From keiner.maximilian@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 29 09:25:34 2019
Hey,
there are a lot of Openings named after german cities and quite a lot of them once where states of the Holy Roman Empire. Bavaria, Westphalia and Prussia were/are regions of Germany. So there not being a German opening is down to there not being a
Germany till 1871, I'd guess.
Just listed the different Variations etc. I found on Wikipedia down below for reference.
Aachen Gambit
Bavarian Gambit
Berlin Variation
Bremen Variation
Breslau Variation (Untill the end of WWII the region of Silesia was German) Cologne Gambit
Dresden Opening
Duisburg Gambit
Frankfurt Variation
German Defense
Kiel Variation
Leipzig Gambit
Mannheim Variation
Nuremberg Variation
Prussian Game
Tübingen Gambit
Westphalia Defence
Wiesbaden Variation