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The Erfurt Union
Erfurter Union
1849–1850
Proposed reichskriegsflagge of the Erfurt Union.
March/April 1850: states that had MPs elected in the Erfurt Parliament (yellow), states part of the Four Kings Alliance (Dark red)
History
• Established
1849
• Disestablished
1850
The Erfurt Union (German: Erfurter Union) was a short-lived union of German states under a federation, proposed by the Kingdom of Prussia at Erfurt, for which the Erfurt Union Parliament (Erfurter Unionsparlament), officially lasting from March 20 to April 29, 1850, was opened at the former Augustinian monastery in Erfurt.[1][2] The union never came into effect, and was seriously undermined in the Punctation of Olmütz (November 29, 1850; also called the Humiliation at Olmütz) under immense pressure from the Austrian Empire.
^Blackbourn, David (1997) The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918, Oxford: Oxford University Press
^Gunter Mai, [2000] Die Erfurter Union und das Erfurter Unionsparlament 1850. Köln: Böhlau
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dem Entwurf der Verfassung des Deutschen Reichs. In: Thüringer Landtag Erfurt (ed.): 150 Jahre Erfurter Unionsparlament (1850–2000) (= Schriften zur Geschichte...
of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Württemberg, did not participate in the ErfurtUnion from the outset, Frederick William IV began to lose interest in the project...
establishment of the ErfurtUnion—a federation of German states, excluding Austria—by the free agreement of the German princes. This limited union under Prussia...
their aim of forming a united German homeland. The Prussians proposed an ErfurtUnion of the German states, but this effort was torpedoed by the Austrians...
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absolutist terms, initially through a project that was later called the 'ErfurtUnion'. Austria was not invited to become part of this version of Lesser Germany...
of the Emperor. Legally, the Hohenzollerns ruled Brandenburg in personal union with their Prussian kingdom, but in practice they treated their domains...
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states and transformed itself into the German Empire. At the time of the ErfurtUnion in 1849/1850 it already looked like the Kingdom of Prussia could only...
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[is] abolished"). These lines were deleted in the constitution for the ErfurtUnion of 1849/1850. Historian Christopher Clark noted that the death penalty...
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withdrawal, of which he speedily availed himself. In the crisis of the ErfurtUnion, Saxony was on the side of Austria, and he supported the restoration...
unsuccessfully to unite Germany in his own authority. Under the terms of the ErfurtUnion, which he proposed, the Imperial Sovereign was first and foremost the...
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under which the former agreed to the dissolution of the Prussian-led ErfurtUnion and the revival of the German Confederation under Austrian leadership...
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