Describe the process of the unification …

UNIFICATION OF GERMANY 1. Nationlist feelings were widespread among middle class Germans who tried to unite different parts of German into nation state. 2. The liberal initative to nation building was repressed by the combined forces of monarchy and the military supported by Junkers. 3. Prussia took on the leadership of the movement for national unification. 4. The cheif minister Ottoman Bismarck was the architect of the process carried with the help of Prussian army and Bureacracy. 5. Three wars over seven years with Austria, Denmark, and France ended with Prussian victory and completed the process of unification.

Unification of Germany:

• The  newly  emerged  middle  class  in  Germany  in  1848  tried  to  unite  several German  kingdoms which  were  suppressed  by  monarchies  and  large  landowners into one nation state governed by an elected body.
• Prussia, a German kingdom, took the leadership in uniting various German states. Otto  von  Bismarck,  the  Chief  Minister  of  Prussia, aimed  to  achieve  the  goal  of unification with the help of the Prussian army and the bureaucracy.
• Spread over seven years, the Prussian army with the help of the Austrian, French and Danish armies fought three wars and successfully incorporated all the small German kingdoms. This marked the process of completion of German unification.
• The  German  unification  was  completed  in  1871  and  in  the  same  year William I was  declared  as  the emperor of Germany at the Palace of Versailles.
• The process of the unification of Germany exhibited the power of the Prussian state. Many new reforms were initiated in banking, currency, administration and judiciary in Germany.