The following List of German Confederation member states shows those states that in 1815 were part of the German Confederation, which lasted, with some changes in the member states, until 1866.

1. The Empire of Austria (without Galicia, Hungary, Transylvania, Bukowina, Lombardy-Venetia, Dalmatia and Croatia)
   1. Austria (split into Upper Austria and Lower Austria in 1849)
   2. Bohemia
   3. Carinthia
   4. Carniola
   5. Gorizia and Gradisca
   6. Istria
   7. Moravia
   8. Salzburg
   9. Silesia
   10. Styria
   11. Trieste
   12. Tyrol
   13. Vorarlberg
2. The Kingdom of Prussia (without Posen, East Prussia and West Prussia)
   1. Brandenburg
   2. Pomerania
   3. Rheinland (until 1822, Niederrhein and Jülich-Kleve-Berg )
   4. Saxony
   5. Silesia
   6. Westphalia
3. The Kingdom of Bavaria
4. The Kingdom of Saxony
5. The Kingdom of Hanover
6. The Kingdom of Württemberg
7. The Grand Duchy of Baden
8. The Electorate of Hesse-Kassel
9. The Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
10. The Duchy of Holstein (and Schleswig, from 1848)
11. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
12. The Duchy of Limburg (from 1839)
13. The Duchy of Brunswick
14. The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
15. The Duchy of Nassau
16. The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
17. The Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (to 1825)
18. The Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from 1826)
19. The Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen
20. The Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen (Saxe-Altenburg from 1826)
21. The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
22. The Duchy of Oldenburg (Grand Duchy from 1829)
23. The Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau (Duchy of Anhalt from 1863)
24. The Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg (to 1863)
25. The Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen (to 1847)
26. The Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
27. The Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
28. The Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (to 1850)
29. The Principality of Liechtenstein
30. The Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (to 1850)
31. The Principality of Waldeck
32. The Principality of Reuß Senior Line
33. The Principality of Reuß Junior Line
34. The Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
35. The Principality of Lippe
36. The Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg (from 1817)
37. The Duchy of Lauenburg
38. The Free City of Lübeck
39. The Free City of Frankfurt am Main
40. The Free City of Bremen
41. The Free City of Hamburg