Iron Kingdom : The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (149 page)

National Socialists (Nazis):
640
–45,
647
–51,
655
–70; cult of ‘Prussiandom’
655
–63; dissolution of Prussia as administrative entity
663
–4

neo-stoicism
40

Netze District
232
,
233
,
237
,
238
–9

Neuenburg/Neuchâtel
244

Neumark,
2
,
22
,
159
,
210

Neurath
422

Neuruppin
155

Neustadt
356

neutrality, as geopolitical option
23
–4;
293
–4;
299
–305

Nicholas I, Tsar
398
,
492
,
499

Nicolai, Friedrich
129
,
222
,
224
,
227
–8,
252
,
263
,
273

nobility (
see also
Estates): and the army
98
–9,
113
–14,
157
; wealth and status
155
–6; kinship networks
156
–7; plurality of provincial nobilities
157
; financial difficulties of
159
–60; as landowners
160
–64; and changes in manorial justice
164
; in the face of peasant disobedience
166
–7; gender roles in
167
–71; state conservation of
237
; patrimonial justice in the era of reform
341
; decline of corporate privilege
408
–9; changing patterns of landownership
502
; impact of 1918 defeat
638
–9; agrarian interest politics
638
–9; and monarchism
639
,
664
–5; quest for authoritarian leadership
639
; role in dissolution of democratic Prussia
644
,
650
; relationship with Nazi movement and regime
665
–6; role in anti-Nazi resistance
667
; demise of East-Elbian nobility
676

North German Confederation
542
,
545
–6

Northern War (1655–60)
43
,
44

Northern War, Great (1700–1721)
86

Noske, Gustav
625
,
626
–7,
628

Nowy Targ
231

Nymphenburg, League of
194
,
242

Oberbarnim District
31

Oder river
2
,
35
,
48
,
93
,
192
,
237

Oderbruch floodplain
35
,
91
–2

Oliva, Peace of
50
,
54
,
58

Olmütz, Punctation of
497
–500

Oppenheimer, Moritz Daniel
382

Ortelsburg
312

Osterwieck
154

Paderborn
295
,
421

Palatinate, The
14
–15,
295
,
395
,
533

Panin, Nikita
215

Papen, Franz von
644
,
645
,
647
,
648
,
649
,
652

Paris, Treaty of (1763)
206

parliaments (
see also
Diets): National Assembly in Berlin (1848)
478
–82; in Frankfurt (1848)
487
–8,
493
–4; Prussian Landtag after 1848
501
–2,
560
,
581
; Prussian ‘House of Lords’
560
,
669
; German Reichstag
560
,
562
–3; three-class franchise in Prussia
561
–2; abolition of same
635
; DNVP call for dissolution of Landtag
643

peasants: labour services
163
–4; resistance of illegitimate demands from landlords
164
–7; gender relations, moral economy
171
–4; and manorial justice
174
; in annexed areas of Poland
238
; as objects of reformist initiatives
319
–20,
327
–30

Peitz
3
,
60

Perleberg, County of
687
–8

Pfalz-Neuburg, Dukes of
16
,
17

Pfuel, Ernst Heinrich Adolf von
471
,
472
,
480
–81

Pietism: as movement of reform within Lutheranism
124
–7; in the city of Halle
127
–37; cultural impact
137
–9

Pillnitz, Declaration of
287

Poelzig, Hans
564
,
565

Poland: and the Brandenburg claim to Ducal Prussia
10
,
39
,
42
,
44
,
49
,
50
,
58
–60,
65
,
70
; Brandenburg relations with
79
; Russian designs on in Seven Years War
200
; declining political stability
230
–31; Partitions of
186
,
211
,
231
–9,
289
–92; nobility of
237
–8; impact of partitions on Prussian security
293
–4; Wars of Liberation and
363
; re-partition in 1814–15
388
; regional politics in Posen
410
–11; uprising of 1830
410
–11; Poles as linguistic and ethnic minority
428
,
439
,
466
; national movement
443
,
478
,
577
–8; Prussian Poles in the German Empire
576
–83; ‘Germanization’ measures in Prussian Poland
578
–83; Polish uprising in 1918
620

