People and places
Will be looking at urban youth; young people’s responses in Berlin to urbanisation. They go into the
countryside and have a nice time, but there are nuances to this. Will look at young people in Berlin
and what theyre doing throughout this period.
Will have some oral presentations that are non-assessed.
There’s over 300 individual states/entities that are part of the empire, ranging in size, existing in
theory as an umbrella organisation, the Holy Roman Empire.
1806- Napoleon invades Germany. Germans are organised under the German Confederation,
because Napoleon does not like the previous way of organising the Romans. The idea of unity goes
through German history. There’s 39 members, far more rational.
1848- There are revolutions all over Europe, broadly middle class liberal ones. In Germany there’s
the Frankfurt parliament which lasts for 100 days. They try to have a rational German set of states,
but they also want to have a king. They want to have Austria, but they don’t want Austria’s non
German parts, and Austria Hungary refuses to give up its non German parts. They don’t really want
to have the Prussians in charge. So, they have this parliament. There were protocols- all the debates
they had were written down . you can look at them as a nice set of 100 days source. One of the
Grimm brothers (from the Grimm’s brothers fairytales), Yaqob, sat in the middle of parliament
(because they were really interested in folk history) as the father of a German national identity of
Victorian language.
1862- Bismark is appointed prime minister of Prussia. He was the iron chancellor, the idea of being
like an iron fist ruling in a velvet glove. You get this idea throughout German history of having strong
men in power, you need someone to bring together the nation, to force the different states and
different parts of Germany to work together. Bismark was this man.
What was Germany called between 1871 and 1918? The German empire, the second empire (the
first empire was the Holy Roman Empire and in between there was a little revolution), or Wilheilm
Germany (Kaiser Wilheilm was in charge).
What was Germany called between 1919 and 1933? Weimar Republic.
What was Germany called between 1933 and 1945? The Third Reich.
Between 1945- 1949, the allies occupied Germany. West Germany was called the Republic of
Germany, and the East was called the German Democratic Republic.
The period we will look at and focus on Berlin for, is between 1919 and hopefully stop in 1936. This
period witnessed lots of internal migration. Unification meant it was easier for industrialisation to
occur because there were fewer internal tariffs etc and this was in a time period when
industrialisation was occurring on a grand scale. There were more cities, and also people moving out
elsewhere eg to America.
Some statistics/Indicative facts:
Population increase between 1871 and 1914 was by 58% from 41 million to 65 million. The number
of people living in towns of 5,000 residents saw a 229% increase from 9.7 to 31.7 million. Percentage
of population living in villages with fewer than 2,000 people fell to 40%. So the rural experience of
living in small, closely knitted community is less than half the population, having previously been
more than that. The growth of metropolitan areas of more than 100,000 people: in 1871 there were
Will be looking at urban youth; young people’s responses in Berlin to urbanisation. They go into the
countryside and have a nice time, but there are nuances to this. Will look at young people in Berlin
and what theyre doing throughout this period.
Will have some oral presentations that are non-assessed.
There’s over 300 individual states/entities that are part of the empire, ranging in size, existing in
theory as an umbrella organisation, the Holy Roman Empire.
1806- Napoleon invades Germany. Germans are organised under the German Confederation,
because Napoleon does not like the previous way of organising the Romans. The idea of unity goes
through German history. There’s 39 members, far more rational.
1848- There are revolutions all over Europe, broadly middle class liberal ones. In Germany there’s
the Frankfurt parliament which lasts for 100 days. They try to have a rational German set of states,
but they also want to have a king. They want to have Austria, but they don’t want Austria’s non
German parts, and Austria Hungary refuses to give up its non German parts. They don’t really want
to have the Prussians in charge. So, they have this parliament. There were protocols- all the debates
they had were written down . you can look at them as a nice set of 100 days source. One of the
Grimm brothers (from the Grimm’s brothers fairytales), Yaqob, sat in the middle of parliament
(because they were really interested in folk history) as the father of a German national identity of
Victorian language.
1862- Bismark is appointed prime minister of Prussia. He was the iron chancellor, the idea of being
like an iron fist ruling in a velvet glove. You get this idea throughout German history of having strong
men in power, you need someone to bring together the nation, to force the different states and
different parts of Germany to work together. Bismark was this man.
What was Germany called between 1871 and 1918? The German empire, the second empire (the
first empire was the Holy Roman Empire and in between there was a little revolution), or Wilheilm
Germany (Kaiser Wilheilm was in charge).
What was Germany called between 1919 and 1933? Weimar Republic.
What was Germany called between 1933 and 1945? The Third Reich.
Between 1945- 1949, the allies occupied Germany. West Germany was called the Republic of
Germany, and the East was called the German Democratic Republic.
The period we will look at and focus on Berlin for, is between 1919 and hopefully stop in 1936. This
period witnessed lots of internal migration. Unification meant it was easier for industrialisation to
occur because there were fewer internal tariffs etc and this was in a time period when
industrialisation was occurring on a grand scale. There were more cities, and also people moving out
elsewhere eg to America.
Some statistics/Indicative facts:
Population increase between 1871 and 1914 was by 58% from 41 million to 65 million. The number
of people living in towns of 5,000 residents saw a 229% increase from 9.7 to 31.7 million. Percentage
of population living in villages with fewer than 2,000 people fell to 40%. So the rural experience of
living in small, closely knitted community is less than half the population, having previously been
more than that. The growth of metropolitan areas of more than 100,000 people: in 1871 there were
