German-Austrian divorce

Between Treaty of Frankfurt in 1871 and 1900, how to break apart Austro-German alliance, revive antagonism between the two countries and realign alliance system throughout Europe ?
 
Between Treaty of Frankfurt in 1871 and 1900, how to break apart Austro-German alliance, revive antagonism between the two countries and realign alliance system throughout Europe ?

You would need to have another Great Power willing to ally with Germany. Unless the UK allies with them AH is about the best they are going to do. They might be able to ally with Russia but that is a long shot. France is right out and Italy is too weak to matter much.

As far as AH is concerned it needs to ally with Germany to have much chance at surviving at all with Russia getting stronger by the year.
 
I think a possibility would be an Austro-Russian agreemne about the carve up of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. - Bismarck tries OTL Berlin conference about the matter but fails, so Austria and Russia come out better than OTL and bury the grievances from the Crimean War.
You need a better Budapest Convention of 1877.
 
You would need to have another Great Power willing to ally with Germany. Unless the UK allies with them AH is about the best they are going to do. They might be able to ally with Russia but that is a long shot. France is right out and Italy is too weak to matter much.

As far as AH is concerned it needs to ally with Germany to have much chance at surviving at all with Russia getting stronger by the year.

How about a better performing Italy and/or a stronger Ottoman Empire keeping watch on the southern Balkans? Is that enough to tip the scales against the alliance since then Austria-Hungary would have more options?
 
Maybe the Dreikaiserbund breaks up with Germany and Russia still aligned, and Austria-Hungary on the outside?

One thing I remember about Austria-Hungary is Rudolph and his views that Austria's future lay in Constantinople. He was also rumoured to have potentially committed treason in his talks with Hungarians, possibly a factor in his suicide.

If he lives and creates a crisis through this latter aspect, it would pull the empire in several different directions, probably leading to a stand-off between Franz Josef and his son and factions aligned to both. Say, Rudolph is able to come out of this on top, his father abdicates (which would seem to be becoming a tradition) and Rudolph, now with Hungarian backing as well as Austrian, casts his eyes on the glittering prize?

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Grey Wolf
 
Between Treaty of Frankfurt in 1871 and 1900, how to break apart Austro-German alliance, revive antagonism between the two countries and realign alliance system throughout Europe ?

austria-hungary gets an industrial revolution like germany and starts to assert its own interests again instead of playing german lapdog.
 
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