwards, but sometime in the 1400's you get a precocious Reformation centered in Germany that sparks a massive civil war throughout Christendom between pro and anti Papal forces. In response the Church starts to take even more temporal power to combat the alt-Protestantism, the TO becomes the center of the Catholic side of the German civil war, and effectively "conquers" the rest of Germany as the agent of the Pope for stomping out alt-Protestantism.

 

[Zygmunt Stary]

This is like saying that Paraguay was a military power since they won one single battle in the triple alliance war or that the Zulus were superior to the british due their only single victory.

They didn't get their asss kicked, they barely lost the only battle that mattered at that point.

Poland had more population and income than TO state, and also it laid siege to TO's capital and also Grunwald wasn't only battle that Poles won, afterwards there was battle of Koronowo which Poles also won, comparison with Paraguay and Zulu ends here, period.