The leaders of the Revolutions through much of Europe had seized power from the old order but they quickly fell out among themselves, there were the Liberals who wanted political reform and the radicals who wanted both political and social reforms. Then there were the Nationalist divisions, it was not long before Germen Nationalists were conflict with Czech, Polish and Danish Nationalist. It was the latter that would led to the First Schleswig War.

1848 was the year of revolutions in Europe and it would effect Prussia too. However the fighting in Berlin would some of the bloodiest of the revolutions, with Prussian troops firing on the city's citizens who then took to the barricades. The Prussian King Frederick William the Fourth withdrew the army from the City and accept the demands for political reforms from the Liberals at least for now.

A brief history of Prussia between 1806 and 1847. A biography of the King of Prussia in 1847, King Frederick William the Fourth. His attempts at some limited reforms but his also his belief that he had a divine right to rule. Also there is a brief biography of the early years of Otto von Bismarck, who by 1847, he was still a minor figure in Prussian politics but held firmly Conservative views.