Polish Succession, War of the (1733–38)
190

Pomerania
9
,
20
,
25
,
26
,
42
,
44
,
48
–50,
55
,
150
,
156
,
157
,
159
,
210
,
220
,
347
–8,
414
–15,
484

Poniatowski, Stanislaw August, King of Poland,
see
Stanislaw, King
231

Posen, Grand Duchy, later Province of
410
–11; anti-Catholic campaign in
573

Potsdam:
2
,
35
–6,
262
; refuge of Frederick II after Seven Years War
227
; in 1848
477
; ‘Day of Potsdam’ (1933)
655
–7

Potsdam, Edict of
140

Plaue
30
,
32

Plehwe, Hans Rudolf von
402

Pragmatic Sanction
190
–91

Prague, Battle of (1757)
202
,
220

Prague, Peace of
25

Prenzlau
151
,
154

Preuss, Hugo
620
,
621

Preussisch-Eylau, Battle of
308

Prignitz,
2
,
21
,
30
,
34
,
36
,
156
,
165
–6

Prittwitz, Karl Ludwig von
471
,
472
,
474

Privy Council (Geheimer Rat)
14
,
62

Protestant church (Prussian Union) after 1918
636
–8; ethnocentrism and anti-Semitism in
637
–8

‘Prussian School’ (of historians)
xix–xx

Pufendorf, Samuel,
36
–7,
47
,
71
,
240
,
615

Quantz, Johann Joachim
185

Raby, Lord
72
,
78

Radowitz, Joseph Maria von
397
,
495
,
498
,
511

Radziwill, Prince Boguslav
61
–2

Ramler, Karl Wilhelm
219
,
250
–51

Ranke, Leopold von
434

Rastatt
295
,
486

Rathenow
45

Ravensberg, County of
16
,
20
,
180
,
278

Ravenstein, Lordship of
16

Rebeur, Jean-Philippe,
103

Rechberg, Johann Bernhard von
525

Recke, Count Adalbert von der
413
–14

Reden, Friedrich Wilhelm von
179

Reformation
7
–9

Reichenbach, Convention of (1790)
286

Reichenbach, Treaty of (1813)
366

Rhineland Province: Prussian acquisition of (1815)
389
,
391
; political mobilization in
405
,
406
,
411
–12,
446
–7; legal system
427
; revolutions of 1848
476
,
481
–2,
483
,
485
; industrial growth in
531
; bastion of oppositional politics after 1871
562
–3; separatism in, after First World War
620
; regionalist sentiment
684

Ritter, Doris
107

Rochlitz, Friedrich
368
–9

Rochow, Gustav Adolf Rochus von
418
–19,
440
–41

Rodbertus, Carl
616

Roon, Albrecht von
517
,
529

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
673
–4

Rosenberg, Alfred
657

Rosenberg, Hans
162

Rosicrucians
268
–9,
270

Rossbach, Battle of (1757)
201
,
202
,
219
,
225

Roth, Hieronymus
59
–60

Royal Prussia (
see also
West Prussia)
231
–9

Rüchel, Ernst Wilhelm Friedrich von
296
–7,
303

Rühle von Lilienstern, Johann Jakob Otto August
395
,
396

Ruge, Arnold
457

Rumbold, Sir George
300

Russia: as a factor in Prussian foreign policy
190
,
197
,
198
–200; and Seven Years War
198
–200,
203
–5,
211
–12; attitudes to
224
–5; role in partitions of Poland
231
–2,
289
–92; relations with Napoleonic France
299
–300,
303
,
308
; as prospective Prussian ally after 1809
345
,
353
–4,
356
; in anti-French coalition
362
–3,
366
; as factor in Russian foreign policy after 1815
398
; opposes Prussian-led union in 1848–50
492
,
496
,
499
; breaks with Austria after Crimea
512
; neutral in Austro-Prussian conflict
533
–4; gravitates towards France in 1880s and 1890s
554
–5; attitude to Prussian tradition in 1944–45
674
–5