What Factors led to the unification of Germany in 1871?
over Austria who was in many ways still a backward country for example the economy was still based on agriculture and the government was very backwards but so was Prussia in that sense but it had a cover-up with Reichstag giving the man a vote for some sort of powers but basically meaningless. Bismarck without a doubt was a huge factor in the unification of Germany being from an Aristocratic Junker Family he was brought up a conservative and became German prime minister in 1862. He despised liberals and democracy. The time he became prime minister the plan of unification could not pass thanks to the conjunction set up by Austria in the German confederation. Also in his time as prime minister he could only see the unification through war like he said the blood and iron speech. Unification came about after 3 wars that Prussia fought that he new he could win. The first was against Demark who controlled Schleswig and Holstein he released theses states from there control. Also he had a piec
