Iron Kingdom : The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (145 page)

Beyme, Karl Friedrich von
346
,
403

Bielefeld
180

Biester, Johann Erich
249
,
252

Binn, Nikolaus
207
–8

Bismarck, Otto von
421
,
433
,
500
,
508
; suppresses factionalism within the government
506
; press policy
509
; appointed Minister-President
517
; character and outlook
518
–23; Schleswig-Holstein crisis, Danish War
526
–32; tactics vis-à-vis parliament
530
–31; and Austria in 1864–66
532
–4; alliance with Italy (1866)
533
; and the victory of 1866
542
,
544
–6; German policy after Königgrätz
547
–50; and Spanish succession crisis
548
–50; annexations in 1870
553
; motives for attacking Catholic organizations
570
–76; hostility to Poles
579
–81; relationship with William I
520
–21,
588
; initiatives in social policy
617
–18

Blaskowitz, Johannes
666

Blücher, Gebhardt Leberecht von
350
,
354
,
366
,
371
,
372
,
373

Böckenberg
167

Bodelschwingh, Ernst von
472

Bonaparte
see
Napoleon

Borcke, Johann von
296
–8,
307

Boyen, Hermann von
325
,
386
,
403
,
440

Brandenburg, Count Friedrich Wilhelm von
481

Brandenburg as province, later federal
Land
682
–8

Brandenburg-Prussia: geography
1
–4; agriculture in
3
–4,
162
–3; immigration to
3
–4,
36
,
92
,
122
,
123
,
140
–44,
175
,
212
; political status of
5
; hereditary unity of
5
–6; geopolitical predicament of
26
–7,
44
,
48
–53; foreign policy
48
–53; relations with Habsburg Monarchy
44
,
50
,
53
,
65
,
70
; attitudes to Poland
233

Brandenburg, City of
30
,
31
,
145
–7

Brass, August
454

Braun, Otto
631
,
633
,
641
,
642
,
643
,
645
,
646
,
647
,
651
–2,
654

Breithaupt, Joachim Justus
136

Breslau
363
–364,
452
,
454

Breslau, Treaty of
194
–5,
221

Breton, William
79
,
97

Britain
197
,
198
–9; as ally of Prussia in Seven Years War
200
; as factor in Prussian policy vis-à-vis Napoleon
301
–2; as ally against Napoleon
367
,
369
; policy regarding dissolution of Prussia in 1945–47
675

Brüning, Heinrich
641
–2,
643
,
644
,
648
,
650

Brunswick-Lüneburg, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of
288
,
298

Brunswick Manifesto
288

Bülow, Bernhard von
583
,
606

Bülow, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von
369
,
370
,
371

Bunsen, Carl Josias
438

Burg, Meno
425

Callenberg, Johann Heinrich
135

Calvinism
14
–15,
21
,
22
,
28
,
40
,
254
; as religion of the Brandenburg administration
61
–2,
67
,
115
–24; Calvinists as refugees
140
–41

Camphausen, Ludolf
477
,
478
,
479

Caprivi, Leo von
554
,
561
,
581
,
618

Carsted, Samuel Benedikt
99

Catherine II, Tsaritsa of Russia
205

Catholics: toleration of
122
–3,
241
,
252
; in West Prussia
236
–7; religious revival
419
–20; conflict over interdenominational marriages
420
–21,
430
; folk religion
421
–3; and Hegelianism
433
–4; anti-Prussian activism in the south
547
; assault on Catholic organizations after 1870
568
–76; response to unification
569
–70; links to minority ethnicities
569
–70; failure of the ‘Kulturkampf’
572
–5; in Polish areas
579
–80

Cavour, Camillo di
511

censorship
253
,
256
–7,
269
,
271
–273,
463
–4,
506
–7,
509

Centre Party
575
,
617
,
630
,
631
,
633
–4

Charles VI, Emperor
142
,
190
,
193

Charles X of Sweden
44

Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria, sometime Emperor
194
,
196

Charles Emmanuel, Prince
102

Charlotte, Princess of Prussia, later Alexandra Fedrovna of Russia
398
,
494

Charlottenburg
72

Chodowiecki, Daniel
229
,
262

Chotusitz, Battle of
195

Christian VIII of Denmark
491

Christian IX of Denmark
523
,
531

Churchill, Winston xix,
673

Christian William, Margrave
25

Clausewitz, Karl von
325
,
326
,
327
,
351
,
358
,
372
,
674
,
686

Cocceji, Samuel von
164
,
253

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
86
,
90

Cologne
295
,
421
,
437
,
476
,
482
,
490
,
573

Communists
622
,
624
–5,
626
–7,
641
,
642
,
643

Conservatives
402
–6,
407
,
444
–5,
456
–7,
461
–2,
478
,
483
–4,
503
,
560
–62,
614
–15;
635
–6

Cranach, Lucas
8
,
117

Crimean War (1854–56)
510

Customs Union of 1834
391
–4

Dahlmann, Friedrich Christoph
490
,
492

Dahrendorf, Ralf
672

Danzig
289

Darget, Claude E.
188

Dawson, William Harbutt
671

Denmark
21
–2,
30

Derfflinger, Georg
45

Diestel, Heinrich
423

Diets (
see also
Parliaments): Provincial
404
–5,
408
–12,
439
; United of 1847
458
–62, Second United of 1848
478
; Confederal in Frankfurt
534

Disraeli, Benjamin
552

Dohm, Christian Wilhelm
265
,
331
,
336
,
338
,
424
,
584

Domhardt, Johann Friedrich
236

Dorothea of Holstein
102

Dresden, Peace of (1745)
194

Dreyse needle-gun
537
–9

Droste-Vischering, Clemens August Count
420
–21

Droysen, Johann Gustav
492
,
500

dualism between Austria and Prussia
216
,
288
,
292
–3; in the German Confederation
391
–8; in 1848–50
493
–4,
496
–9; in 1859–66
525
–6,
532
–3; comes to an end in 1866
545
–6,
552
–3

Ducal Prussia (later East Prussia)
10
–14,
22
,
49
,
52
,
280
; Brandenburg acquires sovereignty over
53
–4; Estates in, as opponents of Elector’s policy
53
–60,
65
; crisis of 1709–10
86
–7; nobility of
157
; in Seven Years War
210
; strategic significance of
244
–5; political complexion
408
–10,
428
; after 1945
677
–8

Duhan de Jandun, Jacques-Egide
104
,
189

Duppel, Battle of (1866)
528
–9

Düsseldorf
462
,
482
,
485
,
591
,
601

Düsselthal
413
–14

Dutch Republic
101
; as alliance partner
15
,
51
–2; as model for Brandenburg policy
40
–41,
43
; economic significance for western provinces
180
; William II’s flight to Holland in November 1918
613
–14

East Prussia
see
Ducal Prussia

Ebel, Johann Wilhelm
423

Ebert, Friedrich
621
,
622
,
623
,
625
,
653
–4

Edelmann, Johann Christian
254
–5

Eden, Anthony
673

Ehrhardt, Hermann
628
–9

Eichel, August Friedrich
245

Eichhorn, Emil
625
–6

Eichhorn, Johann Albrecht Friedrich von
396
,
439
–40

Elbe river
2
,
93

Elisabeth, Tsaritsa of Russia
197
,
199
,
204
,
245
,
662

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern, Queen of Prussia
109
–10,
111
,
188
–9,
193

Emmerich
210

Engel, Andreas
115
–16