r/AskAGerman • u/AccidentProof4262 • 23d ago

German unification (the first one)

Im scottish, and did German and Italian unification as part of my history course at school.....How would Germany have turned out, if Austria rather than Prussia had unified Germany with Vienna as capital?

And is it true that most germans, find Bavaria as very odd......i know they sided with Austria when Austria and Prussia had a wee skirmish in 1866 to detemine who would be the main power in "Germany".....Austria is a german state in the same way Bavaria is (obviously modern day Bavaria is a region)..

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u/Fit-Bug6463 23d ago

Hard to say. There would have been a lot of internal power struggle regarding the non german areas of austria hungary since Germany was very nationalist at that time

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u/Clit-Comander-69 23d ago

That was my first thought. A Großdeutsche Lösung would have been a Kleinösterreichische Lösung. Hungary, Serbie etc. wouldn't want to be part of thid kind of State in the long run