German Empire Provinces:

Province Capital Population 1871 (in thousands)

Population 1880 (in thousands)

Kingdom - Prussia (Preußen)

Berlin 24,869 27,279

Kingdom – Bavaria (Bayern)

Munich 4863 5285

Kingdom - Saxony (Sachsen)

Dresden 2556 2973

Kingdom- Württemberg

Stuttgart 1819 1971

Grand duchies- Baden Karlsruhe 1462 1570

Grand duchies – Hesse (Hessen)

Darmstadt 853 936

Grand duchies- Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Schwerin 655 677

Grand duchies- Oldenburg

Oldenburg 317 337

Duchies- Brunswick (Braunschweig)

Braunschweig 312 349

Free Hanseatic cities - Hamburg

339 454

Imperial Territory- Alsace-Lorraine (Elsaß-Lothringen)

Straßburg 1550 1567

Other States (Anhalt, Waldeck, Schaumburg-Lippe, Lippe)

454 509

Bremen 122 157

Thuringia 1067 1170

http://www.tacitus.nu/historical-atlas/population/germany.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany#cite_note-101

Reichbank- http://everything.explained.at/Reichsbank/

http://dl.kli.re.kr/dl_image/IMG/01/000000004096/SERVICE/000000004096_01.PDF

http://www.westga.edu/~rbest/finc4521/section1/powerpoint/chap2.pdf - 25/4/2013

http://encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.sg/2010/03/gold-mark-of-imperial-germany.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_gold_mark

http://www.daggarjon.com/Currency_Germany.php

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/projects/currency.htm

http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/nmc/nmc_593_1911.pdf

http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/center/mm/eng/mm_cc_01.htm – Marshal Plan?

During the depression of 1873–96, most European countries experienced a drastic fall in prices. Still,

many corporations were able to reduce production costs and achieve better productivity rates, and,

as a result, industrial production increased by 40% in Britain and by over 100% in Germany.[citation

needed] A comparison of capital formation rates in the two countries helps to account for the

different industrial growth rates. During the depression the British ratio of net national capital

formation to net national product fell from 11.5% to 6.0% while Germany's rose from 10.6% to

15.9%.[citation needed] In essence, during the course of the depression, Britain took the course of

static supply adjustment while Germany stimulated effective demand and expanded industrial

supply capacity by increasing and adjusting capital formation. For example, Germany dramatically

increased investment with regard to social overhead capital, such as in the management of electric

power transmission lines, roads, and railroads, while this input stagnated or decreased in Britain and

the investment helped to stimulate industrial demand in Germany. The resulting difference in capital

formation accounts for the divergent levels of industrial production in the two countries and the

different growth rates during and after the depression.[36] – panic of 1873.