Return of the Holy Roman Empire!

whitecrow

Banned
20th century has seen the creation of a number of nations that have been “dead” as independent states for centuries: Poland, Baltic States, various Balkan nations, etc.

Thus, the challenge is to add one more nation to the roster of revived states of the 20th century: the Holy Roman Empire!
 
In the immortal words of Big Macintosh:

"Nope."

The reason why the Poles, Baltics and Balkans got their own independent states was that they had a shared ethnicity, culture, and language. The HRE was a collection of reactionary petty states ruled by local princes by the 19th century. Given that liberalism was on the rise during the 19th century, nothing short of ASBs could lead to a revival of the Holy Roman Empire in the 20th.
 

whitecrow

Banned
In the immortal words of Big Macintosh:

"Nope."

The reason why the Poles, Baltics and Balkans got their own independent states was that they had a shared ethnicity, culture, and language. The HRE was a collection of reactionary petty states ruled by local princes by the 19th century. Given that liberalism was on the rise during the 19th century, nothing short of ASBs could lead to a revival of the Holy Roman Empire in the 20th.

Defeatist nonsense! Now go forth and find a way to recreate the Holy Roman Empire!
 
Easy Germany wins WWI, Österreich-Magyar collapses and Germany incorporates the Austrian half of the Empire and Kaiser Wilhelm proclaims the Holy Roman Empire has returned.
 

MSZ

Banned
Is it suppose to be any Holy Roman Emperor, like with anybody anywhere declaring himself and his country to be one, or the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation? I could imagine a Greece-wank where it manages to conquer Constantinopole and the King declares himself a Roman Emperor.

As for the German version - a much stronger communist revolution which is put down by a coalition of Christian-Monarchists, who in turn use the pro-catholic, pro-monarchist sentiment to get legitimicy.
 
After WWI the Allies decide to break up Germany into dozens of pieces. They find cast off German royalty to take the various thrones and appoint one of them who they think is an idiot as the Holy Roman Emperor. He is much smarter than he appears and is able to unite Germany under his banner over the 20-30 years or so. With that you have the reborn Holy Roman Empire.
 
you could have franz ferdinand survive (where mabye by not marrying sophie and therefore no tension about his ascension due to children) and have his "united states of greater austria" play out, but with a more holy roman empire style federation, where the territories still get autonomy, but have the habsburg at the head again with a phoney electoral process....only way i see it ever happebning, and i only really see it happening under habsburg territorial rule, the rest of europe wouldnt join in...mabye a few german cities would want imperial status back, but largly, would just be austria-hungary
 
Top