Two Dual-Monarchies fight for Germany

oberdada

Gone Fishin'
OK, here is the basic idea:
At the Vienna Congress in 1815 Prussia gets Poland, meaning, the King of Prussia also becomes King of Poland (the way the Czar became in OTL).
THis make the German unification more difficult, since without Austria and there isn't hardly enough to form a German State.

Any ideas?
Is this idea worth looking further into?
 

Thande

Donor
Question: why? I think the Prussians cared more about getting the Rhineland (and all of Saxony if they'd have had their way) rather than trying to get Poland back off the Russians.
 
Well, huge parts of Poland, including Waszaw, actually were prussian until Napoleon took it away from them in 1807.

Prussia would just get back what had belonged to them anyway.

But I don't see why a prussian king would feel the urge to declare himself king of Poland.

The Austrian emperor did become king of hungary to please the powerful hungarian minority in A-H.

A Prussian king who owns Poland would rather force them to adapt than to declare himself their king.
 

oberdada

Gone Fishin'
To be honest I should have put this in the ASB forum, I am not so much interested in the cause, but in the result.
 
Well the Czar didn't convert to catholicism in OTL, so I don't think this is a problem.

I was thinking more about how the elector of Saxony in the 18th century had to convert, but I guess the situation would probably be different here....
 
Very Small Germany.

The thing is, if Prussia gets Poland instead of the Rheinland (it is not likely they would get both) then the Mittelstaaten and Kleinstaaten would be liky to band together against both.

HTG
 
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