Extrusion
The dominant influence of Prussia in the German Empire is called Verpreußung (of the Reich) , with a first climax in the imperial era .
The constituent state of Prussia was a hegemonic power in the German federal state in terms of its political voting weight, the personal interdependence of the political offices, the area and the number of inhabitants .
The Prussian shone in the aftermath of to the other German states. During the reign of Wilhelm II , the Prussian character increasingly narrowed to militarism ( Wilhelminism ). In southern Germany, and particularly in Alsace-Lorraine , which was annexed in 1871 , the Prussian dominance met with little approval, which was openly revealed, for example, in 1902 with the reaction to the Swinemünde dispatch and in 1913 in the Zabern affair . Some political parties also criticized the Prussianization of Germany, as the SPD politician August Bebel remarked , that the small German solution was a Great Prussian one .
In the first half of the 20th century in particular, the external perception of the role of Prussia in the empire was negative. After the Second World War , the Allied Control Council assumed in Control Council Act No. 46 of 1947 that Prussia had "always been a bearer of militarism and reaction in Germany" and thus relied on a doctrine of the time that was a direct line of development between Wilhelmine and Wilhelmine - Prussian militarism and National Socialism .
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literature
- Werner Frotscher , Bodo Pieroth : Verfassungsgeschichte , 5th edition, Munich 2005, Rn 452 ff.
