Why didn't Liechtenstein join the German Empire?

The only time when it could have possibly done that was after Austria was annexed by the German empire - before that it didn't share any border with it. read more

The only time when it could have possibly done that was after Austria was annexed by the German empire - before that it didn't share any border with it. After the Annexation, the monarch Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, being against the Nazis, showed no intention of joining the Reich. read more

The country is named after its prince, not the other way round. The ancestral Liechtenstein Castle is in the suburbs of Vienna. When the Empire dissolved following defeat by Napoleon in 1806, Liechtenstein, like the other states, became technically fully sovereign, and so it has remained. read more

Also, the ties between Austria and the other States of the German Federation weakened quite a bit before 1866, take for example that Austria didn't become part of the German Zollverein. Apart from that I'd agree that Bavaria was under huge pressure. read more