Significant players in the unification of Germany besides Prussia, Austria, and Bavaria?

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So if that happened would the language of this alt-Germany be more Plautdietsch/Saxon/Franconian based instead of Hochdeutsch as IOTL?
Plattdeutsch: Quite the opposite if the North is smaller.
Others: OTL Standard German is the Hannover dialect, which would be inside with a POD before 1866. The only difference may be that the attitude that any educated person should speak standard German is less common in the south.
 
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Depends on far back you go. My Chaos TL has a PoD in 1200. Originally I had thought about making Nassau the big player, expanding over Westphalia (hence, the important Ruhr area)... but things turned out differently.
 
What if we consider Prussia and Austria as being seen separately from Germany? Possibly some weak Bonaparte can let the Confederation of the Rhine consolidate. Would need to be a rather stupid Bonaparte, though. Even then, it would almost certainly not include getting back much, if any, land from the French. Saw that in some timelines on here. Even in this case though, I doubt they would totally unify, as you can't tell the Kings of Saxony, Wurtenburg, Westphalia, and Bavaria they are getting slight demotions, so that there is not a second emperor around. Again, all quite far fetched. I suppose Frankfurt might be a major player in some scenarios of unification, even if merely as a hosting ground who might be able to pull in some of the cities and smaller states to join together before wiped meditization them all away.
 
What if we consider Prussia and Austria as being seen separately from Germany? Possibly some weak Bonaparte can let the Confederation of the Rhine consolidate. Would need to be a rather stupid Bonaparte, though. Even then, it would almost certainly not include getting back much, if any, land from the French. Saw that in some timelines on here. Even in this case though, I doubt they would totally unify, as you can't tell the Kings of Saxony, Wurtenburg, Westphalia, and Bavaria they are getting slight demotions, so that there is not a second emperor around. Again, all quite far fetched. I suppose Frankfurt might be a major player in some scenarios of unification, even if merely as a hosting ground who might be able to pull in some of the cities and smaller states to join together before wiped meditization them all away.
An Austrian Prussian war without other German States? The mind boggles over the possible outcome.....
Or would Prussia look to the North and East to expand?
 
An Austrian Prussian war without other German States? The mind boggles over the possible outcome.....
Or would Prussia look to the North and East to expand?
It depends partially on if the Confederation of the Rhine truly was unified. I expect that whether it was, or was a Confederation of sorts, it would be a bit on Austria's side. The Germans and Austrians wouldn't come to blows in the old Danish duchies if neither of them hold them. I expect that if they did try and succeed to get independents, they would go to the Rheinbund, which I imaging would be called the German Confederation or Frankfurt Union or something. The Erfurt Union probably would be a miss, as that was generally pro-Prussian. Though at least then Electoral Hesse would still be around. Anyways, I can see the Prussians trying to expand into Saxony, since the Russians would be blocking them to the east and Saxony had plenty of men, money, and material that would be excellent for preparing for further expansion.
 
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