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The German Confederation in 1815
|Head of the Präsidialmacht Austria|
|•||1850–1866||Franz Joseph I|
|•||Constitution adopted||8 June 1815|
|•||German Revolutions||13 March 1848|
|•||Punctation of Olmütz||29 November 1850|
|•||Austro-Prussian War||14 June 1866|
|•||Peace of Prague||23 August 1866|
|•||1815||630,100 km² (243,283 sq mi)|
|Density||46.3 /km² (120 /sq mi)|
|Today part of|
The German Confederation (German: Deutscher Bund) was an association of 39 German states in Central Europe, created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries and to replace the former Holy Roman Empire. Most historians have judged the Confederation to have been weak and ineffective, as well as an obstacle to the creation of a German nation-state. It collapsed due to the rivalry between Prussia and Austria, warfare, the 1848 revolution, and the inability of the multiple members to compromise.
In 1848, revolutions by liberals and nationalists were a failed attempt to establish a unified German state. Talks between the German states failed in 1848, and the Confederation briefly dissolved, but was re-established shortly after, in 1850. It decidedly fell apart only after the Prussian victory in the Seven Weeks' War of 1866.
The dispute between the two dominant member states of the Confederation, Austria and Prussia, over which had the inherent right to rule German lands ended in favour of Prussia after the Seven Weeks' War of 1866. This led to the creation of the North German Confederation under Prussian leadership in 1867. A number of South German states remained independent until they joined the North German Confederation, which was renamed the 'German Empire'.
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