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Originally Posted by roguebfl
One option is German manged to guard the development of the printing press, and limited it to printing German language only publications. And maintained this long enough to to keep an edge in the age of enlightenment such the other nation need to learn German much like they do now with English.
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Interesting idea, but guarding the secret of new inventions is notoriously hard. Making the invention come a little earlier and in a more stolidly German area (the areas next to the Rhine just begged for easy proliferation). Making the press an Austrian or East German invention would slow its spread into the Netherlands, France and England. It might also be a good idea to have its secret protected by an important noble, bishop or merchant house.
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With the stronger emphasis on trade WWI is avoided. Without being dragged into A war in Europe the Romanovs can concentrate on domestic issues and undergoes Reform rather than Revolution.
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I'm not quite sure where you are going with this. Global trade was at its height before WWI. In fact, the global economy did not regain this level of interconnectedness until the 1970s. If you mean that a trade-oriented Germany would have seen how things like arms races and territorial expansion negatively a nation then yes that should be hoped for.