What was the cultural difference between the North Sea Germans, Weser-Rhine Germans and Elbe Germans aside from linguistics?And how those this effect the culture of where those languages are spoken today?For example, North Sea Germanic consists of England as well as the rest of the British Isles, most of North America and Australia as well as Friesland in the Netherlands and Northern Germany including Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Shleswig-Holstein and Saxony.Weser-Rhine Germanic consists of the Netherlands excluding Friesland, Flanders in Belgium, Luxembourg and in Germany, the Rhineland, Hesse and Thuringia.And for Elbe Germanic, it consists of Swabia and Bavaria in Southern Germany as well as Austria, the German speaking areas of Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Trentino in Italy.One thing I have noticed is that alot of the stereotypical militaristic German culture comes from the North, the area of Germany that is linguistically closer to England, a place that also has a stereotype of being militaristic due to having the largest empire and the industrial revolution started in England while I think North Germany is the industrial heartland?And then of course the Elbe German people don't live where they use to today and are basically your typical Alpine Germans, I guess it's like the touristy area of the West Germanic speaking world I guess.And I guess Weser-Rhine Germans are the stereotypical rich aristocratic Germans, the ones with the Castles mabye? I know the Frank's are Weser-Rhine Germans and they practically owned France which also has the stereotype of being very fancy like.
I've never once thought of England as "militaristic", in my mind the English are merchants and sailors. They have a powerful navy but only in service of their maritime trade network, which was the main focus of their civilization during the imperial era. And prior to that they were just wool merchants. I also don't think the "north Germans" were particularly militarized. When most people think of "militarized Germans" they think of Prussia, which was founded by the Teutonic Order. Now, the Teutonic Order might have originated from North Germanic merchants (from the Hanseatic cities) but after the conquests the region was largely settled by migrants from the Rhinelands, in central and western Germany. So the famed "army with a state" that is Prussia was largely of west-German descent.
>>18538380What is stereotypical militaristic German culture?
>>18538401>Now, the Teutonic Order might have originated from North Germanic merchants???
>>18538401The actual Prussia was not the dominant force in Prussia (Brandenburg and its territories inherited Prussia and renamed its new territory Prussia to ''evade'' a law), it was Brandenburg and the Hohenzoller family which advanced the militarism of Prussia and later Germany as a whole.
>>18538454The tight black leather uniforms and riding crops, the Prussians, the Kaisers, the Nazis, the stereotypical "evil" Germans in fiction.
>>18538530>>18538454Newflash.http://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1fG83QjjH769EfF35vp_8jUCmuKy7rbw?si=KfHYH8qnq9uZoy-_
>>18538461You're unaware? The Teutonic Order was founded by Hanseatic merchants taking part in the crusades. Their membership quickly swelled with people from all over the Germanic lands, however. >>18538474Hohenzollern were a Swabian family, originally, so not northern at all, and again most of the German-speaking population settled into Prussia were from the Rhineland. So how much of Prussia's culture was really "northern"? The people in the Prussian provinces were westerners, the rulers of the core territory were southerners.
>>18538916Hohenzollern probably original Baltic that migrate in Swabia
