Schulz, Johannes Heinrich 269, 270–71
Schwarzenberg, Count Adam 27, 29, 34, 42, 101, 105
Schwarzenberg, Prince Felix zu 493, 498
Schwarzenberg, Prince Karl Philipp 366, 367, 368, 371
Schwerin, Kurt Christoph von 195
Schwerin, Otto von 53, 58–9, 61–2, 66
Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, Ulrich-Wilhelm Count 675–6
Seckendorff, Count Friedrich Heinrich von, 104–5, 111
Seeckt, Hans von 629, 630
Sessa, Karl Borromäus 266
Seven Years War (1756–63) 158, 198–210; atrocities in 209–10; demographic impact 210
Severing, Carl 632, 634, 641
Siemens, Werner 543
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 4
Silesia: industry 176, 179; invasion of 183, 185–6, 190–98, 210–11, 242; in Seven Years War 200, 210; strategic significance of 216, 244; provincial autonomy 236–7; French conquest of in 1806/07 308; desertions 374; centre of Lutheran separatism 417–19; poverty and social unrest 450–52, 454–5; political mobilization 456, 484
Smith, Adam 327, 330
Social Democrats: 561–2, 567; and anti-militarism 599–600; social policy 617; end of the Prussian monarchy, 613, 619; affinity with Prussian state 620–21, 652; struggle with the extreme left 624–7; leadership of Prussian republican coalition 630–31; support for within Weimar civil service 632–3; in the Weimar Prussian police force 633–4; Brüning’s hostility to Prussia as SPD bastion 642; fragility of SPD control in 1932 643; response to deposition of Prussian government 646–7; reprisals against by ‘cabinet of barons’ 647
Soest 62, 154
Sonderweg, see ‘Special Path’
Soor, Battle of 194
Sophie Charlotte, Queen in Prussia 72, 75, 76
Sophie Dorothea, Queen in Prussia, 105
Spanish Succession, War of the 191, 220
Spandau 25, 35, 87
‘Special Path’, thesis of the: xx, xxii
Speer, Albert 659–60
Spener, Philipp Jakob 124–8, 135
Spisz 231
Staël, Germaine Necker, Madame de 283
Stahl, Friedrich Julius 426, 503
Stanislaw August, King 231, 289
Stapen 173
State, the: consolidation of under Fredrick William I 85–94, 111–14; Frederick II and 239–46; celebration of by Hegel 431–4; as core of a non-particularist Prussian identity 615–18
Stavenow 156, 163, 169–70
Stein, Julius 480
Stein, Karl, Baron vom und zum: activities before 1806 277–8, 302–3, 304, 318, 320–21; critique of ‘cabinet System’ 321–3, 326; constitutional reforms 334, 335, 338; agent of Russia 360, 361; and German national cause 363, 386, 669; municipal reforms 428
Stein, Lorenz 616
Stendal 180
Stepney, George 69
Stettin 50, 312
Stolberg-Wernigerode, Count Anton von 437
Stralsund 50
Strausberg, 31
Striepe, Sebastian 139
Struensee, Johann Friedrich von 251
Struensee, Karl August von 319
Sulzer, Johann Georg 250
Svarez, Karl Gottlieb 251–2
Sweden: as belligerent and alliance partner in Thirty Years War 20, 22–6, 139; extortions and atrocities 31, 34; role in territorial resettlement of 1648 48; as belligerent in Northern War 44–6, 50; in Seven Years War 200, 201, 205–6; ally against Napoleon 365–6
Sybel, Heinrich von 499–500
Tannenberg 608, 658
Tauentzien, Friedrich Bogislaw Emanuel von 347, 349, 354
Tauroggen, Convention of 358–9, 381
taxation 13–14, 28–9, 37, 56–8, 61, 68, 85–6, 90–91, 94, 504, 636
Teltow, 34
Teschen, Treaty of (1779) 217
Thile, Ludwig Gustav von 437, 444
Thirty Years War: impact on Brandenburg politics 19–30, 62, 219–20; economic and demographic impact 30–36; as collective trauma in experience and memory 19, 32–7, 65–6, 124
Thorn 289
Tilsit 308
Tilsit, Peace of (1807) 309, 327, 347, 353
Tobacco Ministry (Tabakskollegium) 79–81
tolerance (see also Catholics): religious 122–4; as a theme in Brandenburg-Prussian foreign policy 139–44; of sects 270
Torgau 388, 422
towns in Brandenburg-Prussia 148–55; as centres of commercial activity 181–2
