Posted: 7/12/2015 10:28:24 PM EDT
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I got to wondering today what the First and Second Reich were.
I knew Hitler declared his reign the Third Reich I found this explanation: ----------------------- The Third Reich, the regime in Germany from 1933 to 1945, was named as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman Empire of 800 to 1806 (the First Reich) and the German Empire of 1871 to 1918 (the Second Reich). ----------------------- |
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First Reich would be the Holy Roman Empire Second Reich would be the reign of the Hapsburg to the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm in 1918. This is the way I understood it as well. Nope. Hapsburgs, while having their fingers all over Europe, were pretty much an Austrian Dynasty by the time of the German Empire (1871-1918). The German Empire was ruled by a Prussian dynastic family the Hozenhollerns, not by the Hapsburgs, and it is this empire that is commonly referred to as the Second Reich. |
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Lol Do you even Charlemagne? ETA- I understand the Voltaire comment, I just don't agree with it. Quoted:
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"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." Lol Do you even Charlemagne? ETA- I understand the Voltaire comment, I just don't agree with it. He was just being Frank |
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Nope. Hapsburgs, while having their fingers all over Europe, were pretty much an Austrian Dynasty by the time of the German Empire (1871-1918). The German Empire was ruled by a Prussian dynastic family the Hozenhollerns, not by the Hapsburgs, and it is this empire that is commonly referred to as the Second Reich. Quoted:
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First Reich would be the Holy Roman Empire Second Reich would be the reign of the Hapsburg to the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm in 1918. This is the way I understood it as well. Nope. Hapsburgs, while having their fingers all over Europe, were pretty much an Austrian Dynasty by the time of the German Empire (1871-1918). The German Empire was ruled by a Prussian dynastic family the Hozenhollerns, not by the Hapsburgs, and it is this empire that is commonly referred to as the Second Reich. Yep, these people: 
My Great Grandparents had this lithograph. I don't know if they brought it with them from Germany or if someone had it shipped to them after they came over to TX from Germany in the late 1800's. They hid it away during WW1 and they kept it up in their attic. I pulled it down and had it framed. They also had the required lithograph of the post civil war south, even though they were not even in the US during the war. 
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