The "Grossösterreichische Lösung"

Or when someone invites you to a party and you take your whole squad of friends with you ...

During the times before German unification, there were several propositions about how tu unite Germany :

Kleindeutschland Lösung, what happend OTL, they left out Austria, and only kept German territories

Grossdeutschland Lösung, it was the main plan for quite a while, they were planning to keep czechs in the country, because they had close historical and cultural tides with them, and of course Austria, who would lead the country. The main problem was it meant for Hasburgs to loose all their non German possessions.

Grossösterreichische Lösung, the Hasburg suggestion, who were trying to keep all of their possessions under one crown. Meaning plenty of non germans from slovaks to croats would join the German federation, it was rejected.

BUT what would happen if through a hard and constant lobbying, some guys managed to make this proposal accepted.
 
BUT what would happen if through a hard and constant lobbying, some guys managed to make this proposal accepted.
The issues are the hungarians...but if something happen(a more violent revolution in prussia and the hohenzollenr need austria help to be bail out) and the frankfurt court accept some negotiations in keeping a lot of the nobles privileges in exhange union...maybe throw a bone and make hungarians the favoured/prefered/protected minority in great austria...
 
If this happened you’d have a Holy Roman Empire reborn. My question is could you even call this thing the German Federation?
 
If this happened you’d have a Holy Roman Empire reborn. My question is could you even call this thing the German Federation?
The Germanic Nation(like crotaian and bohemian can be passed as germanic, ditto slovakians) or Germanic Empire.
 
BUT what would happen if through a hard and constant lobbying, some guys managed to make this proposal accepted.
Including the non German parts would include Lombardy and Venetia as well, wouldn't be too much of a stretch to include the Italian Habsburg duchies and Savoy (which gets more thoroughly beaten in an alt 1848) and just calling it the Holy Roman Empire.

edit: maybe they can even nick Charlemagne's crown in a war with France.
 
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