The year after he wrote Das Deutschlandlied, Hoffmann von Fallersleben lost his job as a librarian and professor in Breslau, Prussia, because of this and other revolutionary works, and was forced into hiding until being pardoned after the revolutions of 1848 in the German states.

In the process, Prussia became too heterogeneous, lost its identity, and by the 1930s had become an administrative shell of little importance.

Prussia lost its recently acquired territories in western Germany, its army was reduced to 42, 000 men, no trade with Britain was allowed, and Berlin had to pay Paris heavy reparations and fund the French army of occupation.

But the Kingdom of Denmark lost the area to Austria and Prussia in 1864 in the Second Schleswig War, and it is now in Germany.

The Order lost control of western Prussia.

In 1900 alone, the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania lost about 1, 600, 000 people to the cities, where these former agricultural workers were absorbed into the rapidly growing factory labor class ; One of the causes of this mass-migration was the decrease in rural income compared to the rates of pay in the cities.

It was not without cost, however, as Prussia lost 10, 500 to death or wounds.

Upper Lusatia was arbitrarily divided: the area assigned to Prussia, including Görlitz, was added to the Province of Silesia ; these areas also lost their constitutional autonomy.

The Teutonic Order lost eastern Prussia when Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order in 1525.

From 1885 to 1890 Berlin's population grew by 20 %, Brandenburg and the Rhineland gained 8. 5 %, Westphalia 10 %, while East Prussia lost 0. 07 % and West Prussia 0. 86 %.

The immediate cause was a conflict between the king and the cabinet over the reunification with Denmark of Schleswig, a former Danish fiefdom, which had been lost to Prussia during the Second War of Schleswig.

The first occasion was in 1755 when, stimulated by his imperious consort Louisa Ulrika of Prussia ( sister of Frederick the Great ), he tried to regain a portion of the attenuated prerogative, and nearly lost his throne in consequence.

The result: Maria Theresa lost the mineral-rich Duchy of Silesia to Prussia, and the Duchy of Parma to Spain.

A few Prussian units managed to cross the Oder River into Poland, but Prussia lost the vast majority of its army.

The German Red Cross helps to identify and locate family members who lost contact with one another, such as the Wolf children, during the turmoil in East Prussia.

Nevertheless Meyerbeer's last years saw the composition of a good deal of non-operatic music, including a Coronation March for William I of Prussia, ( 1861 ), an overture for the 1862 International Exhibition in London, and incidental music ( now lost ) to Henri Blaze de Bury's play La jeunesse de Goethe ( 1860 ).

The Second French Empire came to an end in 1870 after it had lost the war against Prussia, causing Emperor Napoleon III to lose his throne.

The hopes of the Swedish Hats party to recover territories lost to Prussia in 1720 were thwarted, and the unpopular and costly war contributed to their subsequent downfall.

When Nassau lost indepence in 1866 it was added to Prussia, who then in 1867 created the Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, and as parts of it the two districts Rheingaukreis and Unterlahnkreis.

After the Treaties of Tilsit in 1807, Prussia lost about half of its territory, including the land gained from the Second and Third Partitions of Poland ( which now fell to the Duchy of Warsaw ) and all land west of the Elbe River.

Prussia ’ s reward for its part in France's defeat came at the Congress of Vienna, where Prussia was granted most of its lost territories and considerably more, including 40 % of the Kingdom of Saxony and much of the Rhineland.

In 1915, the territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia, without international recognition.

While the Kingdom of Prussia contained most of the population and most of the territory of the Reich, the Prussian leadership became supplanted by German leaders and Prussia itself played a lesser role.

The Kingdom of Prussia was the largest of the constituent states, covering some 60 % of the territory of the German Empire.

Prussia was the big winner at the Vienna peace conference, gaining extensive territory.

Prussia ( in blue ) considerably expanded its territory.

Prussia not only expanded its territory but began to industrialize rapidly, while maintaining a strong agricultural base.

The Confederation took over the government, but Russia and Prussia in 1793 arranged for and executed the Second Partition of the Commonwealth, which left the country with critically reduced territory, practically incapable of independent existence.

Prussia was then becoming a new threat, as it had gained substantial territory from Austria.

The territory of the Kaliningrad Oblast coincides with that of the northern part of historical East Prussia ( German: Nord-Ostpreussen ), which was an exclave of Germany from World War I until 1945.

To compensate Prussia for these losses ( and partly because Hitler had a personal dislike for Lübeck after it had refused to allow him to campaign there in 1932 ), the 711-year-long independence of Lübeck came to an end and almost all its territory was incorporated into Schleswig-Holstein.

Russian territory adjacent to Lithuania is Kaliningrad Oblast, which is the northern part of the former German East Prussia, including the city of Kaliningrad.

In the 11th – 13th century, the territory was inhabited by the Old Prussians also called Baltic Prussians, a Baltic ethnic group that inhabited Prussia in the lands of Pomesania, Pogesania, Galindia, Bartia, and Sudovia, and in the lands of the southeastern coastal region of the Baltic Sea around the Vistula Lagoon and the Curonian Lagoon.

In addition to Prussia proper the original territory of the Old Prussians may also have included eastern parts of Pomerelia ( some parts of the region east of the Vistula River ).

The northern half of the German Province of East Prussia, occupied by the Red Army during its East Prussian Offensive followed by its evacuation in winter 1945, had already been incorporated into the Soviet territory by amendment of the country's constitution.

Three partitions took place, dividing its territory among the Russian Empire, the Habsburg Empire, and the Kingdom of Prussia.

After the Congress of Vienna, the Kingdom of Prussia received a large amount of territory in the Westphalian region and created the province of Westphalia in 1815.

After the Congress of Vienna, most of the territory was given to the electorate of Hesse, and in 1866 was, with the latter, annexed to Prussia.

Prussia signed a treaty with Russia, agreeing that Polish reforms would be revoked and both countries would receive chunks of Commonwealth territory.

As part of the settlement, the territory of Alsace and part of Lorraine was taken by Prussia to become a part of Germany, and it remained so until the end of World War I when it was returned to France in the Treaty of Versailles.

While the republican government was amenable to reparation payments or transfer of colonial territories in Africa or in South East Asia to Prussia, Jules Favre on behalf of the Government of National Defense declared on 6 September that France would not " yield an inch of its territory nor a stone of its fortresses.

While historically Peter's planned war against Denmark was seen as being a political failure, recent scholarship has portrayed it as part of a pragmatic plan to expand Russian power westwards — he saw gaining territory and influence in Denmark and Northern Germany as more useful to Russia than taking East Prussia.

The area of Prussian control was made up of territory from the former Prussian provinces of New East Prussia, Southern Prussia, New Silesia, and West Prussia.