Economic Effects of Prohibition in Imperial Germany?

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What would be the short and long term economic effects that a national alcohal prohibition ordinance would have on Imperial Germany if it was passed by the Reichstag circa 1900?

(I asked something similar here for Ireland)
 

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No way in hell it would pass. You'd have open rebellion in the country. Plus given Germany's taxation on alcohol it would collapse the budget.
 

LordKalvert

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No way in hell it would pass. You'd have open rebellion in the country. Plus given Germany's taxation on alcohol it would collapse the budget.

Doubt if it would pass and some of the various Kingdoms would take the Maryland approach and just not enforce it, but open rebellion? That's not a given- Nicholas II sneaks in prohibition in Russia of all places and doesn't provoke a revolt for over two years

If anyone enacted prohibition, I would also assume that they found something else to tax. Usually when things like this go wrong, its because people missed something (like bootlegging and smuggling) but that's just too obvious
 
The Reichstag would burn... or the Austrians, armed with the fine products of the Gösser, Pilsner and Budweiser breweries, would invade to restore order and the Reinheitsgebot. In which case I would expect the German Army to defect en masse to their once and future Kaiser. :D
 
Even Hitler knew that prohibition would be bad idea. How any sane chancellor could even think prohibition?
 
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