List of German Confederation member states

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The following List of German Confederation member states shows those states that in 20 June 1815 were part of the German Confederation, which lasted, with some changes in the member states, until 24 August 1866, under the presidency of the Austrian imperial house of Habsburg, which was represented by an -Austrian- 'presidential envoy' to the Federal Parliament (in Frankfurt).

On the whole, its territory nearly coincided with that remaining in the Holy Roman Empire when Napoleon caused its end; with the exception of the two rivalling major powers, Habsburg and Prussia, and the western left bank of the Rhine (which France had annexed, with tiny Katzenelnbogen) the other member states or their precursors, most of present Germany, had been within his Confederation of the Rhine.

  1. The Empire of Austria (without Hungary, Transylvania, Bukowina, and Croatia, which became the apostolic kingdom of Hungary within the Danubian (Double Monarchy', the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (constituting parts lost to Italy in 1859- viz. 1866), the kingdoms of Dalmatia and Galicia)
    1. Austria (split into Upper Austria and Lower Austria in 1849)
    2. Bohemia
    3. Carinthia
    4. Carniola
    5. Gorizia and Gradisca
    6. Istria
    7. Moravia
    8. Salzburg
    9. Silesia
    10. Styria
    11. Trieste
    12. Tyrol
    13. Vorarlberg
  2. The Kingdom of Prussia (without Posen, East Prussia and West Prussia)
    1. Brandenburg the homeland, with the capital
    2. Pomerania
    3. Rheinland (until 1822, Niederrhein and Jülich-Kleve-Berg)
    4. Saxony
    5. Silesia
    6. Westphalia, much smaller then the former 'Napoleonic' kingdom
  3. The Kingdom of Bavaria the third largest member
  4. The Kingdom of Saxony
  5. The Kingdom of Hanover
  6. The Kingdom of Württemberg
  7. The Grand Duchy of Baden
  8. The former ?Electorate of Hesse, known after its capital as Hesse-Kassel, a former landgraviate
  9. The Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
  10. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (lost in 1839 over half of its territory, in the west, to Belgium, in the aftermath of the breakup of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands; only the easternmore present independent country, then in personal union with the Dutch crown, remained in the Confederation until 1866)
  11. The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  12. The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  13. The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
  14. The Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau (Duchy of Anhalt from 1863)
  15. The Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg (to 1863)
  16. The Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen (to 1847)
  17. The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, or Brunswick for short
  18. The Duchy of Holstein, in personal union with the Danish kingdom, was not a former member of the Rheinbund,
    1. nor the duchy of Schleswig in the same Danish constellation (never even a member of the Holy Roman Empire), which also joined from 1848
  19. The Duchy of Lauenburg
  20. The Duchy of Limburg (from 1839; no link to the Belghian and Dutch provinces of that name)
  21. The Duchy of Nassau
  22. The Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (to 1825)
  23. The Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from 1826)
  24. The Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen
  25. The Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen (Saxe-Altenburg from 1826)
  26. The Duchy of Oldenburg (Grand Duchy from 1829)
  27. The Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg (from 1817)
  28. The Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  29. The Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  30. The Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (to 1850)
  31. The Principality of Liechtenstein
  32. The Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (to 1850)
  33. The Principality of Waldeck
  34. The Principality of Reuß Senior Line
  35. The Principality of Reuß Junior Line
  36. The Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
  37. The Principality of Lippe
  38. The Free City of Lübeck
  39. The Free City of Frankfurt am Main
  40. The Free City of Bremen (still a constitutive state of federal Germany)
  41. The Free City of Hamburg (still a constitutive state of federal Germany)
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