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  • Enno E. Kraehe (1921–2008)

  • Robert D. Billinger, Jr
  • Journal:
    Central European History / Volume 42 / Issue 2 / June 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 May 2009, pp. 301-305
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    June 2009
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  • Enno Edward Kraehe, William M. Corcoran Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia, died at the University of Virginia Medical Center on Thursday, December 4, 2008, five days before his eighty-seventh birthday. He was the leading American scholar on the Congress of Vienna and of its most important and colorful participant, Prince Clemens von Metternich.

  • The War Scare of 1831 and Prussian—South German Plans for the End of Austrian Dominance in Germany

  • Robert D. Billinger, Jr
  • Journal:
    Central European History / Volume 9 / Issue 3 / September 1976
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    16 December 2008, pp. 203-219
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    September 1976

  • The plan of the Deutschtümmler has been shattered…,” Metternich wrote exultantly to a subordinate in Berlin in November of 1831. Despite the advice of his foreign minister, Count Christian von Bernstorff, King Frederick William of Prussia had just agreed that any Prussian-South German military agreement had to be preceded by a preliminary political understanding between Austria and Prussia. Metternich was so relieved by this turn of events because he had been sure that current Prussian-South German military discussions were leading, not to plans for the defense of Germany in the face of the threatening French revolutionary government, but to the reorganization of the German Confederation along constitutional lines—under the aegis of Prussia. From Metternich's perspective such a change of politics and political leadership in Germany would only cause dissension among the German governments and benefit only their common enemy— “the all-devouring revolution.”