Treitschke, Heinrich von 283, 412
Tresckow, Henning von 668, 763
Trier 295, 482
Troost, Paul Ludwig 659
Trotha, Lothar von 604–6
Truchsess von Waldburg, Karl Heinrich 90, 94
Tschech, Heinrich Ludwig 448–9, 466
Turkish War (1737–39) 190
Twesten, Karl 517, 544
Uckermark, 2, 3, 22, 35, 45, 92, 151, 154, 165–6
university reforms 331, 332–3,
Ursinus, Erhard 177–8, 181
Valentin, Veit 168
Valmy, Battle of (1792) 288–9
Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August 375, 463–4, 470–71, 472
Veblen, Thorstein 671–2
Versailles, First Treaty of (1 May 1756) 198
Versailles, Second Treaty of (1 May 1757) 200
Versailles, Third Treaty of (March 1759) 201
Versailles Treaty of 1919: impact on Prussia 620, 629, 756
Vincent, Philip 32
Vincke, Friedrich Ludwig von 346, 349
Virchow, Rudolf 571
Voigt, Friedrich Wilhelm 596–9
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de xxv, 187
Wagner, Adolph 616–17
Waldeck, Benedikt 480
Waldeck, George Frederick von 61
Wars of Liberation: 365–372; patriotic enthusiasm 374–5; in public memory 378–85, 440, 489; and Theodor Fontane 681–2
Wars of Unification: Danish War of 1864 525–30; Austrian War of 1866 535–42; FrenchWar of 1870–71 550–52
Warsaw, Battle of 44, 47, 49
Waterloo, Battle of (1815): 372–3; in memory 380
Wednesday Club (Mittwochsgesellschaft) 251–2, 272
Wehlau, Peace of 50, 58
Wehler, Hans-Ulrich xxii
Weimar Republic: place of Prussia in 621–2; role of army in 622–3; military–civil relations 628–30; political attitude of the Prussian judiciary 631–2, 634; Prussian civil service 632–3, 634
Weiss, Bernhard 645
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of 372, 373
Wels, Otto 624
Wends 2, 428
Wesel 244
Westminster, Convention of (1756) 198
Westphalen, Ferdinand von 507, 508
Westphalia, Peace of 48–9, 115, 141; Kingdom of, under French occupation 348, 349; in 1848 476, 485
West Prussia (see also Royal Prussia) 231–9, 374
Wette, Wilhelm de 400
Whitworth, Charles 79
Wilhelmine, Princess of Prussia, 105
William I, King, later Emperor: 76, 84, 437, 471, 475, 503–4, 511; importance of the military for 513–14, 515–16; and German unification 514; constitutional crisis 517; relationship with Bismarck 520–21, 588; on North German Confederation 546; and Spanish succession crisis 548–9; proclaimed Emperor 552; as Emperor and king after 1870 588–589
William II, Emperor: 84; opposes modern dance and painting styles 564–5; sponsors monuments to William I 565–7, 590; efforts to ‘imperialize’ the Prussian monarchy 589–94, 602; in political caricature 593–4; pardons the ‘Captain of Köpenick’ 598; as supreme warlord 604; response to unrest in South-West Africa 604–5; eclipsed by Hindenburg 611; abdication and flight to Holland 612–14; labour protection law 618; impact of abdication on Prussian Protestantism 636; hope for restoration in Third Reich 664
William III of England, 102
Wilson, Woodrow 611–12, 674
Winterfeld, Samuel vo
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Wittenberg, 126, 388–9
Wittgenstein, Prince Wilhelm Ludwig Sayn- 396, 401, 402, 403, 404
Witzleben, Erwin von 668
Wolff, Christian 74, 240, 253, 261
Wolff, Friedrich Wilhelm 454, 457
Wöllner, Johann Christoph 268–71, 272, 418
Wrangel, Count Friedrich Heinrich Ernst von 481, 526, 528
Württemberg 218, 295, 393, 496, 536, 546–547
Wusterhausen 86
Yorck von Wartenburg, Hans David Ludwig Count 358–61, 381, 386, 653, 669–70, 674
Yorck von Wartenburg, Peter Count 667–8
Zedlitz, Karl Abraham Freiherr von 245, 269
Ziel, Alwin xxii
Zieten, Hans-Karl Graf von 372
Zimmermann, Georg 147
Zöllner, Johann Friedrich 249
Zollverein see Customs Union
Zorndorf, Battle of (1758) 203, 204, 208, 225
Zweibrücken, Duke Charles of 217
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