Peace of Berlin (1742)

The Peace of Berlin was a peace treaty between Prussia and Austria signed in Berlin on July 28, 1742 . The peace treaty ended the First Silesian War . The agreements reached in the preliminary peace in Breslau were thus definitely confirmed.

The part of Silesia that remained with Austria after the First Silesian War

Austria had to cede Lower and Upper Silesia to the Oppa and the previously Bohemian County of Glatz to Prussia. The Duchy of Teschen, on the other side of the Oppa, and the greater part of the Duchies of Troppau and Jägerndorf remained with Austria. Prussia undertook to leave the alliance against Austria and assumed the Austrian debt in Silesia in the amount of 1.7 million guilders to Great Britain . The peace was guaranteed by King George II of Great Britain.

With the incorporation of Silesia, the Prussian state enlarged its territory by a third. The population and financial income grew by the same percentage. With the conquest, Prussia moved into the first row of the great European powers and at the same time became a rival of the Habsburg Empire in Germany. This dualism was to last until the German War in 1866.

Bitterness prevailed in France and deep disappointment among the helpless and homeless Emperor Charles VII over the Prussian King Friedrich II. , Because he left the coalition for the second time. The peace only lasted until August 1744, when Frederick opened the Second Silesian War with the invasion of Bohemia .