Prussia
Prussia (, ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija, Prūsa'') was a German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. As the Teutonic control over Prussia could not be exercised anymore, the Knights relocated their base from Königsberg to Mergentheim.It formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and ''de jure'' by an Allied decree in 1947. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, expanding its size with the Prussian Army. Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany.
The name ''Prussia'' derives from the Old Prussians; in the 13th century, the Teutonic Knightsan organized Catholic medieval military order of German crusadersconquered the lands inhabited by them. In 1308, the Teutonic Knights conquered the region of Pomerelia with Danzig. Their monastic state was mostly Germanised through immigration from central and western Germany, and, in the south, it was Polonised by settlers from Masovia. The imposed Second Peace of Thorn (1466) split Prussia into the western Royal Prussia, becoming a province of Poland, and the eastern part, called the Duchy of Prussia from 1525, a feudal fief of the Crown of Poland up to 1657. The union of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia in 1618 led to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701.
Prussia entered the ranks of the great powers shortly after becoming a kingdom. It became increasingly large and powerful in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had a major voice in European affairs under the reign of Frederick the Great (1740–1786). At the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), which redrew the map of Europe following Napoleon's defeat, Prussia acquired rich new territories, including the coal-rich Ruhr. The country then grew rapidly in influence economically and politically, and became the core of the North German Confederation in 1867, and then of the German Empire in 1871. The Kingdom of Prussia was now so large and so dominant in the new Germany that and other Prussian élites identified more and more as Germans and less as Prussians.
The Kingdom ended in 1918 along with other German monarchies that were terminated by the German Revolution. In the Weimar Republic, the Free State of Prussia lost nearly all of its legal and political importance following the 1932 coup led by Franz von Papen. Subsequently, it was effectively dismantled into Nazi German ''Gaue'' in 1935. Nevertheless, some Prussian ministries were kept and Hermann Göring remained in his role as Minister President of Prussia until the end of World War II. Former eastern territories of Germany that made up a significant part of Prussia lost the majority of their German population after 1945 as the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union both absorbed these territories and had most of its German inhabitants expelled by 1950. Prussia, deemed "a bearer of militarism and reaction" by the Allies, was officially abolished by an Allied declaration in 1947. The international status of the former eastern territories of the Kingdom of Prussia was disputed until the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in 1990, but its return to Germany remains a cause among far-right politicians, the Federation of Expellees and various political revanchists and irredentists.
The terms "Prussian" and "Prussianism" have often been used, especially outside Germany, to denote the militarism, military professionalism, aggressiveness, and conservatism of the class of landed aristocrats in the East who dominated first Prussia and then the German Empire. Provided by Wikipedia
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Die neue preussische Steuergesetzgebung bestehend aus dem Einkommen-Steuergesetz, Gewerbe-Steuergesetz, Ergänzungs-Steuergesetz, Kommunal-Abgabengesetz was Jedermann davon wissen... by Puschmann, Paul, active 19th century
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Das Einkommensteuergesetz vom 24. Juni 1891 für die Preussische Monarchie mit Ausnahme der Hohenzollernschen Lande und Helgoland als Anhang: Sachregister, Schema für die Selbstei...
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Die Rentengüter-Gesetze in Preussen vom 27. Juni 1890 und 7. Juli 1891 Text-Asugabe mit Anmerkungen /
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Kreisordnung für die Provinzen Preussen, Brandenburg, Pommern, Posen, Sachsen und Schlesien Vom 13. December 1872 : Nebst Wahl-Reglement.
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Die Preussischen Steuergesetze vom Juni/Juli 1893 Gesetz wegen Aufhebung direkter Staatssteuern, vom 14. Juli 1893 : Ergänzungssteuergesetz, vom 14. Juli 1893 : Kommunalabgabenges...
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Das Feld- und Forstpolizei-Gesetz vom 1. April 1880 Gesetz betreffend den Forstdiebstahl vom 15. April 1878.
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Das Pensionsgesetz vom 27. März 1872 in der durch die Gesetze vom 31. März 1882 und 30. April 1884 abgeänderten Fassung Gesetze, betreffend die Abänderung des Pensionsgesetzes,...
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Wildschadengesetz vom 11. Juli 1891 (Gesesetz-Sammlung S. 307) sowie Gesetz über die Schonzeit des Wildes vom 26. Februar 1870 (Gesesetz-Sammlung S. 120)
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Der Kosten- und Stempel-Ansatz in Sachen der freiwilligen (nicht streitigen) Gerichtsbarkeit nach den Gesetzen von 1895 ; Zusammenstellung der bestehenden Gesetze, Verordnungen, En...
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Die Vormundschaftsordnung vom 5. Juli 1875, das Gesetz betreffend die Geschäftsfähigkeit Minderjähriger und die Aufhebung der Wiedereinsetzung in den vorigen Stand wegen Minderj...
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Die Kreis-Ordnung vom 13. December 1872 nebst allen dazu ergangenen Gesetzen und Instruktionen aus den Materialien /
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Die Gesetze über a. Einkommensteuer, b. Gewerbesteuer für den preuss. Staat vom 24. Juni 1891 auf Grund der Motive der Regiergungsvorlage sowie der Parlaments-Verhandlungen komme...
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Das neue Preussische Ergänzungssteuer-Gesetz (Vermögenssteuer-Gesetz) vom 14. Juli 1893 nebst dem Gesetz, betr. Aenderung des Wahlverfahrens vom 29. Juni 1893 /
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Feld- und Forst-Polizei-Gesetz vom 1. April 1880 nebst der Verordnung vom 30. Juni 1839, betreffend die Kontrole der Hölzer, welche unverarbeitet transportirt werden und der vorla...
Published 1881“…Prussia (Germany)…”
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Einkommensteuergesetz vom 24. Juni 1891 und Ergänzungssteuergesetz vom 14. Juli 1893 nebst Auszug aus den Ausführungsanweisungen vom 6. Juli 1900.
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Feld- und Forst-Polizeigesetz vom 1. April 1880 Forstdiebstahlsgesetz vom 15. April 1878.
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Die preussischen Kostengesetze vom 25. Juli 1910 preussisches Gerichtskostengesetz und Gebührenordnung für Notare ; mit Kommentar in Anmerkungen und mit Kostentabellen /
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Feld- und Forst-Polizeigesetz vom 1. April 1880 Forstdiebstahlsgesetz vom 15. April 1878 : mit Anmerkungen und ausführlichem Sachregister.
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Feld- und Forst-Polizei-Gesetz vom 1. April 1880 und Gesetz betreffend den Forstdiebstahl vom 15. April 1878 Textausgabe mit Anmerkungen und Register /
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Das Einkommensteuergesetz für die preussische Monarchie mit Ausnahme der Hohenzollernschen Lande und Helgoland : mit Sachregister und einem Anhang : Formulare für die Selbsteinsc...
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