"Germany from 1871 to the Present"
Dr. Marcel Jesenský
Learning in Retirement, Carleton University
1 March - 5 April 2017
Germany and the Germans
(pre-1871)
The beginnings
Mediaeval Germany
Absolutism
Industrialization
Mainz – Cologne – Trier – Bohemia – Saxony – Palatine of the Rhine – Brandenburg
History
800, Charlemagne (Karl der Große)
842, Oaths of Strasbourg (die Straßburger Eide)
diutisk / deutsch
843
feudalism
The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
Otto I. (2 February 962)
Heiliges römisches Reich deutscher Nation
Rome
States, Cities (die Hanse), Gutenberg
The Habsburgs
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Rome (Germany)
Princes, Cities, Peasants
Obedience (Obrigkeit)
High German (Hochdeutsch)
Protestantism (cujus regio, ejus religio)
1618-1648 (der Dreißigjährige Krieg)
Sweden, France, England (Germany)
Princes, Cities
The Reich
1648, Peace of Wesphalia (Westfälischer Friede)
Austria, Prussia
German dualism
the Habsburgs
the Hohenzollerns
The Great Elector (Kurfürst) of Brandenburg
Prussia
Frederick William I (Friedrich Wilhelm I.) (1640-88)
Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick III (1688-1713)
1701, Frederick I, King in Prussia
Frederick-William I (1713-1740)
Frederick II the Great (1740-88) Friedrich der Große
Enlightened Despot, Silesia, West Prussia,
Enlightened Absolutism
the Aufklärung
Modern state, Law, Civil Service
Nobility, Clergy, Peasants
Army
Education
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
Joy, horror and resistance
6 August 1806
the Confederation of the Rhine (Rheinbund)
The Wars of Liberation (Leipzig, 1813)
The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815
The ‘pre-March,’ 1848 and the Unification
Vormärz : Customs Union (Zollverein), 1834
1848-49 : ‘small Germany’ (Kleindeutschland)
Otto von Bismarck, 1862
the N. German Confederation, 1866
the Empire (Reich), 18 Jan 1871