Schleswig-Holstein Question

See also: Schleswig-Holstein question

English

Proper noun

the Schleswig-Holstein Question

1. (historical) The question of which state(s) possessed, or should possess, control over (which parts of) Schleswig-Holstein.

Usage notes

• Lytton Strachey, calling "the dreadful Schleswig-Holstein question […] the most complex in the whole diplomatic history of Europe", wrote that the British statesman Henry John Temple (Lord Palmerston) had once remarked that "Only three people […] have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business—the Prince Consort, who is dead—a German professor, who has gone mad—and I, who have forgotten all about it."

See also

• (questions of history) national question; Adriatic Question, Armenian Question, Black Question, Eastern Question, German Question, Irish Question, Jewish Question, Karelian Question, Polish Question, Roman Question, Schleswig-Holstein Question