Poll: Netherlands in an 1848 German Empire

Can the Kingdom of the Netherlands be included in the German Empire (1848)?

  • Yes as a member

    Votes: 11 17.7%
  • Yes as the Emperor

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Maybe - it might take external factors changing

    Votes: 19 30.6%
  • Unlikely - Not enough support

    Votes: 25 40.3%
  • Never - "Over my dead body" -Franz Josef und Friedrich Wilhelm IV

    Votes: 16 25.8%

  • Total voters
    62
Just as the title says, is it possible for the German Empire based at Frankfurt to include the Kingdom of the Netherlands within it's borders?

I know that Austria was rejected as head of this Empire due to other nationalities it ruled over, and the Prussian King refused the crown. Is the Kingdom of the Netherlands (or Belgium, but I feel that one is way to big a stretch) a palatable solution to the Parliament?
 
Just as the title says, is it possible for the German Empire based at Frankfurt to include the Kingdom of the Netherlands within it's borders?

I know that Austria was rejected as head of this Empire due to other nationalities it ruled over, and the Prussian King refused the crown. Is the Kingdom of the Netherlands (or Belgium, but I feel that one is way to big a stretch) a palatable solution to the Parliament?
It seems to me that the Netherlands are too different linguistically and culturally from Germany to lead a German Empire, but this is a layman's perspective that might not be 100% accurate.
 
The concept that the Dutch were really just Germans with strange accents began and ended with the Nazis.

It 'began' long before that, and was even true once if you go back far enough. In any case it is certainly possible to include the Netherlands in Germany, but it is rather more difficult to make them actually German, at least without an early PoD or looking at over a century after it. It's easier to simply have the Dutch be a minority within a German majority state, whether by conquest or the product of political necessity (harder); whether they'll be 'happy' as such a minority will depend on other factors.
 
When @Jared Seminal Decades of Darkness pulled it and was pretty pausable if and only if the POD is napoleon and the Netherlands itself must be integrated(with land in rhineland as a bonus) into the german confederation, is possible but pretty unlikely but like always, depend the PoD
 
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