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  Wilhelm II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilhelm was educated at Kassel at the Friedrichsgymnasium and the University of Bonn.
Wilhelm was accused of megalomania as early as 1894, by German pacifist Ludwig Quidde.
Wilhelm was in favour of the dismissal of Helmuth von Moltke the Younger in 1915 and his replacement by Erich von Falkenhayn.
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 Wilhelm II of Germany - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
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.
Kaiser Wilhelm II died of pneumonia in Doorn on June 5, 1941 with the German occupiers on guard at the gates of his estate.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Wilhelm_II   (1152 words)

  
 Wilhelm II of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On death of Wilhelm I on March 9 1888 his father was crowned Emperor as III but he was dying of throat and in June that same year Wilhelm succeeded him as Emperor.
Despite his attitude it is difficult to that he sought World War I although he did little to halt He had allied with Austria-Hungary and encouraged their hard-line in the and although he lost his nerve at last minute it was too late and soon recovered to push his generals for achievements.
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.
www.freeglossary.com /Wilhelm_II_of_Germany   (1018 words)

  
 First World War.com - Primary Documents - Kaiser Wilhelm II's Abdication Proclamation, 28 November 1918
With Germany actively seeking an armistice and revolution threatening, calls for Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate grew in intensity.
Wilhelm was himself deeply reluctant to make such a sacrifice, instead expressing a preference to lead his armies back into Germany from the Western Front.
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).
www.firstworldwar.com /source/abdication.htm   (424 words)

  
 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.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/wilhelmii.htm   (846 words)

  
 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.
Wilhelm II’s desire for ‘personal rule’ meant that any of his personal traits would be very important; therefore ‘Wilhelm II’s impulsiveness and infirmity of purpose aroused mistrust everywhere’.
Wilhelm II stated publicly that it was ‘now or never for Austria to deal the Serbs’, which led to Austria-Hungary being pressured into declaring war on Russia on August 6, thus escalating a localised conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia into a European war.
www.angelfire.com /tv/jarbury/essay/wilhelm.html   (1427 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Chronicles | The vanquished looks back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilhelm II was thus allowed to live out the remainder of his days in The Netherlands in peace.
Wilhelm II recounts that, while on board the British royal yacht at the invitation of King Edward VII, he instructed his chancellor to approach the British king on that subject.
Wilhelm II devotes the rest of his memoirs to the circumstances that led to his country's defeat in the war.
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 Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
German Crown Prince Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Prussia (6 May 1882 - 20 July 1951), Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst, was born 6 May 1882 at Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Germany.
He was the son of Wilhelm II of Germany (1859-1941) and his first wife Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Augustenburg (1858-1921), which made him the eldest child of the eldest child of the eldest child of Queen Victoria.
Both Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Crown Prince signed the document of abdication.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crown_Prince_Wilhelm_of_Germany   (373 words)

  
 Wilhelm II Of Germany (wilhelm ii of germany info)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 15 June1888 to 9 November1918.
On the death of Wilhelm I on March 9 1888, his father was crowned Kaiser as Friedrich III but he was dying of throat cancer, and on 15th June of that same year Wilhelm II succeeded him as Kaiser of Germany and of the Germans.
Even in Germany itself, real control was increasingly tenuous, as various local princes increased their power, so that the Habsburg emperors who ruled almost continuously from 1438 until the end of the empire derived their power much more from their hereditary lands in the south-eastern part of the monarchy than from their position as emperor.
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 SIXTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Emperor FREDERICK III of Germany ("Fritz") was born on 18 Oct 1831 in Potsdam, Germany.
Princess Victoria of England Princess Royal, Empress of Germany ("Vicky") was born in 1840.
Charlotte of Prussia Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen was born in 1860.
www.royalgenealogy.com /d89.htm   (89 words)

  
 Worshipping Kaiser Wilhelm II
To them he is their beloved Kaiser, the personification of a brave Germany, the victim of biased historians and a mean leftish press.
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)

  
 Wilhelm II of Germany
Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and German Kaiser, born 27 January 1859 in Berlin, died 5 June 1941 at
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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Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany saw in his country the potential to become the top power in the world and reached for such a goal.
To accomplish this, Wilhelm enlisted Prince Bernhard von Bulow to handle the diplomatic aspect of Germany's new naval policy and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz to direct the construction of the massive new fleet.
Germany's poor estimation of the outcome of its actions drove it unstoppably forward to a climax of war.
www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/projects/great_war/german.navy.htm   (853 words)

  
 The Great War . Timeline . Pre-1914 | PBS
After his father's untimely death, 29 year-old Wilhelm II becomes ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm II, of Germany.
Photo: Kaiser Wilhelm II Nicolas is crowned Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, a position he did not want.
Germany and Russia do not renew a friendship treaty and begin their adversary relationship.
www.pbs.org /greatwar/timeline   (149 words)

