Erfurt Union
PRUSSIAN INITIATIVE TO UNIFY GERMANY, 1849/1850
Erfurt Assembly; Erfurt Parliament; Erfurt parliament; Erfurt Union Parliament; Erfurt assembly; Alliance of the Three Kings; Three King's Alliance
The Erfurt Union () was a short-lived union of German states under a federation, proposed by the Kingdom of Prussia at Erfurt, for which the Erfurt Union Parliament (Erfurter Unionsparlament), lasting from March 20 to April 29, 1850, was opened at the former Augustinian monastery in Erfurt.Blackbourn, David (1997) The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918, Oxford: Oxford University PressGunter Mai, [2000] Die Erfurter Union und das Erfurter Unionsparlament 1850.