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A non-sovereign, polycentric and republican organization of the German lands was regarded as a natural and necessary component in a stable Europe free from war and revolutions. This article analyses the origins, institutions and policies of the German Confederation, with particular regard to how the means of organized violence were organized.
- Michael Jonas
1 de ene. de 2002 · This paper reconsiders German unification during the period 1815-1871. First, it makes explicit the comparison between the German Empire and the European Union.
Introduction. In 1815 the remains of the Holy Roman Empire, embarrassed by Napoleon’s conquest of their land, organized into the German Confederation. Thirty-nine independent countries were struggling to restore themselves after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo and chart their future.
The German Confederation was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved in 1806 in reaction to the Napoleonic Wars.
This chapter on the German Confederation examines the largest cornerstone of the new European security system, designed to stabilise the European centre and provide an institutional structure for the cooperation of the thirty-eight remaining German states in relation to the other powers.
The general agreement between the German states on the founding of the German Confederation was first signed by thirty-five individual states and four free cities (Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, and Frankfurt) on June 8, 1815, during the Congress of Vienna.
the German problem, illustrates the na- ture and complexity of federal politics, points up the virtues and limitations of. the German Confederation as an institu- tion of government and provides a cor- rective for certain traditional but mis- leading historical judgments, especially.
