Berlin Treaty (1728)

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The Berlin Treaty is a secret treaty between King Friedrich Wilhelm I and Emperor Karl VI. in which Prussia completely gave up anti- Austrian politics.

The contract was signed on December 23, 1728.

The treaty of 1728 renewed the guarantee for the pragmatic sanction already expressed in the Wusterhausen treaty of 1726 , whereas the emperor recognized the Prussian claims to the Duchy of Berg .

But already in August 1728 the emperor had guaranteed the acquisition of Jülich and Berg to the Count Palatine von Sulzbach in a contract . In 1738 the Emperor, along with England , France and Holland , threatened King Friedrich Wilhelm I with demanding that Berg be renounced. In 1739 he even went so far as to enter into a treaty with France through which the mountain was awarded to Sulzbacher.

This repeated breach of contract by the Austrian emperor released Prussia from the guarantee of pragmatic sanctions and gave the Prussian king Frederick the Great , after the death of Charles VI. to demand a part of Silesia as a replacement for the mountain withheld from him .

literature

  • Heinz Duchhardt : Balance of Power and Pentarchy. International Relations 1700–1785. Schöningh, Paderborn 1997 (= Handbook of the History of International Relations. Volume 4), ISBN 3-506-73724-4 . P. 276 f.