German Culture: Prussian Spirit and Culture: Prussian Spirit and Culture

Author: Ding Jianhong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: It is evident in history that the Prussian issue was a German issue, an European issue, and even a world issue. Strangely enough, in reality, the Prussian issue still frequently manifests as a German, European, or even world issue. This is the deeper question we aim to explore in "What is Prussia": What kind of country was Prussia, what spirit, culture, and traditions did it possess. As a political geographical concept, Prussia has three meanings: , the Prussian territory on the Baltic coast that was once ruled by the Teutonic Knights in the Middle Ages; second, the Prussian Kingdom ruled by the House of Hohenzollern from 1701 to 1918, which was a state within the German Empire and the German Confederation; third, the Prussian state established in Germany after the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty in 1918. From this perspective, we understand that Prussia was a German state, a German federal state.