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Growth/Failure of German Nationalism 1815 – 1850
Timeline of Events
1815 – End of the Napoleonic Wars and creation of the Deutscher Bund (German Confederation)
1817 – Wartburg Festival
1818 – Formation of the Zollverein
1819 – Carlsbad Decrees
1848 – Revolutions in Europe (including Austria and Prussia)
1848/9 – Frankfurt Parliament
1849 – Erfurt Union (League of the Three Kings)
1850 – Treaty of Olmutz
Essay Plans
There are three basic types of essay question on this topic:-
A. Why did nationalism grow/What were the reasons for the growth of nationalism?
DO THE ISOLATED FACTOR FIRST.
WEIGH UP THE FACTORS AS YOU GO ALONG – DON’T WAIT TILL THE CONLUSION TO COMPARE THE FACTORS TO EACH OTHER IN TERMS OF THEIR IMPORTANCE.
1. Intro – SEAF (start date – 1815, end of Napoleonic war/creation of Deutscher Bund, end date – 1850, still no united German state, was a growth of nationalism due to several factors ……..)
2. Impact of French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars 400 – 39 states, more on end of Napoleonic wars and creation of Bund How Napoleon triggered nationalism in German states, how Bund pleased but frustrated nationalists.
3. Culture Language, race -‘volk’, music, art, literature, history (Romans). Burschenschaften, Wartburg Festival 1817, Carlsbad Decrees ‘nipped this nationalism in the bud’, Hambach Festival 1830 ‘Talkers and dreamers with no real plan of action’ –McKichan? Or do all revolutions need thinkers to ‘sow the seeds’?
4. Economy
Prussian economy Zollverein – how it united the German states economically, how it led to other things that contributed to German states moving together e.g. railways, urbanisation.
Was the Zollverein more than an economic union? Stiles Vs AJP Taylor
Growth/Failure of German Nationalism 1815 – 1850
Timeline of Events
1815 – End of the Napoleonic Wars and creation of the Deutscher Bund (German Confederation)
1817 – Wartburg Festival
1818 –
Timeline of Events
1815 – End of the Napoleonic Wars and creation of the Deutscher Bund (German Confederation)
1817 – Wartburg Festival
1818 – Formation of the Zollverein
1819 – Carlsbad Decrees
1848 – Revolutions in Europe (including Austria and Prussia)
1848/9 – Frankfurt Parliament
1849 – Erfurt Union (League of the Three Kings)
1850 – Treaty of Olmutz
Essay Plans
There are three basic types of essay question on this topic:-
A. Why did nationalism grow/What were the reasons for the growth of nationalism?
DO THE ISOLATED FACTOR FIRST.
WEIGH UP THE FACTORS AS YOU GO ALONG – DON’T WAIT TILL THE CONLUSION TO COMPARE THE FACTORS TO EACH OTHER IN TERMS OF THEIR IMPORTANCE.
1. Intro – SEAF (start date – 1815, end of Napoleonic war/creation of Deutscher Bund, end date – 1850, still no united German state, was a growth of nationalism due to several factors ……..)
2. Impact of French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars 400 – 39 states, more on end of Napoleonic wars and creation of Bund How Napoleon triggered nationalism in German states, how Bund pleased but frustrated nationalists.
3. Culture Language, race -‘volk’, music, art, literature, history (Romans). Burschenschaften, Wartburg Festival 1817, Carlsbad Decrees ‘nipped this nationalism in the bud’, Hambach Festival 1830 ‘Talkers and dreamers with no real plan of action’ –McKichan? Or do all revolutions need thinkers to ‘sow the seeds’?
4. Economy
Prussian economy Zollverein – how it united the German states economically, how it led to other things that contributed to German states moving together e.g. railways, urbanisation.
Was the Zollverein more than an economic union? Stiles Vs AJP Taylor
Growth/Failure of German Nationalism 1815 – 1850
Timeline of Events
1815 – End of the Napoleonic Wars and creation of the Deutscher Bund (German Confederation)
1817 – Wartburg Festival
1818 –