DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION 
943 Germany and Austria 
Period divisions 
Formativ period 
Wars with Rome Charlemagne 800-814 Louis 1 814-840 
Lothaire 1 840-843 
Empire before the reformation 
1 Carolingian 843-911: Louis 2 843-876 Charles 2 876-877 
Charles 3 877-887 Arnulf 887-809 Louis 3 goo-gr11 
2 House of Franconia: Conrad 1 9rr—9i18 House of Saxony, 
o10-1024: Henry 1 919-936 Otto 1 936-973 Otto 2 973-083 
Otto 3 983-1002 Henry 2 1002-24 
3 House of Franconia 1024-1125: Conrad 2 1024-39 Henry 3 
1039-56 Henry 4 1056-1100 Henry 5 1106-25 House of 
Saxony: Lothaire 2 1125-37 
4 House of Hohenstaufen 1137-97: Conrad 3 1138-52 Fred- 
erick 1 1152-90 Henry 6 1190-97 
5 House of Hohenstaufen and Interregnum 1198-1272: Philip 
1198-1208 Otto 4 1208-12 Frederick 2 1212-50 Conrad 4 
1250-54 William of Holland 1254-56 Richard of Cornwall 
1256-72 
6 Houses of Hapsburg, Luxemburg, etc. 1273-1378: Rodolph 1 
1273-91 Adolphus 1201-98 Albert 1 1298-1308 Henry 7 
r3o8-13 Louis 4 1313-47 Charles 4 1347-78 
7 Interregnum 1378-1437: Wenceslaus 1378-1400 Rupert 
1400-I0 Sigismund 1410-37 
8 Albert 2 1438-30 Frederick 3 1440-903 
9 Maximilian 1 1493-1519 
Reformation to 1618 1517-1618 
t Charles 5 1510-1556 2 Ferdinand 1 1550-64 3 Maxi- 
milian 2 1564-76 4 Rodolph 2 1576-1612 5 Matthias 
1612-19 
Disintegration 1618-1705 
1 Thirty years’ war 1618-48 2 Ferdinand 2 1619-37 3 Fer- 
dinand 3 1637-57 4 Leopold 1 1658-1705 
Rise of Prussia 1705-89 
1 Joseph 1 1705-11 2 Charles 6 1711-40 3 1740-42 
4 Charles 7 1742-45 . 5 Francis 1 1745-05 6 Seven years war 
1756-063 7 Joseph 2 1765-90 
Napoleonic wars 1789-1815 
Leopold 2 1790-92 Francis 2 1792-1806 Confederation of 
the Rhine 1806-15 
Reorganization 1815-66 
New German empire 1866-1918 
1 North German confederation 1866-71 2 Franco-German war 
870-71 3 William 1 1871-88 4 Frederick 1888 Wil. 
liam 2 1888-1918 ; World war 1914-10 and downfall of empire 
German republic 1918 
Presidency of Ebert 199-25 Hindenburg 1925~ 
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