blog 11-Industrial Revolution

The industrial Revolution began about a century later in Germany than it did in England. Germany did not exist as a political unit until the later part of the nineteenth century. First came the Toll Union in 1833, that making tolls between the various German principalities, made Germany into a common marker. For a period of decades, until about 1860s, there were attemps at copying the industrialization that had taken place elsewhere in Europe. The copying was only moderately successful. In 1870 the modern German nation was created and thereafter major industries were founded that led to the full fleged industrialzation of Germany.

A rail system for Germany developed rapidly under the promotion of the German state governments. The rail system increased the demand for steel and coal. The coalfields in the Ruhr Valley were fully developed and made Germany the froemost coal producer in Europe.