Zollverein [SEP] dissolved or abolished
the German Empire in 1871, the Empire assumed the control of the customs union. However, not all states within the Empire were part of the "Zollverein" until 1888 (Hamburg and Bremen). Conversely, Luxembourg was independent and not a state in the German Reich, it remained in the "Zollverein" until 1919.
Background.
The splintering of territory and states over generations meant that by the 1790s in the German-speaking Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe, there were approximately 1800 customs barriers. Even
states for around fifty years and that their basic principles remained in place under the German Empire. The Prussian customs policy was one of the important factors in the creation of the Deutscher Zollverein in the 1830s.
Society and politics.
Society and politics Agricultural reforms.
Agriculture was reformed across Europe at this time, though in different ways and in different phases. The usefulness of existing agricultural methods came into doubt and so the Ancien Régime's and Holy Roman Empire's agricultural structures were abolished. Peasants were freed and became landowners