German Revolutionary Wars

Let's say that the 1848 revolutions in Germany are successful. Is it possible this event could spark a Pan-European Anti-Democracy crusade just like the French Revolution did?
 
Let's say that the 1848 revolutions in Germany are successful. Is it possible this event could spark a Pan-European Anti-Democracy crusade just like the French Revolution did?

That's ASB IMHO.

To have an anti-democracy crusade, you'd need democracy discredited for a majority of the population, particularly the middle and upper classes. This requires at least an even nastier repeat of terreur and revolutionary wars starting from Germany 1848. Essentially the French revolution all over again. Nevertheless, you'd need to discredit democracy abroad as well. So I think the US should fail miserably as well. And then you'd still have Britain as an example how it could work.
 
I don't think (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) that the OP was talking about discrediting the concept of democracy, but of replaying the events of the French Revolution. And yes, a Terror in Vienna or Berlin would provoke international reaction, certainly from Russia, and possibly from Britain and France (if we assume the 1848 Revolution fails in France, or else Napoleon III is a fast-moving idiot and intervenes in Germany for no terribly good reason, there's France. Britain is not in the mood for foreign adventurism, but if it honestly looks like a German Napoleon may arise...they have to do something).
 
Let's say that the 1848 revolutions in Germany are successful. Is it possible this event could spark a Pan-European Anti-Democracy crusade just like the French Revolution did?

The problem would rather be how to define German borders. Revolutionary Germany actually got into a war with Denmark à la 1864. Other potential places for trouble:

- Luxemburg
- Limburg (Dutch part of the German confederation)
- Bohemia (the Czechs were quite reluctant to be seen as part of a German national state)
- anything to do with a possible collapse of the Habsburg monarchy
- Italy - some member of the Nationalversammlung considered the region between Milano and Venezia as "Southern Germany"
 
What I basically meant was that if a Democratic Germany formed would the great powers be scared enough to launch a war to prevent it from gaining power?
 

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Let's say that the 1848 revolutions in Germany are successful. Is it possible this event could spark a Pan-European Anti-Democracy crusade just like the French Revolution did?
It wasn't so much anti-democratic as it was anti-Republican
 
What I basically meant was that if a Democratic Germany formed would the great powers be scared enough to launch a war to prevent it from gaining power?

Afterwards, it would be impossible to tell whether it happened to restore the monarchic order (however,a pure democracy without a monarchical figurehead was not really realistic IMHO) or whether Germany's neighbours united to stop the creation of a united political giant in the middle of Europe.

A united Germany laid in nobody's interest, from London, to Paris, to St. Petersburg.
 

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What I basically meant was that if a Democratic Germany formed would the great powers be scared enough to launch a war to prevent it from gaining power?
Well, it would be a Germany with the German parts of Austria included, which would lead to several problems:
1. Revolutionary mood in Italy as Lombardia and Venetia get independence
2. Czechs and Germans squabble over Bohemia- Moravia
3. Hungary get independence but is dragged into wars agaisnt the Croats and the Romanians of Transylvania.
4, The Habsburgs stand suddenly without an Empire, and that's no good, since we all know how awesome they are.
 
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