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Frederick William became king of Prussia on the death of his father in 1840. Through a personal union , he was also the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel (1840–1857), which at the same time was a canton in the Swiss Confederation and the only one that was a principality.
The office of Minister-President (German: Ministerpräsident), or Prime Minister, of Prussia existed from 1848, when it was formed by King Frederick William IV during the 1848–49 Revolution, until the abolition of Prussia in 1947 by the Allied Control Council.
The Arnim-Boitzenburg Cabinet formed the Prussian State Ministry appointed by King Frederick William IV from 18 to 29 March 1848. The office of Prussian Prime Minister was newly created. The office of Prussian Prime Minister was newly created.
On 5 December, after his government, especially Interior Minister Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, had significantly revised the previous drafts, King Frederick William IV unilaterally imposed a constitution that, to the surprise of the population, adopted many liberal positions and closely followed the Waldeck Charter. [9]
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 ...
Frederick William's reforms left his son Frederick with the most formidable army in Europe, which Frederick used to increase Prussia's power. Although a highly effective ruler, Frederick William had a perpetually short temper which sometimes drove him to physically attack servants (or even his own children) with a cane at the slightest ...
Frederick William III of Prussia (1770–1840), King of Prussia; Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795–1861), King of Prussia; Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819–1904) Frederick III, German Emperor (1831–1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia. He was known as Frederick William when he was Crown Prince. Prince ...
Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald (1 September 1795 – 15 January 1866) was a German official who served as Prime Minister of Prussia during the Revolution of 1848. Later, during the ministry of Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern , he led the government in all but name.