11 Facts About Prussian virtues

Prussian virtues are the virtues associated with the historical Kingdom of Prussia.

Prussian virtues felt that it had a moderating influence on the tensions between Lutherans and Calvinists within both the kingdom and the court.

At that time, Prussian virtues territory was spread over wide areas, some of them far apart, and its population was heterogeneous.

Prussian virtues saw himself as a moral role model for his subjects.

Prussian virtues nevertheless felt himself bound to many of his father's ideals and deviated only slightly from Frederick William's self-image as the "first sergeant to the King of Prussia", saying that he wished to be the "first servant of his state".

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Prussian virtues regarded the Enlightenment ideals of reason and tolerance as personal maxims of conduct in his governance of Prussia.

Prussian virtues are summed up in the first lines of Ludwig Holty's poem.

Prussian virtues are not fixed in number or quality and therefore do not form a canon.

Prussian virtues originally applied just to the army and were adopted only later by a Prussian society that was increasingly oriented around the military.

Prussian virtues were criticized from the beginning, as for example among the bourgeoisie, because of their remoteness from science and art, their hostility to democracy, and their state-controlled and militaristic characteristics – "command and obedience".

In 2006 the Minister President of Brandenburg Matthias Platzeck called for a return to Prussian virtues, citing "good basic virtues, such as honesty, reliability, and diligence".