Industrialization at Full TiltHistory 323 / Feb. 1, 2013

Economic Statistics: Prussian growth

1850 1860 1870

Km of railroad 3,869 7,169 11,523

Saar coal (millions of tons) 0.675 2.18

Ruhr coal (millions of tons) 1.96 4.28

Alfred Krupp(1812-1887)

Manufacturing at Krupp,mid-19th Century

The Höchst dye works (founded 1863)

BASF (the Baden Aniline and Soda Factory)in 1866, 1881, ca. 1890

Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch(1808-1883)

Increasing agricultural productivity:the steam plow (ca. 1860)

Count Albrecht von RoonPrussian Minister of War,

1859-1873

Count Helmuth von MoltkeChief of the Prussian General

Staff, 1857-1888

Schiller year festivities: Stuttgart, 1859

Elections to Prussia’s Parliament, 1858-1863

Group Nov. 1858 Dec. 1861 May 1862 Oct. 1863

Progressives ---- 104 133 141

Other liberals 195 139 117 106

Conservatives 47 14 11 35

Catholics 57 54 28 26

Poles 18 23 22 26

Unorganized 35 18 43 18

Otto von Bismarck

Prime Ministerof Prussia,1862-71