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Saxony has a long history as a duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire (the Electorate of Saxony), and finally as a kingdom (the Kingdom of Saxony).In 1918, after Germany's defeat in World War I, its monarchy was overthrown and a republican form of government was established under the current name.
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 .
The Kingdom of Saxony was the fifth state of the German Empire in area and third in population; in 1905 the average population per square mile was 778.8. Saxony was the most densely peopled state of the empire, and indeed of all Europe; the reason was the very large immigration on account of the development of manufactures.
The history of Saxony-Anhalt began with Old Saxony, which was conquered by Charlemagne in 804 and transformed into the Duchy of Saxony within the Carolingian Empire.Saxony went on to become one of the so-called stem duchies of the German Kingdom and subsequently the Holy Roman Empire which formed out of the eastern partition of the Carolingian Empire.
Saxony became a member state of the Confederation of the Rhine and on 20 December 1806, the Electorate was created a kingdom by the graces of Napoleon. During the Battle of Friedland, a small division of two brigades, two cavalry regiments, and two foot batteries served in the French Reserve Corps under Marshal Jean Lannes. [2]
Preamble. Building on the history of the Margraviate of Meissen, the Saxon state and the Lower Silesian region, supported by traditions of Saxon constitutional history, starting from the painful experiences of National Socialist and Communist tyranny, mindful of their own guilt in the past, guided by the will to serve justice, peace and the preservation of creation, the people of the Free ...
In 1947, Saxony-Anhalt became a state. The East German states, including Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, were abolished in 1952, but they were recreated as part of the reunification of Germany in 1990 (with some slight border changes; in particular territories around Torgau , which were part of Saxony-Anhalt between 1945 and 1952, passed to Saxony ...
Albert II thus became the founder of the Ascanian line of Saxe-Wittenberg. Members of the Welf cadet branch House of Hanover later became prince-electors of the Hanover (as of 1692/1708), kings of Great Britain, Ireland (both 1714), the United Kingdom (1801), and the Hanover (1814).