German kingdom formed from the Electorate of Saxony (1806–1918)
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Kingdom of Saxony
Königreich Sachsen(German)
1806–1918
Top: Flag of Saxony (1815-1918)
Bottom: Flag of Saxony (1806-1815)
Coat of arms
Motto: Providentiae Memor "Providence Remember"
Anthem:Gott segne Sachsenland (1815)
Sachsenlied ("Gott sei mit dir mein Sachsenland", 1842)
The Kingdom of Saxony within the German Empire
Status
State of the Confederation of the Rhine (1806–1813)
State of the German Confederation (1815–1866)
State of the North German Confederation (1867–1871)
Federal state of the German Empire (1871–1918)
Capital
Dresden
Common languages
Standard German (written; educated speech) Upper Saxon German (colloquial) Upper Sorbian (in Upper Lusatia)
Religion
Lutheran (state religion),[1] but monarchs were Catholic
Demonym(s)
Saxon
Government
Absolute monarchy (until 1831)
Constitutional monarchy (from 1831)
King
• 1806–1827
Frederick Augustus I (first)
• 1904–1918
Frederick Augustus III (last)
Minister-President
• 1831–1843
Bernhard von Lindenau(first)
• 1918
Rudolf Heinze (last)
Legislature
Landtag (1831–1918)
• Upper Chamber
"First Chamber"
• Lower Chamber
"Second Chamber"
Historical era
Napoleonic Wars / WWI
• Treaty of Poznań: Electorate joined the Confederation of the Rhine
11 December 1806
• Electorate raised to Kingdom
20 December 1806
• Treaties of Tilsit: annexed Cottbus [de]; union with Duchy of Warsaw
9 July 1807
• Occupied by Prussia
1813
• Final Act of the Congress of Vienna
9 June 1815
• Member of the North German Confederation
1866
• State of the German Empire
1 January 1871
• Frederick Augustus III abdicates
13 November 1918
• Free State established
1 November 1920
Currency
Saxon thaler (1806–1857)
Saxon vereinsthaler (1857–1873)
German gold mark (1873–1914)
German Papiermark (1914–1918)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Electorate of Saxony
Weimar Saxony
Province of Saxony
Today part of
Germany Poland
The Kingdom of Saxony (German: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxony. From 1871, it was part of the German Empire. It became a free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War I and the abdication of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Its capital was the city of Dresden, and its modern successor state is the Free State of Saxony.
^Chadwick, Ulinka (2017). The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations. Oxford University Press. p. 106. ISBN 9780199646920.
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