!!!Großdeutsche, Gruppe von Abgeordneten

Grossdeutsche (Pan-Germans), a group of delegates to the  Frankfurter 
Nationalversammlung 1848, primarily from Austria and southern Germany, 
who maintained that Austria should lead the German Confederation (as 
opposed to the Kleindeutsche (Little German) movement, who pleaded for 
a German Confederation under the leadership of Prussia, without 
Austria). The Grossdeutsche movement gained new support at the 
beginning of the 1860s (J. von Ficker, C. Frantz, A. F. 
Gfoehrer, O. Klopp; meeting of the German princes in 1863). The war of 
1866 led to the victory of the Kleindeutsch solution. Pan-Germanic 
ideas were later taken up by the German-nationalist movement in 
Austria and were also included in the Weimar constitution of 1918/1919 
in Germany and favoured by many Austrian politicians ( Anschluss). 
Under the National-Socialists the Grossdeutsch idea adopted a radical 
nationalist orientation; the Nazi German Reich with the forcefully 
incorporated Austrian, Czech, Polish, Yugoslavian, etc. territories 
was called "Grossdeutsches Reich" from 1938-1945.

!Literature
H. v. Srbik, Deutsche. Einheit, 4 vols., 1935-1942.


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