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	History of Berlin
		In 1540 Joachim II introduced the Protestant Reformation in Brandenburg and confiscated church possessions; the secularization[?].
		In 1701 Friedrich III (1688-1701) crowned himself as Friedrich I (1701-1713), King in Prussia.
		His son, Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713-1740), in contrast, was a sparing man, who made Prussia an important military power.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/History_of_Berlin.html (2162 words)

	Frederick II of Prussia
		Friedrich II of Prussia, of the House of Hohenzollern, (January 24, 1712 - August 17, 1786) was more commonly known as Frederick the Great (German Friedrich der Grosse), and was king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
		He was preceded by his father Frederick William I (Friedrich Wilhelm I, the "Soldier King").
		He was succeeded by his nephew Frederick William II[?] (Friedrich Wilhelm II).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Frederick_II_of_Prussia.html (165 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Frederick William II of Prussia
		Frederick William II (September 25, 1744 - November 16, 1797), king of Prussia, was known in German as Friedrich Wilhelm II.
		Frederick William was the son of Augustus William (the second son of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia) and of Louise Amalie of Brunswick, sister of the wife of Frederick the Great.
		He was born at Berlin and became heir to the throne of Prussia on his father’s death in 1758.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/fr/Frederick_William_II_of_Prussia?title=Mark_of_Brandenburg (1337 words)

	Pommerscher Verein Freistadt > Prussia
		Emperor King Friedrich II (reign: 1740-1786), known as Papa Fritz or Friedrich the Great, won most of Silesia from Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Year War (1756-1763).
		Friedrich Wilhelm IV refused the imperial crown offered by the Frankfurt Parliament in 1849 because he wanted a German Union under Prussian leadership that would exclude Austria.
		Wilhelm I began his reign in 1858, became regent in 1861, became king in 1862, and appointed Otto von Bismarck as premier in 1862.
	pommerschervereinfreistadt.org /Prussia/tabid/93/Default.aspx (888 words)

	Descendants of Prince Albrecht Anton of Schwarzburg Rudolstadt
		Prince Friedrich Anton I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was born on 14 Aug 1692 in Rudolstadt and died on 1 Sep 1744 in Rudolstadt, at age 52.
		Friedrich married Princess Friederike of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, daughter of Prince Johann Friedrich I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Bernhardine of Saxe Weimar Eisenach, on 21 Jan 1763 in Schwarzburg.
		Prince Ludwig Friedrich II of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was born in 1767 and died in 1807, at age 40.
	www.friedrichfroebel.com /albrecht/d1.htm (2079 words)

	Hohenzollern and Habsburg - Humanities - Huron High School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1227 the Hohenzollern count Conrad III was made burgrave of Nürnberg by Friedrich II, Holy Roman emperor, and the Hohenzollerns of Nürnberg formed a new branch of the family, called the Franconian; the original line remained in Swabia.
		Friedrich Wilhelm, called The Great Elector, expanded and consolidated territory held by Brandenburg, and in 1701 his successor, Friedrich III, became Friedrich I, king of Prussia.
		Hohenzollern rule came to an end in 1918, when Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate.
	huron.aaps.k12.mi.us /classes/forlang/smith/hum/habsburg.html (1148 words)

	Wilhelm II - Last Emperor (Kaiser) of Germany
		Wilhelm was educated at Kassel at the Friedrichsgymnasium and the University of Bonn.
		Kaiser Wilhelm II died in Doorn on 5.
		Wilhelm was purported to have a sexual fetish for women with "beautiful hands," and his propensity to pursue prostitutes whose hands suited him and then neglecting to pay them for services created headaches for Herbert and Otto von Bismarck while the then Crown Prince was still under their collective wings.
	www.germannotes.com /hist_kaiser_wilhelm.shtml (779 words)

	Friedrich 'Wilhelm II' Viktor Albert von HOHENZOLLERN "Kaiser von Deuschland"
		[A] Wilhelm, the son of Emperor Frederick II and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, was born in Berlin in 1859.
		In 1888 Wilhelm II became the 9th King of Prussia and the 3rd Emperor of Germany.
		Wilhelm was Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces during the First World War.
	homepage.mac.com /james_keller/PS119/PS119_037.HTML (452 words)

	Who Was Frederick the Great? - History Forum
		Frederick II was the son of Frederick William, and was trained in the military arts from an early age.
		Friedrich is forced to defend his country for seven years against an coalition of Austria, Russia, France and Sweden, and with Great britain as ally.
		Friedrich the Great is therefore a perfect example of a statesman who´s foreign policy was guided by nothing else but his own self interest and where promises were worth nothing.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1327 (1414 words)

	Pritzl Family Journal: EHLERS Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Friedrich Wilhelm EHLERS II was born in Neuenwege, Varel, Germany 6 Jul 1853.
		Wilhelm EHLERS Bernhards was born 28 Nov 1859.
		Friedrich was born 8 Aug 1861 in Neuermberg, Germany.
	www.strato.net /~rpritzl/d1/i0003004.htm (216 words)

