Prince Metternich does not resign in 1848

Prince Klemens von Metternich served as Chancellor of the Austrian Empire from 1821 until he was forced to resign in 1848.
Suppose Prince Metternich does not have to resign in 1848. What happens then?
 
I would imagine you would have to butterfly the 1848 Revolutions, which is damn hard considering it had been brewing since the end of the Napoleonic wars. Maybe the secret police get wind of the revolts and they aren't as bad?
 
Suppose Prince Metternich does not have to resign in 1848. What happens then?

Considering that his resignation was one of the demands uniting the Austrian, Czech and Hungarian revolutionaries (the Italians obviously desired independence no matter what), if Metternich didn't resign then the Habsburgs would have had to prepare themselves to suppressing the revolutions with force, at the phase where the revolters were at their most motivated.

Of course, there were still loyal forces at the beck and call of the Habsburgs (Radetzsky and Jelacic, for example), but having to storm Vienna, Prague and Budapest would still be more than a challenge for the Austrian army. Maybe the Habsburgs call for an even earlier Russian intervention?
 
Of course, there were still loyal forces at the beck and call of the Habsburgs (Radetzsky and Jelacic, for example), but having to storm Vienna, Prague and Budapest would still be more than a challenge for the Austrian army. Maybe the Habsburgs call for an even earlier Russian intervention?

Would that be politically possible? I mean, it's kind of hard to have foreign allies siege (and quite possibly sack) your capital for you and still pretend you're a Great Power.
 
Would that be politically possible? I mean, it's kind of hard to have foreign allies siege (and quite possibly sack) your capital for you and still pretend you're a Great Power.

Russian fears of revolutionary contagion prompted them to intervene OTL in Hungary so I don't see why they couldn't go the extra mile into Bohemia and Austria.

Of course, Russian troops crushing what was viewed as a pan-German movement would not go down well with publics in the German Confederation... on the other hand, it could be the steadying pill needed for the various princes (esp. Prussia) to resist revolution.
 
The way this is written, I assume everything is OTL right up until the outbreak of revolution--no change of course earlier.

So the only thing I can think of is complete capitulation. Withdrawal from Italy. Compromise with Hungary. Constitution in Austria. Whether he can pull it off is doubtful. Abandonment of Italy was unpopular in the army.
 
I think complete capitulation would just hasten him being removed, especially abandoning Italy, given its unpopularity as stated.

The only ways to keep Metternich are for either him to engineer a Compromise Constitution which is accepted by everyone, perhaps not embraced, but accepted, or for there to be a total victory on the part of the Austrian Military.

I think the former is more likely, but the latter isn't necessarily impossible. The Austrian Military managed to smash in the Italian's Faces so hard the King of Sardinia was forced to Abdicate and his successor had to run to Mommy France to stand even the slightest chance against Austria.

But yeah the Former is more likely. If Austria were to officially declare their support for granting the Nationalities that were counter-revolting against the Hungarian Revolutionaries their own states within the Empire, plus some constitutional concessions marketed as part of a comprehensive reform, I think that would give them enough support that they could pretty easily put down the Hungarians and restore Order.
 
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