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  Wilhelm I of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilhelm I of Germany (In English: William I), (March 22, 1797 March 9, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser), ruled January 18, 1871 1888 and king of Prussia, ruled 1861–1888.
On January 2, 1861 Friedrich Wilhelm died and Wilhelm ascended the throne as Wilhelm I of Prussia.
In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War Wilhelm was proclaimed German Emperor on January 18, 1871 in Versailles, in the palace of Louis XIV.
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 Wilhelm II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern (January 27, 1859–June 4, 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia, ruling from 1888 to 1918.
Wilhelm was educated at Kassel at the Friedrichsgymnasium and the University of Bonn.
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.
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 Wilhelm II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Wilhelm was somehow involved in the scandal of his aide and friend, Philipp Prince zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld, which revealed homosexual activities in the Kaiser's inner circle (the Harden-Eulenburg Affair).
Wilhelm apparently harboured hopes that the Nazis would revive the monarchy (as long as its leader, Adolf Hitler, was willing to entertain such), but when this did not happen, his opinion of Hitler became very low, although he did share Hitler's vision of German Nationalism.
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As Wilhelm began to grow to manhood, his grandfather, the German Emperor Wilhelm I, decided to put him appart from his mother liberal influence and that he should begin the military aspect of his preparation for the throne, so Wilhelm was assigned as a liutenant to the First Regiment of Foot Guards.
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.
Wilhelm supported the opinions of his Chief of the Army, General Alfred von Waldersee and of Baron von Holstein, that Russia was a potencial menace for German security.
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 Kaiser Wilhelm I, Emperor in Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, 1797 - 1888, served on Blucher's staff at the Battle of Waterloo, became Regent of Prussia in 1857 and King on the death of his brother, King Friederich Wilhelm V, in January, 1861.
Wilhelm's primary interests were the Army and hunting.
Wilhelm seems to have considered the Army to be, not a tool of statecraft but his own personal collection of toy soldiers, and he didn't want to take any risks with them.
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 Learn more about Wilhelm II of Germany in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Hohenzollern (January 27, 1859 - June 5, 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia from 1888 - 1918.
Wilhelm was educated at Kassel Gymnasium and the University of Bonn.
Kaiser Wilhelm II died in Doorn on June 5, 1941 with the German occupiers on guard at the gates of his estate.
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 Station Information - Wilhelm I of Germany
As second son of Friedrich Wilhelm III Wilhelm had no expectations to ascend to the throne.
As soon as Bismarck was appointed Wilhelm withdrew from internal politics, which were left to Bismarck, and he concentrated on foreign politics.
Wilhelm was proclaimed German Emperor on January 18, 1871 in Versailles, in the palace of Louis XIV.
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 Encyclopedia: Wilhelm-II-of-Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wilhelm I of Germany (In English: William I), (March 22, 1797 –; March 9, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser), ruled January 18, 1871 –; 1888 and king of Prussia, ruled 1861–1888.
Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia, known as Prince Heinrich (August 14, 1862 in Berlin –; April 20, 1929 in Hemmelmark, Schleswig-Holstein) was a younger brother of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany.
Map of Germany showing Kassel Watershed of the river Weser Kassel [ˈkasl̩] (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated along the Fulda River, one of the two sources of the Weser river, in northern Hesse in west-central Germany.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Crown Prince Wilhelm
Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951) was born in Potsdam on 6 May 1882, the eldest of Kaiser Wilhelm II's five sons.
Wilhelm was promoted later that year, in September 1916, to become head of the newly-created 'Army Group Crown Prince', which comprised the three armies occupying the central section of the German line.
Both Wilhelm II and the Crown Prince were signatories of the the formal abdication document.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Germany's last Kaiser, was born in Potsdam in 1859, the son of Frederick III and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria.
Wilhelm was an overtly militaristic man, and believed fervently in increasing the strength of Germany's armed forces.
Wilhelm opposed the replacement of Erich Falkenhayn with Paul von Hindenburg in August 1916, but the dismissal of Falkenhayn took place nonetheless.
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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.
When Germany, the sole European nation with the industrial capability to rival England's naval dominance, began to construct a large, modern fleet, England's reaction was predictable.
