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 | | Under the guise of training him for his future royal duties, Bismarck sought to mold Wilhelm into a conservative foil against his father's so-called liberalism. | | | His zeal and spirit seemed to wane with Germany's military progress and, browbeaten into a number of disastrous cabinet appointments by Ludendorff, his popularity plummeted. | | | A stronger indictment emerges from Wilhelm's hesitancy to halt the apparatus of war as it lurched towards the brink, propelled by mobilization plans and timetables. |
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| | Wilhelm II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On the death of Wilhelm I on March 9, 1888, his father was crowned Emperor as Friedrich III but he was dying of throat cancer, and in June that same year Wilhelm II succeeded him as Emperor. | | | Wilhelm II of Germany (born Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Preußen 27 January 1859–4 June 1941), was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia, ruling from 1888 to 1918. | | | Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles expressly provided for the prosecution of Wilhelm as a war criminal, but Queen Wilhelmina refused to extradite him, despite appeals from the Allies. |
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| | Germany's Last Kaiser - Wilhelm II and political decision-making in Imperial Germany |
| | For a briefer, English account of the events of 27 January 1859, see Röhl, 'Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Suitable Case for Treatment?' in The Kaiser and his Court, Cambridge 1994. | | | After the war, the victorious allies were in no doubt that Wilhelm II was personally responsible for the coming of war in 1914, and they included him on their list of war criminals wanted in connection with the atrocities of the war and the suffering that it had brought to millions of soldiers and civilians. | | | Essays in Honour of Derek Beales, Cambridge, 1996; Isabel Hull, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918, Cambridge, 1982; Thomas A. Kohut, Wilhelm II and the Germans. |
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| | BBC - History - Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) |
| | Wilhelm was the eldest child of Crown Prince Frederick (later Emperor Frederick III) and Victoria. | | | Responsible for government appointments and commander in chief of the armed forces, Wilhelm was the only person in Germany who could ensure that military and diplomatic policies were in tune. | | | Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, Wilhelm encouraged the Austrians to adopt an uncompromising line but lost his nerve and was unable to stop his generals mobilising their forces. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilhelm_kaiser_ii.shtml
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II |
| | The Kaiser and his Court : Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany by John C. Röhl | | | Praised for a thoughtful reassessment of Frederick the Great in his previous book, Giles MacDonogh tackles another controversial figure in German history, Kaiser Wilhelm II. | | | Wilhelm's withered left arm, the result of incompetent obstetricians and seen by Freud as the source of the emperor's compulsion to prove his masculinity, was actually only a slight handicap that Wilhelm overcame with great strength of character, attests MacDonogh. |
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| | Wilhelm II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On the death of Wilhelm I on March 9, 1888, his father was crowned Emperor as Friedrich III but he was dying of throat cancer, and in June that same year Wilhelm II succeeded him as Emperor. | | | Wilhelm II of Germany (born Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Preußen 27 January 1859–4 June 1941), was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia, ruling from 1888 to 1918. | | | Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles expressly provided for the prosecution of Wilhelm as a war criminal, but Queen Wilhelmina refused to extradite him, despite appeals from the Allies. |
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| | Hohenzollern: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | He was succeeded by Frederick III (1888) and by William II (reigned 1888â1918), whose instability and ambition contributed to the involvement of Germany in World War I; his abdication ended the family's rule in Germany. | | | Frederick William II (reigned 1786â97), Frederick William III (reigned 1797â1840), and Frederick William IV (reigned 1840â61) were mediocre rulers; their ministers were more important in the history of Prussia. | | | Friedrich II of Prussia "Frederick the Great" (1740-1786) |
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| | Kaiser Wilhelm II & World War I |
| | Wilhelm II was convinced of his divine right to rule, and was not prepared to play a passive role alongside Bismarck as his grandfather Wilhelm I had done. | | | The first major political move for Wilhelm II was his decision to force Bismarck to resign in 1890; the Chancellor was 79 years old at this time, while Wilhelm II was only 29. | | | Wars in 1864, 1866 and 1871 respectively against Denmark, Austria and France, eventually leading to the creation of a united Germany, had created a precarious diplomatic situation. |
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| | German royalty -- Kaiser Wilhelm II William II |
