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Les Hohenzollern : La dynastie qui a fait l'Allemagne (1061–1918) Carlyle, Thomas. A Short Introduction to the House of Hohenzollern (2014) Clark, Christopher. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (2009), standard scholarly history ISBN 978-0-7139-9466-7; Koch, H. W. History of Prussia (1987), short scholarly history
The monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia. The Duchy had evolved out of the Teutonic Order , a Roman Catholic crusader state and theocracy located along the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea .
It included two-thirds of the empire's territory and three-fifths of its population. The imperial crown was a hereditary office of the House of Hohenzollern. Prussia also had a large plurality of seats in the Bundesrat, with 17 votes out of 58 (17 out of 61 after 1911); no other state had more than six votes.
In the spring of 1862, the Army reform escalated the Prussian constitutional conflict with the liberal chamber majority over the state parliament's co-determination in military affairs and fundamentally over the ([parliamentarization] Error: {{Langx}}: transliteration of latn script ) of Prussia, which led to the government's resignation and ...
Prussia formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871. It was de facto dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and de jure by an Allied decree in 1947. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, expanding its size with the ...
This policy allowed Prussia's population to recover very quickly from its considerable losses during Frederick's three wars. [210] Though Frederick was known to be more tolerant of Jews and Roman Catholics than many neighbouring German states, his practical-minded tolerance was not fully unprejudiced. Frederick wrote in his Testament politique:
Following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the various German states gained nominal sovereignty. However, the reunification process that culminated in the creation of the German Empire in 1871, produced a country that was constituted of several principalities and dominated by one of them, the Kingdom of Prussia after it had ultimately ...
Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia; Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893–1917) Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1895–1959) Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia; Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen; Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia (1891–1927) Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1715–1744)