  
 Propaganda Postcards of the Great War, Centrals: Heads of State
Wilhelm II ascended to the royal and imperial thrones in 1888.
Wilhelm exercised actual and near-dictatorial powers in the conduct of Germany's war activities, supported unquestionably by the Prussian dominated military and a generally compliant Reichstag (parliament).
Mehmed V was a totally figurehead monarch as the imposition of the constitution stripped the Sultan of almost all his prerogatives.
www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com /centrals_heads_of_state.html   (802 words)

  
 Wilhelm II of Germany articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is noted for its university, founded in 1734 (opened 1737) by Elector George Augustus (George II of England).
Köpenick KÖPENICK [Köpenick], district of Berlin, E Germany, at the confluence of the Spree and Dahme rivers.
278,000), Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, on the northern fringes of the Black Forest, connected by canal with a port on the nearby Rhine River.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Wilhelm+II+of+Germany   (482 words)

  
 TGOL - Kaiser Wilhelm II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Another disappointment with the new Kaiser Wilhelm II was that she, like the Deutschland, had a tendency to vibrate when she was steaming at high speed.
In WWI, the Kaiser Wilhelm II was renamed Agamemnon and used by the Allies in the battle against her creators.
That same year, the former Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kronprinzessin Cecilie were sold to the Boston Iron and Metal Co. of Baltimore for scrapping.
www.greatoceanliners.net /kwII2.html   (2178 words)

  
 Wilhelm II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Following her death, while living in exile, in 1922 he married, the widowed Princess Reuss.
He is buried in, Doorn, in the Netherlands.
William of Germany (http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/0/4/13043/13043-8.txt); ; 1913; Project Gutenberg edition.
www.dania.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Wilhelm_II_of_Germany   (1091 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Kaiser Wilhelm II : Germany's Last Emperor: Books: John Van Der Kiste   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was said of both Teddy Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm II that each wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.
Wilhelm's obsessive relationship with his mother (who was born the eldest child of Queen Victoria), his also-obsessive sense of competition with Britain, and his role in the outbreak of the Great War are important factors in the kaiser's life and reign that the author scrutinizes with excellent psychological fathoming and stylish detail.
Wilhelm fled into exile in Holland, dying on the eve of World War II, given a military funeral by Hitler, whom he came to loath after his initial enthusiasm for the Nazis.
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 Up-in-Smoke Cigar Band Museum
She was grandmother of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
He was the uncle of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, whom he greatly disliked.
Wilhelm failed to halt Germany's entrance into the First World War and when the war ended unfavorably for Germany his popularity failed.
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 Kaiser Wilhelm II
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.
Kaiser Wilhelm II gave an interview to the Daily Telegraph that was published on 28th October 1908.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWkaiser.htm   (1594 words)

  
 Christian Century: The most dreaded of Huns - Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany
You might if it were as well written as Lamar Cecil's Wilhelm II, Volume Two: Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941 (University of North Carolina Press), and if its drab subject were a major participant in 20th-century history.
Wilhelm II was the "Kaiser Bill," hated by the German side of my parentage and ancestry as well as by all "Hun-haters" and all higher-minded peace-lovers for the evil he wrought by co-producing World War I. James J. Sheehan, in his Times Literary Supplement review (May 30) of the book, writes that
Instead, the most dreaded seatmate is, as Sheehan describes Wilhelm II, "vain, garrulous and self-absorbed." Whoever has taken along a big book to read, only to be interrupted constantly by an unshushable monologist, knows what Sheehan means.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n23_v114/ai_19721006   (384 words)

  
 icollector Live Auctions :: Auction Items   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 You Want Propaganda? Now This Is a Story About Propaganda
As the media becomes more and more pervasive in daily life, one of the fastest growing historical fields is the study of how certain nations or groups or individuals have manipulated the news for their own purposes.
There are few better examples than the British and American demonization of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany before and during World War I. Wilhelm II was a juicy target.
The film closed with discussions of Wilhelm's old age and death, with flattering comments on the way he displayed no bitterness toward those who had slandered him so viciously.
hnn.us /articles/1521.html   (1057 words)

  
 The UNC Press, Wilhelm II by Lamar Cecil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany.
As Cecil shows, Wilhelm's private life reflects a deeply troubled and very superficial man. But the book's larger focus is on Wilhelm as a head of state.
He was dethroned on November 9, 1918, when a socialist republic was established in Berlin, and he fled in exile to Holland, where he resided for the remaining twenty-three years of his life, working energetically, but to no avail, for his restoration to the throne.
uncpress.unc.edu /books/T-103.html   (258 words)

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