Continental League

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The continental league was a conceived by Friedrich August von Holstein in 1895/1896, but practically not realized, amalgamation of the influential states of the European continent, especially Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia, France against England.

The attitude of the French and Russian governments during the German-English diplomatic crisis after the publication of the Krüger telegram aroused the hope of an alliance of the states of continental Europe among influential employees of the Foreign Office, especially von Holstein.

The plan for a continental league disregarded the existing economic and political contradictions between the states of the Triple Alliance on the one hand and the states of the French-Russian Alliance (1893) on the other and therefore failed.

The plan, however, characterized efforts to avert the growing threat of Germany's isolation in the mid-1890s.

literature

  • Johannes Bühler: From the Bismarck Empire to a divided Germany . 6th edition. Walter de Gruyter, 1960.