Have Prussia be considered Polish or Non German with a POD after it unifies with Brandenburg

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Hmmm. I suppose that you mean, that the brandenburgian Hohenzollern first got Ducal Prussia, thanks to the idiocy of polish kings, but later still something happens and Ducal Prussia becomes Polish even in linguistic, demographic, or political sense.

I can think about two things.

That Frederic I, this guy who was the first King in Prussia, does a move like Augustus of Saxony, and becomes the king of Poland. But this union is more stable, and in further generations lead to integration of Prussia/Brandenburg with Poland. And as a typical think in "pars pro toto" this new entity is just called Poland in the world.

Other think is that during the Deluge and after that Poland does better, and smashes treacherous Frederic Wilhelm of Brandenburg, and regains Ducal Prussia and incorporate it to the Crown.

Edit.

After the 2WW Poland gets not only the southern half of Eastern Prussia, but also the northern half, where lies Kaliningrad Region in OTL.
 
Hmmm. I suppose that you mean, that the brandenburgian Hohenzollern first got Ducal Prussia, thanks to the idiocy of polish kings, but later still something happens and Ducal Prussia becomes Polish even in linguistic, demographic, or political sense.

I can think about two things.

That Frederic I, this guy who was the first King in Prussia, does a move like Augustus of Saxony, and becomes the king of Poland. But this union is more stable, and in further generations lead to integration of Prussia/Brandenburg with Poland. And as a typical think in "pars pro toto" this new entity is just called Poland in the world.

Other think is that during the Deluge and after that Poland does better, and smashes treacherous Frederic Wilhelm of Brandenburg, and regains Ducal Prussia and incorporate it to the Crown.

Edit.

After the 2WW Poland gets not only the southern half of Eastern Prussia, but also the northern half, where lies Kaliningrad Region in OTL.

Fredrick the Triggered is born
 
Polish is naturally easier. The Dukes of Brandenburg-Prussia paid homage to the Polish Kings. I'd say the best option POD would be during the George William.

Have his son, Frederick William, die from illness, an accident, in the Thirty Years' War without children, etc. Thus his eldest daughter, Louise Charlotte, would inherit, and she was married to the Duke of Courland. I'm not sure of the succession of the Hohenzollern at this time, but I'm pretty sure George William only had a single brother who died childless. No other Hohenzollern would have a direct claim, as George William's father had married the daughter of the previous Duke of Prussia that was from an unrelated branch of the Hohenzollern. Not sure if Louise Charlotte and her husband would be accepted in German Brandenburg, so maybe that half of the inheritance would go to George William's other daughter, who was married to a Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. With a Prussian-Courland union entirely under the Polish crown, you could see Prussia becoming Polish over the centuries.

The only non-Polish option I can think of would be Sweden, and that is harder. Have Gustav Adolphus of Sweden and his wife, George William's sister, have more luck with children. Have the original Christina not die as a babe, and their stillborn son born healthy. The OTL Christina then doesn't become queen. George William remains Lutheran, and thus he forms a better relationship with his brother-in-law than King Catholic Sigismund III of Poland (who still claimed the Swedish crown that he'd lost to Gustav's father). So Gustav receives Prussian aid during the Polish-Swedish War of between 1626-1629. Sweden emerges victorious in the war, taking Danzig, Frederick William dies in the fighting, and Sweden signs a peace treaty largely OTL except Poland acknowledges Ducal Prussia passing to Gustav's son instead of George's eldest daughter. An Alt-Deluge thus becomes a Polish attempt to regain Prussia, and a devastating Swedish victory cements Ducal Prussia ends up part of Sweden's Baltic Empire and the polish population is ejected and replaced with Swedish settlers. Several centuries under Swedish rule follows.

Definitely a stretch though. The first one is simpler.
 
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