Prussians
Old German militarists
Prussians are people from Prussia, a former German kingdom and state that dominated Central European politics from the 18th century until its dissolution after World War II.
The term often carries connotations of rigid militarism, strict discipline, and efficiency: Prussian military tradition.
Historically, Prussians were associated with an aristocratic officer class and an authoritarian culture that shaped modern Germany.
Prussia's unifying statesman
- Frederick the GreatEnlightened Prussian king
- WilhelmGerman masculine royal name
- BrandenburgNortheastern German federal state
- unificationMerging into one entity
Reichstag · absolutism · monarchy · bureaucracy · statecraft · German Empire · autocracy · chancellorship
Trained self-control or specialty
- drillHole-boring device
- armyOrganized land-based military
- infantryGround combat troops
- cavalryMounted military force
grenadiers · hussars · tactics · uniforms · officers · regiment · battalion · artillery
Historic Baltic port city
- DanzigBaltic seaport's German name
- GdanskNorthern Polish seaport
- KaliningradRussian Baltic exclave
- VistulaChief Polish river
German Enlightenment thinker
- ProtestantismReformation-era Christian movement
- LutheranismProtestant tradition emphasizing grace
- BachGerman composer surname
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
Romanticism · Baroque · education · Enlightenment · Humboldt · reason · reform · secularism
Northern European maritime region
- TeutonicOf ancient German peoples
- GermanizationImposing German language, culture
- SlavicOf certain Eastern Europeans
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
paganism · extinction · indigenous · conquest · colonization · settlement · Christianization · tribal
Bismarck
Prussia's unifying statesman
- Frederick the GreatEnlightened Prussian king
- WilhelmGerman masculine royal name
- BrandenburgNortheastern German federal state
unification · Reichstag · absolutism · monarchy · bureaucracy · statecraft · German Empire · autocracy · chancellorship · nationalism
discipline
Trained self-control or specialty
cavalry · grenadiers · hussars · tactics · uniforms · officers · regiment · battalion · artillery · fortification
Königsberg
Historic Baltic port city
- DanzigBaltic seaport's German name
- GdanskNorthern Polish seaport
- KaliningradRussian Baltic exclave
Kant
German Enlightenment thinker
- ProtestantismReformation-era Christian movement
- LutheranismProtestant tradition emphasizing grace
- BachGerman composer surname
philosophy · Romanticism · Baroque · education · Enlightenment · Humboldt · reason · reform · secularism · rationalism
Baltic
Northern European maritime region
- TeutonicOf ancient German peoples
- GermanizationImposing German language, culture
- SlavicOf certain Eastern Europeans
assimilation · paganism · extinction · indigenous · conquest · colonization · settlement · Christianization · tribal
- Germanic peoplesGermans, Austrians, Goth, Visigoth, Ostrogoth
- Medieval PeoplesFranks, Saxons, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals
- Baltic CrusadesNorthern Crusades, Livonian Order, crusaders, crusader, military orders
- German FiguresOtto von Bismarck, Bach, Beethoven, Albert Einstein, Goethe
- Baltic peoplesLatvians, Lithuanians
PrussiansBavarians
Southeastern German inhabitants
Austrians · Rhinelanders · Saxons · Hessians
- Prussian blueDeep synthetic blue pigment
- Franco-Prussian War1870-71 European conflict
- East PrussiaFormer German province, Baltic coast