With a few military missteps ca. 1915 and Charles and Austria-Hungary quitting the war in late 1916/1917 perhaps leading to an earlier German loss at the hands of UK/France/Russia, what happens to the German state? I was reading a bit about the more extreme post WW2-partition plans, and was wondering if anything like that was on the table for Germany in any post WW1-plans. Is some kind of vague restoration of a new German Confederation feasible? Or is basically OTL's territorial cessions more or less the worst that could have happened?