| | Wilhelm was the eldest son of the Crown Prince (whom reined briefly as Frederick III) and the Princess Victoria (English Princess Royal, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter. | | | Wilhelm's private comments about his family and belicose public comments on diplomatic incident well as his decisssion to build a navy to challenge England were major factors in changing England from viewing Prussia/Germany as an ally against France to seeing Germany as England's principal adversary requiring a raprochment with France. | | | Wilhelm remaired to Princess Hermine of Schönaich-Carolath in 1921. |
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| | Wilhelm was an ambitious, insecure and troublesome man. Hew didn't keep mournig for bhis father assiting to continuos ceremonies and traveling to all parts of Germany and abroad, fact which infuriated his grandmother, Queen Victoria. | | | At his death on June 15, 1888 his elder son became Kaiser Wilhelm II When his father died Wilhelm inmediately sent his soldiers to surround the palace, forbidding everyone to leave, his mother included, because he wnted to find his father's private papers; he find nothing because Vicky had taken them already to Windsor. | | | In 1888, Emperor Wilhelm I died and his son suceeded him as as Frederick III. |
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| | Kaiser Wilhelm II & World War I |
| | Wilhelm II was convinced of his divine right to rule, and was not prepared to play a passive role alongside Bismarck as his grandfather Wilhelm I had done. | | | The first major political move for Wilhelm II was his decision to force Bismarck to resign in 1890; the Chancellor was 79 years old at this time, while Wilhelm II was only 29. | | | Bismarcks foreign policy required a very competent successor to ensure that Germany could maintain its treaties and continue to isolate France. |
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| | The Kaiser's Heir: Prince Louis-Ferdinand of Prussia (1907-1994) |
| | He was asked by his grandfather, Kaiser Wilhelm II, to return to Germany and begin preparation for his future task as head of the Hohenzollern dynasty. | | | As a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Louis-Ferdinand was placed third in the line of succession behind his father, Crown Prince Friedrich-Wilhelm, and his elder brother Prince Wilhelm, born in 1906. | | | Since Kaiser Wilhelm II died in 1941, the head of the Prussian imperial family was Crown Prince Friedrich-Wilhelm, but since he had flirted with the Nazis in the 1930's, conspirators ignored him and centered on Louis-Ferdinand to serve as Hitler's successor. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Sophie Chotek |
| | Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Pope Leo XIII all made representations to Franz Josef on Franz Ferdinand's behalf arguing that the disagreement was undermining the stability of the monarchy. | | | Wilhelm II German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany had a very small one in the pants, so he required a huge army to restore his manhood and make him look like a big man for his wife. | | | Tsar Nicholas II (18 May 1868 to 17 July 1918)1 was the last crowned Emperor of Russia. |
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| | Wilhelm II - Cambridge University Press |
| | Kaiser Wilhelm II (18591941) ruled Imperial Germany from his accession in 1888 to his enforced abdication in 1918 at the end of the First World War. | | | The predictable disaster: Wilhelm II and the public soul of Germany; 21. | | | • A further volume in John Röhls life of Kaiser Wilhem II, one of the supreme biographical undertakings of modern times |
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| | Germany's Last Kaiser - Wilhelm II and political decision-making in Imperial Germany |
| | For a briefer, English account of the events of 27 January 1859, see Röhl, 'Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Suitable Case for Treatment?' in The Kaiser and his Court, Cambridge 1994. | | | After the war, the victorious allies were in no doubt that Wilhelm II was personally responsible for the coming of war in 1914, and they included him on their list of war criminals wanted in connection with the atrocities of the war and the suffering that it had brought to millions of soldiers and civilians. | | | Essays in Honour of Derek Beales, Cambridge, 1996; Isabel Hull, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918, Cambridge, 1982; Thomas A. Kohut, Wilhelm II and the Germans. |
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| | RULERS OF GERMANY (DEUTSCHLAND) |
| | WILHELM II Son of Albrecht I; in Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel 1289 | | | Son of Benno of Northeim; married Richza, daughter of Otto II of Swabia, son of Ezzo of Lothringen by Mathilde, daughter of Otto II of Germany; deposed, died 1083 | | | Son of Wilhelm V; Elector from 1623, died 1651 |
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| | Wilhelm II |
| | Wilhelm II Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and German Kaiser, born 27 January 1859 in Berlin, died 5 June 1941 at Doorn in The Netherlands. | | | Under the guise of training him for his future royal duties, Bismarck sought to mold Wilhelm into a conservative foil against his father's so-called liberalism. | | | His zeal and spirit seemed to wane with Germany's military progress and, browbeaten into a number of disastrous cabinet appointments by Ludendorff, his popularity plummeted. |
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| | In 1888 Wilhelm II became the 9th King of Prussia and the 3rd Emperor of Germany. | | | Wilhelm, the son of Emperor Frederick II and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, was born in Berlin in 1859. | | | Wilhelm was Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces during the First World War. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Wilhelm II: Volume 2: Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941 |
