Kingdom of Saxony

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Kingdom of Saxony Königreich Sachsen (German)
1806–1918
Top: Flag of Saxony (1815-1918) Bottom: Flag of Saxony (1806-1815) Coat of arms
Motto: Providentiae Memor (Latin for 'Providence Remember')
Anthem: Gott segne Sachsenland (1815) Sachsenlied ("Gott sei mit dir mein Sachsenland", 1842)
The Kingdom of Saxony within the German Empire
Status	State of the Confederation of the Rhine (1806–1813) State of the German Confederation (1815–1866) State of the North German Confederation (1867–1871) Federal state of the German Empire (1871–1918)
Capital	Dresden
Common languages	Standard German (written; educated speech) Upper Saxon German (colloquial) Upper Sorbian (in Upper Lusatia)
Religion	Lutheran (state religion),[1] but monarchs were Catholic
Demonym(s)	Saxon
Government	Absolute monarchy (until 1831) Constitutional monarchy (from 1831)
King
• 1806–1827	Frederick Augustus I (first)
• 1904–1918	Frederick Augustus III (last)
Minister-President
• 1831–1843	Bernhard von Lindenau (first)
• 1918	Rudolf Heinze (last)
Legislature	Landtag (1831–1918)
• Upper Chamber	"First Chamber"
• Lower Chamber	"Second Chamber"
Historical era	Napoleonic Wars / WWI
• Treaty of Poznań: Electorate joined the Confederation of the Rhine	11 December 1806
• Electorate raised to Kingdom	20 December 1806
• Treaties of Tilsit: annexed Cottbus [de]; union with Duchy of Warsaw	9 July 1807
• Occupied by Prussia	1813
• Final Act of the Congress of Vienna	9 June 1815
• Member of the North German Confederation	1866
• State of the German Empire	1 January 1871
• Frederick Augustus III abdicates	13 November 1918
• Free State established	1 November 1920
Currency	Saxon thaler (1806–1857) Saxon vereinsthaler (1857–1873) German gold mark (1873–1914) German Papiermark (1914–1918)
Preceded by Succeeded by Electorate of Saxony Weimar Saxony Province of Saxony
Today part of	Germany Poland

The Kingdom of Saxony (German: Königreich Sachsen) was a German monarchy that existed in Central Europe between 1806 to 1918. The territory of the Kingdom comprised from the former Electorate of Saxony. A member of historical confederacies, it joined the Confederation of the Rhine after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, later joining the German Confederation after Napoleon was defeated in 1815. From 1871, it was part of the German Empire. It became a free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War I and the abdication of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Its capital was the city of Dresden, and its modern successor state is the Free State of Saxony.