Ways to make Poland-Prussia real

I really love Glen's scenario with Prussia-Poland. (Greetings Glen!) So I want to ask you, what PODs are good to make such union real? I was thinking about such scenario: second partion of Poland was also the last, Austria, like in OTL missed it, so Prussia expanded at cost of Poland more than in OTL, taking lands of OTL Austrian third partition. Napoleonic wars are like OTL, with one exception-Nappy is killed during his attempt to escape Elbe, in alternate Congress of Vienna Brits demanded borders of polish partitions from pre-napoleonic era (Austria and Talleyrand's France supported them), Tsar is afraid that Austro-anglo-french coalition would crush him. He resigned from his plans to restore polish kingdom. So Prussian Kingdom get trerritories of all OTL Congress Kingdom. What do you thing? Are there better ways to make in Central Europe country with braver soliders, better beer and more beautiful girls:))
 
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Going back a bit further, you could have a POD with the Teutonic Knights somehow taking over Poland, either through a coup of some sort in the mid-early-13th Century or through conquest later on (you have about fifty conflicts between the two to choose from). This would eventually become a similar state, with a mixed German and Slavic population. Alternatively, you could twist this in the opposite direction and have Poland seize Prussia from the Teutonic Order, possibly sparking conflict with the HRE.

Not sure if that's what you're looking for, though; I might be just trying to take a nascent Napoleonic-era idea and twist it to my own medieval tastes. :rolleyes:
 
Have the Hohenzollerns be elected Kings of Poland-Lithuania, and then have them make the monarchy there hereditary. They would probably have a couple of generations to achieve this, assuming that they stayed in favor with enough of the major magnates for long enough.

The main problem with this is a religious one. Prussia is strongly Lutheran, Poland just as strongly Catholic. Either you remove Catholicism as a requirement for being King of Poland (possibly the Swedes impose it as a result of one of their wars?), or you make Prussia Catholic. Making the Hohenzollerns Catholic is probably easiest. The Wettins, in Saxony, managed to rule over a mostly Lutheran state while remaining Catholic, so it's possible for the Hohenzollerns to do the same.
 
Have the Hohenzollerns be elected Kings of Poland-Lithuania, and then have them make the monarchy there hereditary. They would probably have a couple of generations to achieve this, assuming that they stayed in favor with enough of the major magnates for long enough.

The main problem with this is a religious one. Prussia is strongly Lutheran, Poland just as strongly Catholic. Either you remove Catholicism as a requirement for being King of Poland (possibly the Swedes impose it as a result of one of their wars?), or you make Prussia Catholic. Making the Hohenzollerns Catholic is probably easiest. The Wettins, in Saxony, managed to rule over a mostly Lutheran state while remaining Catholic, so it's possible for the Hohenzollerns to do the same.

Much how the Wettins had a different faith from their territories, technically, the Hohenzollerns did too. This guy converted to Calvinism and essentially ruled a bi-confessional state, as in Brandenburg one could be Lutheran or Calvinist, mostly brought about because he had to back down from his attempts to impose the Calvinist Church on his subjects. He also equalized the rights of Catholics and Protestants in Prussia, although this was under pressure from the King of Poland. So we could easily see the Hohenzollerns adopt Catholicism or something like that in lieu of Calvinism.
 
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