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Hace 2 días · Unlike his grandfather, Wilhelm I, who had been largely content to leave government affairs to the chancellor, Wilhelm II wanted to be fully informed and actively involved in running Germany, not an ornamental figurehead, although most Germans found his claims of divine right to rule amusing.
Hace 2 días · Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia was the fourth son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Prince August joined NSDAP on 1 April 1930, with the low membership number 24. In 1931, he was accepted into the SA with the rank of "Standartenführer", this rank later representing the SS ...
Hace 1 día · The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
Hace 14 horas · Altogether the Prussian-German court under Wilhelm II employed at least 3,500 officials of whom 2,320 were salaried. Together they formed a huge and prestigious body, far larger than the Prussian and Reich bureaucracy combined, with many diverse functions.
Hace 2 días · From 1888, Germany had an openly antisemitic emperor, at least in his private remarks. By 1916, in the thick of World War One, the German army commissioned a survey—the so-called Judenzählung (‘Jew count’)—to find out how many Jews were shirking military service.
Hace 4 días · Whatever Germany's motives were at different times towards the region, they cannot be understood without an appreciation of Kaiser Wilhelm II's role, as Seligmann demonstrates in his analysis of the creation and despatch of the infamous Kruger Telegram.
Hace 2 días · Kaiser Wilhelm II - the last German emperor, whose aggressive political strategy proved instrumental in initiating World War One - died on 4 June 1941. Wilhelm’s erraticism sparked fear on the ...