	The electors’ residence - Berlin.de
		The elector Friedrich II puts an end to this joint administration in 1442 in the interest of expanding his own powers.
		Elector Friedrich I of Brandenburg (1371-1440), elector from 1415 to 1440
		Friedrich II (“the Iron”) (1413-1471), elector from 1440 to 1470
	www.berlin.de /berlin-im-ueberblick/geschichte/residenzstadt.en.html (680 words)

	Worshipping Kaiser Wilhelm II
		Crown pretender is Prinz Georg Friedrich von Preußen, born in Bremen on June 10, 1976.
		Wilhelm II uring the 22 years Wilhelm II lived in the Netherlands he embarrassed the Dutch government many times.
		In the European turmoil of that time, with the Russian Czar murdered, Wilhelm II deposed of and revolutions on the verge everywhere, the kings and queens feared for the surviving of monarchy.
	www.greatwar.nl /kaiser/kaiser.html (1061 words)

	Waltraud Maierhofer
		In 1796, while Wilhelmine was in Italy, Friedrich Wilhelm II dissolved the Ritz marriage‚ and elevated her to the status of nobility, naming her Countess of Lichtenau (pre-dated to 1794), a move occasioned by the Queen of Naples‚ refusal to grant an audience to a non-aristocrat.
		Wilhelm Bringmann in his recent thorough study on Prussia under Friedrich Wilhelm II concludes that his mistress and friend was not interested in political influence (and that she might have lacked the necessary insights and connections).
		Friedrich Wilhelm, though, was extremely alienated from his family, and had suffered many years from false accusations by spies hired by his uncle.
	www.womeningerman.org /conference/2002/encke.html (3513 words)

	Bach Choir of Bethlehem
		Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784), the eldest son of J.S. Bach and his first wife; a great melodist, perhaps the most adventurous composer among Bach's sons.
		Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795), the eldest surviving son of J.S. Bach and his second wife; an outstanding virtuoso at the keyboard; wrote mostly in a similar style to his famous father, though hinting toward the galant style made famous by his brothers C.P.E. Bach and J.C. Bach.
		Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759-1845), son of J.C.F. Bach; important as a music director to Friedrich Wilhelm II and as a teacher.
	www.bach.org /bach101/about_bach/about_bach.html (1343 words)

	Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Berlin (D)
		The gate, commissioned by Friedrich Wilhelm II as a sign of peace, was built by Carl Gotthard Langhans in 1788–1791 in early Classicist style.
		When Friedrich III in 1701 was crowned King in Prussia (Friedrich I), the castle was enlarged to become a splendid residence.
		It is said that Emperor Wilhelm II from then on always took a detour when going to the castle in order to avoid passing the civil town hall.
	www.thomasgraz.net /glass/gl-091.htm (4681 words)

	Schinkel Karl Friedrich: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Karl Friedrich Lessings Royal Couple...Wieland, Goethe, and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock...of Bavaria and Karl August von Hardenberg...Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller offered...Theater which Duke Karl August of Saxe...
		Friedrich Wilhelm I, the...hundred years later, Schinkel and Peter Joseph...
		...19th-century architect, Karl Friedrich Schinkel; and the Muhlendambrucke...antiquities designed by Schinkel; the Neues Museum, under...murdered communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa...palace built by amorous Friedrich Wilhelm II for his mistress...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/schinkel_karl_friedrich.jsp (1274 words)

	Altenburg Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This Wilhelm came to America as a Hessian mercenary in 1776 to fight for the British during the revolution.
		The fact that Wilhelm's rank was that of a Private it is almost certain that his family lacked the wealth or social status needed for him to be given a commission.
		It is clear that Wilhelm could not have been the legitimate son of the Duke.
	www.altenburgs.com /gene/duke.htm (1144 words)

	Hegel - MSN Encarta
		Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German idealist philosopher, who became one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century.
		Hegel was born in Stuttgart on August 27, 1770, the son of a revenue officer with the civil service.
		There he developed friendships with the poet Friedrich Hölderlin and the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552560_1____4/Hegel_Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich.html (1165 words)

	Wilhelm II of Germany
		Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and German Kaiser, born 27 January 1859 in Berlin, died 5 June 1941 at
		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.
		The outbreak of war did occasion one of Wilhelm's best speeches, his "Burgfrieden" (Peace of the Castle) speech in which he rallied all Germans to sublimate internal politics to the prosecution of the war.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/hornton/890/WilhelmII.html (766 words)

	Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity.
		In the small German town of Röcken bei Lützen, located in a rural farmland area southwest of Leipzig, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born at approximately 10:00am on October 15, 1844.
		The date coincided with the 49th birthday of the Prussian King, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, after whom Nietzsche was named, and who had been responsible for Nietzsche's father's appointment as Röcken's town minister.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/nietzsche (4713 words)