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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 Germany's Last Kaiser - Wilhelm II and political decision-making in Imperial Germany
The Prince, named Wilhelm, like his grandfather who was King of Prussia and would become German Emperor in 1871, was to rule Germany for 30 years, from 1888 until his abdication and flight to the Netherlands in November 1918.
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.
Wilhelm, having fled Germany in November 1918, had been given refuge in the Netherlands and was able to stay there despite the allies' request of extradition.
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 Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Prussia (6 May 1882 - 20 July 1951), Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst Kronprinz von Preussen, was born 6 May 1882 at, Potsdam, Germany.
He was the son of Wilhelm II of Germany (1859-1941) and his first wife Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Augustenburg (1858-1921).
There was some discussion of his running in the 1932 presidential election, as the candidate of the, but his father refused to allow it, and he passed up the opportunity, ultimately endorsing Hitler.
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 Wilhelm I of Germany -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wilhelm I, (March 22, 1797 - March 9, 1888), (A person of German nationality) German (The male ruler of an empire) Emperor (Kaiser), ruled January 18, 1871-1888 and (A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom) king of (A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland) Prussia, ruled 1861-1888.
In 1857 Friedrich Wilhelm IV suffered from a ((sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand) stroke and became mentally disabled for the rest of his life.
He nevertheless found a conservative solution for the conflict: he appointed (German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)) Otto von Bismarck to the office of Prime Minister.
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 German royalty: Wilhelm I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wilhelm was born in 1797 at the palace in Berlin.
Wilhelm on January 18, 1871 was proclaimed Wilhelm I (William I), Emperor (Kaiser) of Germany.
Wilhelm's first son, Friederich (later Friederich III), was born in 1831 at Potsdam before it was apparent that his father would become king, let along lead the unification of a German state.
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 WILHELM II OF GERMANY FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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.
The unreality of this claim showed up when, for the sake of political unity, Wilhelm's abdication both as Kaiser of the German Empire and King of Prussia was abruptly announced by Chancellor Prince Max_von_Baden on November_9, 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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 Detailed Country Profile: Germany
Germany is a country in Western Europe and member of the European Union.
In 1949 it was split in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945.
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 Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany Had Plan To Take New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
(Reuters) - Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm had drawn up detailed plans in 1900 for an invasion of the United States centered on attacks on New York City and Boston, according to documents in a military archive published on Thursday.
Beginning in 1897, a German navy lieutenant named Eberhard von Mantey was assigned the task of preparing an invasion of the United States after German and American interests had collided in the Pacific.
Chief of staff Alfred von Schlieffen, who planned Germany's invasion of France in World War One, was skeptical about the idea of attacking the United States, 3,000 sea miles away.
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 Wilhelm II of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Historians are divided on whether such a mental incapacity may have contributed to his frequently aggressive, tactless, headstrong and occasionally bullying approach to problems and people, which was evident in both his personal and political lives.
Such approach certainly marred Germany policy under his leadership, most notably in his dismissal of his cautious chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, while he had a strikingly poor relationship with his mother.
Blakeborough, and which her garter of wheaten and oaten straws about her left leg and the reader may find much that is interesting in the singing-games, verses and faiths of the county.
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 Wilhelm I of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
[[Image Link]] Wilhelm I, (March 22, 1797 - March 9, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser), ruled January 18, 1871-1888 and king of Prussia, ruled 1861-1888.
This Empire was a federal state; the emperor was head of state and president (primus inter pares) of the federated monarchs (the kings of Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Saxony, the grand dukes of Baden and Hessen, and so on, not to forget the senates of the free cities of Hamburg and Bremen).
Wilhelm accepted the title "German Emperor" gruntingly; he would have preferred "Emperor of Germany", which however was unacceptable to the federated monarchs.
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 Wilhelm I of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wilhelm I, (March 22, 1797 - March 9, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser), ruled January 18, 1871-1888 and king of Prussia, ruled 1861-1888.
This Empire was a federal state; the emperor was head of state and president (primus inter pares) of the federated monarchs (the kings of Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Saxony, the grand dukes of Baden and Hesse, and so on, not to forget the senates of the free cities of Hamburg and Bremen).
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