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Preceding Germanisation, numerous Prussian tribes inhabited Prussia, exhibiting pagan beliefs. Accordingly, religious as well as economic and political factors inspired eastward German expansion, in what was later regarded as the Drang nach Osten (push to the east). [1]
Germanisation in its modern form was conducted from the beginning of the 19th century as a set of Prussian/German and (to a lesser degree and for a shorter time) Austrian state policies of forceful imposition of German culture, language and people upon non-German people, Slavs in particular.
Poles in the Prussian partition were subject to extensive Germanization policies (Kulturkampf, Hakata). Frederick the Great brought 300,000 colonists to territories he conquered to facilitate Germanization.
With Prussian support, the Russian army crushed the Polish revolt in April 1864. Bismarck continued Prussia's anti-Polish policies as Chancellor of the German Empire, which was formed in 1871, believing that an independent Poland constituted a threat to the young German nation-state.
Germanize all public education. Prussian officials pursued these goals with renewed vigor after 1848 and even tried to Germanize the Archbishopric of Poznani-Gniezno. In Hagen's view Bismarck's anti-Polish policies represent- ed no innovation in aim or basic content, only an increase in severity.
8. Jan. 2022 · This applied especially to the Prussians when they started introducing Germanization policies in the territories gained after the partitions of Poland and were confronted with the National Democracy there, mainly in the province of Poznań.
‘Germanization’ could, in one sense, be understood as suppression of ‘Polonism’: the more politically passive the Polish population, the more secure the province under its Prussian administration. Until 1858 the Prussian government applied its reactionary policies with special rigor to Polish political agitation, electioneering, and ...