	The Morning Leader : Matiida's Page
		It was under Friedrich Wilhelm that construction of this cultural landscape began with the baroque city palace in Potsdam.
		But it was King Friedrich II (1740-1786) who enhanced the architectural status of Potsdam with many beautiful buildings, and in 1745 started work on his most famous creation, the park and palace of Sans-Souci.
		The succeeding King Friedrich Wilhelm II transformed some farmland north of Potsdam on the shore of a lake into the New Garden in English style and had the simple Marble Palace built there in 1787-1797.
	www.themorningleader.lk /20060705/life.html (1567 words)

	German royalty -- royal homes
		King Friedrich Wilhelm II transformed farmland north of Potsdam on the shore of a lake into the New Garden.
		King Friedrich Wilhelm II, inspired by his wife, built a palace near the New Garden and a romantic looking palace, built to look like it was an old run-dowm palace.
		Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1840-1961) made many improvements and extensions to the gardens and west of it on a hill, he built the Pfingstberg palace as a viewpoint.
	histclo.com /royal/ger/rh/rh-ger.htm (784 words)

	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer Biography \| World of Chemistry
		Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a German organic chemist best known for synthesizing a wide variety of important compounds, including barbituric acid and indigo.
		Baeyer attended the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin, where he assisted his science teacher with chemistry lectures.
		In 1885, King Ludwig II of Bavaria made Baeyer a member of the nobility, allowing him to add the honorific "von" to his name.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/johann-friedrich-wilhelm-adolf-von-baeyer-woc (993 words)

	thePeerage.com - unnamed daughter von Hohenzollern and others
		She was the daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm II König von Preußen and Wilhelmine Enke.
		Kaspar von Miaskowski married Marianne Gräfin von der Marck, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm II König von Preußen and Wilhelmine Enke, in 1801.
		He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm II König von Preußen and Juliane Gräfin von Donhoff.
	www.thepeerage.com /p6752.htm (474 words)

	Worldroots.com
		Wilhelm von D”nhoff and Freiin Anna Sophie Charlotte von
		Wilhelm II, Kurf?rst von Hessen, son of Wilhelm IX-I, Kurf?rst von Hessen and Princess Caroline of Denmark and
		Wilhelm von Massenbach and Amalie Henriette von Gualtieri
	worldroots.com /brigitte/famous/f/friedwilh2prussiadesc.htm (562 words)

	Otto von Below (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Friedrich Wilhelm II's extravagance, however, left a ruined exchequer.
		He was a patron of the arts and an amateur cellist, with Mozart dedicating three string quartets to him.
		He was succeeded by his son, Friedrich Wilhelm III.
	home.comcast.net /~maviser/fw2.htm (138 words)

	Potsdam, World Heritage List (1997) No. C 532
		Elector Friedrich Wilhelm initiated the transformation with the construction of the baroque city palace in Potsdam were he signed his famous refugee edict in 1685.
		It was king Friedrich II (1740-1786) who beautified the town through many representative buildings and in 1745 started work on his most famous creation, the park and palace of Sanssouci.
		The succeeding king Friedrich Wilhelm II transformed some farmland north of Potsdam on the shore of a lake into the New Garden in English style and had the modest Marble Palace built in it in 1787-1797.
	www.geog.fu-berlin.de /eurocis/whl/c532potsdam.shtml (774 words)

	thePeerage.com - Friedrich von Sachsen-Altenburg and others
		She married Friedrich Wilhelm II Herzog von Sachsen-Altenburg, son of Friedrich Wilhelm I Herzog von Sachsen-Altenburg and Anna Maria, on 18 September 1638 in Altenburg, Germany.
		Friedrich Wilhelm III Herzog von Sachsen-Altenburg was born on 12 July 1657 in Altenburg, Germany.
		She married Friedrich I Kurfürst von Sachsen, son of Friedrich III Markgraf von Meißen and Catherine von Henneberg-Schleusingen, on 7 February 1402.
	www.thepeerage.com /p732.htm (568 words)

	Wilhelm II - Cambridge University Press
		Bernhard, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (brother-in-law of Wilhelm II) 176, 322, 458, 459, 513, 562, 570, 620, 621, 633, 635–8, 651, 853
		Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 127, 636, 651, 653, 1064
		Wilhelm I (German Kaiser, King of Prussia; grandfather of Wilhelm II) 4, 16, 21, 23, 24, 26, 48, 63, 137, 160, 162, 164, 257, 290, 308, 319, 388, 402, 412, 459, 507, 526, 563, 568, 611, 691, 692, 709, 807, 916, 1001, 1065
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521819202&ss=ind (9847 words)

	Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Summary
		Steuben was born at Magdeburg, Prussia, the son of Wilhelm Augustine Steuben (1699-1783), a lieutenant of engineers.
		After the accession of Frederick II of Prussia to the throne, Steuben returned to Germany with his father in 1740.
		In World War I the captured German ship Kronprinz Wilhelm was renamed as the USS Baron von Steuben, and in World War II there was the Dampfschiff (DS) General von Steuben, an ill-fated German luxury passenger ship which was turned into an armed transport ship during the war.
	www.bookrags.com /Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben (2421 words)

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