The authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly after the founding of Germany in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the Prussian Settlement Commission was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas.

Marcin Dunin, archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno and Roman Catholic primate of Poland, was imprisoned by Prussian authorities for ten months in 1839-1840 ; after his release, he tried to organise a chaplaincy for the many Polish soldiers stationed in the city.

After 1871 there appeared resistance among the Masurians towards Germanization efforts, the so called Gromadki movement was formed which supported use of Polish language and came into conflict with German authorities ; while most of its members viewed themselves as loyal to Prussian state, a part of them joined the Pro-Polish faction of Masurians.

The Prussian authorities expanded the city boundaries, making the walled city and its closest suburbs into a single administrative unit.

Due to its strategic location, the Prussian authorities intended to make Poznań into a fortress city, building a ring of defensive fortifications around it.

Polish patriots continued to form societies ( such as the Central Economic Society for the Grand Duchy of Poznań ), and a Polish theatre ( Teatr Polski, still functioning ) opened in 1875 ; however the authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly through the Prussian Settlement Commission ( founded 1886 ).

Also, a very large government presence, with many German imperial departments, Prussian state authorities and their various sub-departments, came into the area, taking over 26 former palaces and aristocratic mansions in Leipziger Platz, Leipziger Straße and Wilhelmstraße.

However this plan quickly turned to disaster: his passport having been seized by the authorities on behalf of his creditors, he and Minna had to make a dangerous and illegal crossing over the Prussian border, during which Minna suffered a miscarriage.

The authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly after the founding of Germany in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the Prussian Settlement Commission was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas.

Gambling would later be outlawed by Prussian authorities in 1872.

Marx had been living in Paris since late October 1843 following the banning of the Rheinsche Zeitung by Prussian governmental authorities in March 1843.

On June 6, 1849 Prussian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Frederick Engels which contained a physical description as " height: 5 feet 6 inches ; hair: blond ; forehead: smooth ; eyebrows: blond ; eyes: blue ; nose and mouth: well proportioned ; beard: reddish ; chin: oval ; face: oval ; complexion: healthy ; figure: slender.

Not a surprising fact, considering that in the 19th century the Prussian authorities dissolved the Order of St Clare and turned the church into a warehouse, among other uses.

The abbot, Antonin Nolbek, was imprisoned the following year by Prussian authorities.

Volume One has a detailed description of Kinkel's revolutionary activities in Bonn and his subsequent trial, imprisonment and escape from the Prussian authorities.

In 1822 his lectures were prohibited in Berlin, because of the influence of Hegel with the Prussian authorities, who also prevented him from obtaining a chair from the Saxon government.

For Fries, Hegel's theories merely added up to a defence of the establishment and, specifically, the Prussian authorities.

This degree of severity might have been held by the Prussian authorities to be unnecessary, had Ewald been less hostile in his language.

Thereafter you are in no way involved with anyone else's government — no more than a Prussian subject is with Belgian authorities .”

Already in 1864 the Prussian occupying authorities had deposed Bishop Sechmann Boesen.

Prussian authorities were particularly suspect of the spread of monastic life east and west into the Polish and French ethnic areas.

However, on May 19, 1849 the Prussian authorities had closed down the newspaper because of its support for constitutional and democratic reforms.

It was built on the site of the former Berlin Stadtschloss ( Berlin City Palace ), which was heavily damaged during World War II, but eventually demolished by the government authorities in 1950, as they had no budget in those years after World War II for reconstruction, and they also regarded it a symbol of Prussian imperialism.

Prussian authorities attempted to expel Poles from administration to weaken the Polish nobility by buying its lands, and, after 1832, the role of the Polish language in education was significantly repressed.

Anti-Prussian sentiment grew as response to policy of Germanisation and repression by Prussian authorities and conspiracy organisation called Związek Plebejuszy found a potent ground.

Baltic amber or succinite ( historically documented as Prussian amber ) is found as irregular nodules in marine glauconitic sand, known as blue earth, occurring in the Lower Oligocene strata of Sambia in Prussia ( in historical sources also referred to as Glaesaria ).

He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).

He also became friends with Wilhelm von Humboldt, then Prussian ambassador at the Court of St. James's, to whom he taught Sanskrit.

He also became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy the following year.

Emperor Wilhelm I declined this: " This was also the day of the first Prussian coronation of the king, which should not fall into the shadow of a united German holiday.

Germany's nobles, especially those in the East – called Junkers – dominated not only the localities, but also the Prussian court, and especially the Prussian army.

In the same year he was also named a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

The first Lithuanians were a branch of an ancient Indo-European group known as the Balts, whose tribes also included the original Prussian and Latvian people.

An additional claimant emerged, William VI, Prince of Orange who now ruled the Netherlands, and whose mother and wife were descendants of the Prussian royal family and thus also descendants of both daughters of the last Luxembourg heiress.

In 1850, after a dispute over Hesse, Prussia was humiliated and forced to back down by Austria ( supported by Russia ) in the so-called Punctation of Olmütz ; a plan for the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership, proposed by Prussia's Prime Minister Radowitz, was also abandoned.

The Regent also appointed Helmuth von Moltke as the new Chief of Staff for the Prussian Army, and Albrecht von Roon as Prussian Minister of War and to the job of reorganizing the army.

He was also given a cash grant by the Prussian Landtag, which he used to buy a new country estate, Varzin, larger than his existing estates combined.

He was also appointed Imperial Chancellor ( Reichskanzler ) of the German Empire, but retained his Prussian offices ( including those of Minister-President and Foreign Minister ).

The language is called “ Old Prussian ” to avoid confusion with the German dialects Low Prussian and High Prussian, and the adjective “ Prussian ”, which is also often used to relate to the later German state.

The early Russian type ( known as " The Helmet of Yaroslav Mudry ") was also used by cavalry, which had used the spike as a holder for a horsehair plume in full dress, a practice also followed with some Prussian models ( see below ).

This building backed on to an equally grand edifice in the next street ( Prinz-Albrecht-Straße ), also by Colditz, that had been built for the Preußischer Landtag ( the Prussian Lower House ), in 1892-9.

Gibbs was also a corresponding member of the Prussian and French Academies of Science.

Prussia first set foot on the Rhine in 1609 by the occupation of the Duchy of Cleves and about a century later Upper Guelders and Moers also became Prussian.