| | Callous, vain, easily bored and exceedingly foolish, Wilhelm II, the last German kaiser, was an isolated narcissist who preferred hunting or yachting on Norway's fjords to affairs of state. | | | This is the gold standard of Kaiser Wilhelm II biographies. | | | One of the most critically acclaimed studies of Wilhelm II is Lamar Cecil's two-volume biography (1989, 1996), deemed by one reviewer as 'the best-available English treatment of the waning years of the last Kaiser' available. |
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| | German Empire - Open Encyclopedia |
| | The term German Empire (the translation from German of Deutsches Reich) commonly refers to Germany, from its consolidation as a unified nation-state in January 1871, until the abdication of Kaiser (Emperor) Wilhelm II in November 1918. | | | The Kaiser Wilhelm II was driven into exile (November 1918) by a revolution led by elements of the opposition SPD and communist groups, who later organised their own abortive bid for power (January 1919). | | | Finally, France was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1); the Confederation was transformed into the Empire with the crowning of Prussian King Wilhelm I as German Emperor at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French. |
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| | The Kaiser's Heir: Prince Louis-Ferdinand of Prussia (1907-1994) |
| | As a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Louis-Ferdinand was placed third in the line of succession behind his father, Crown Prince Friedrich-Wilhelm, and his elder brother Prince Wilhelm, born in 1906. | | | Prince Louis-Ferdinand of Prussia was the son of Crown Prince Friedrich-Wilhelm and Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich-Franz III and Grand Duchess Anastasia, née Grand Duchess Anastasia Michaelovna of Russia. | | | Since Kaiser Wilhelm II died in 1941, the head of the Prussian imperial family was Crown Prince Friedrich-Wilhelm, but since he had flirted with the Nazis in the 1930's, conspirators ignored him and centered on Louis-Ferdinand to serve as Hitler's successor. |
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| | Wilhelm was an ambitious, insecure and troublesome man. Hew didn't keep mournig for bhis father assiting to continuos ceremonies and traveling to all parts of Germany and abroad, fact which infuriated his grandmother, Queen Victoria. | | | At his death on June 15, 1888 his elder son became Kaiser Wilhelm II When his father died Wilhelm inmediately sent his soldiers to surround the palace, forbidding everyone to leave, his mother included, because he wnted to find his father's private papers; he find nothing because Vicky had taken them already to Windsor. | | | In 1888, Emperor Wilhelm I died and his son suceeded him as as Frederick III. |
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| | First World War.com - Primary Documents - Kaiser Wilhelm II's Abdication Proclamation, 28 November 1918 |
| | In the wake of the Kaiser's abdication his eldest son - Crown Prince Wilhelm - expressed a desire on 11 November 1918- the date of the armistice - to be allowed to lead his army back home to Germany. | | | Primary Documents: Kaiser Wilhelm II's Abdication Proclamation, 28 November 1918 | | | Wilhelm's abdication was announced by Chancellor Prince Max von Baden in a 9 November 1918 proclamation - before Wilhelm had in fact consented to abdicate (but after Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann had announced the Kaiser's departure from the balcony of the Reichstag). |
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| | In 1888, Emperor Wilhelm I died and his son suceeded him as as Frederick III. | | | Wilhelm was an ambitious, insecure and troublesome man. Hew didn't keep mournig for bhis father assiting to continuos ceremonies and traveling to all parts of Germany and abroad, fact which infuriated his grandmother, Queen Victoria. | | | At his death on June 15, 1888 his elder son became Kaiser Wilhelm II When his father died Wilhelm inmediately sent his soldiers to surround the palace, forbidding everyone to leave, his mother included, because he wnted to find his father's private papers; he find nothing because Vicky had taken them already to Windsor. |
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| | BBC - History - Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) |
| | Wilhelm was the eldest child of Crown Prince Frederick (later Emperor Frederick III) and Victoria. | | | Responsible for government appointments and commander in chief of the armed forces, Wilhelm was the only person in Germany who could ensure that military and diplomatic policies were in tune. | | | Crown Prince Frederick died shortly afterwards and, aged just 29, Wilhelm became Kaiser. |
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| | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| | In 1888 Wilhelm II became the 9th King of Prussia and the 3rd Emperor of Germany. | | | Wilhelm, the son of Emperor Frederick II and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, was born in Berlin in 1859. | | | Kaiser Wilhelm II after a meeting with him on 5th July 1914. |
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| | Imperial Germany, Kaiser Reich, WWI, Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II |
| | This is the personal pair of cufflinks of Germany's most colorful emperor, Wilhelm II (1859-1941), who became Germany's Emperor and King of Prussia upon the death of his father Emperor Friedrich III. | | | The front has the image of Kaiser Frederick of Prussia, who was the Father of Wilhelm II. | | | On one side it says: Wilhelm II German Kaiser and Emperor of Prussia. On the obverse it says: 5 Marks and German Empire (1907). In the center the gorgeous Imperial eagle is wearing the crown of Prussia. |
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