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History

The new Germany consisted of only thirty-nine separate states.

These thirty-nine sovereign states were banded together into the German Confederation, a loose but allegedly eternal federal organization.

Both Austria and Prussia were members of the Confederation but only for their German lands, that is, lands which had formerly been in the Holy Roman Empire.

Thus Prussian Poland and East Prussia were not in the Confederation nor was the great bulk of the Austrian non- German areas.

On the other hand, several non-German monarchs were members of the Confederation: the king of Great Britain because he was king of Hanover, the king of Denmark as ruler of Holstein, and the king of the Netherlands for Luxemburg.