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Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. His fall from power marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 400-year rule over Prussia.
politics · German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 · also Wilhelm II, Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen, Friedrich Wilhelm Emperor William II, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, German Emperor Wilhelm II
Born 27 January 1859 · Died 4 June 1941 · Q2677
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“consolidating and closing itself off from British influences after the elimination of the British and the Jews!”
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“We have ceased to live under the rule of law and everyone must be prepared for the possibility that the Nazis will push their way in and put them up against the wall!”
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“Ruthlessness and weakness will start the most terrifying war of the world, whose purpose is to destroy Germany. Because there can no longer be any doubts, England, France and Russia have conspired themselves together to fight an annihilation war against us”
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“Your uncle would have given me a different answer!”
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“I really found my family, my friends, my interests—everything of which I had up to that time had to do without.”
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Secret Berlin: Just 50 minutes from Berlin lies this stunning Rococo palace, which bore the name of the forgotten emperor—the one between Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II—for 15 days before it was renamed
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Mshale: What Happened To Kaiser Wilhelm II's 7 Children After World War I? Jacksonville Weather (qjkRlwawNi)
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Addressing the pilgrimage, the museum director stated: "we don't honour Kaiser Wilhelm here"
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Died 1941-06-04.
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“The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.”
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“You [recruits] have sworn loyalty to me. You have only one enemy and that is my enemy. In the present social confusion, it may come about that I order you to shoot down your own relatives, brothers or parents but even then you must follow my orders without a murmur.”
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“Numa conversa com o rei Eduardo VII do Reino Unido, seu tio, após o funeral da Rainha Vitória”
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“[The German Legion] which, in conjunction with Blucher and the Prussians at Waterloo, saved the British Army from destruction.”
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“There is a breed of men who do not deserve the name of Germans. I trust that the entire nation will find the strength to beat back their outrageous attacks. If that does not occur, I shall have to call on you, my Guards, for protection against the gang of traitors and for leading the battle which will free us from such elements.”
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“I regard every Social Democrat as an enemy of the Empire and Fatherland.”
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“I look on myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way regardless of transient opinions and views.”
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“There is only one person who is master in this Empire and I am not going to tolerate any other.”
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“The Party which dares to attack the foundations of our State, which sets itself against religion and does not stop at attacking the person of the All-Highest Ruler must be rooted out to the very last stump.”
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“Variant: Germany must have her place in the sun. (Stated not by Wilhelm II but by Bernhard von Bülow)”
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“I repudiate these attacks on him...a German of the Germans...his honour so assailed. Who made this infamous attack upon our friend? Men who till now have been looked upon as Germans, but who henceforth are unworthy of that name. And these men come from the Reich's working classes, who owe so infinite a debt of gratitude to Krupp!”
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The aging Wilhelm retired completely from public life
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“Thus is the pernicious Entente Cordiale of Uncle Edward VII brought to nought.”
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“The hand of God is creating a new world & working ... We are becoming the U.S. of Europe under German leadership, a united European Continent.”
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Specifically stated that the downfall of Germany in the First World War was due to country's "poor leadership" at that time
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Came what would have been his mother's 100th birthday
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Wilhelm published the first volume of his memoirs—a very slim volume that insisted he was not guilty of initiating the Great War, and defended his conduct throughout his reign, especially in matters of foreign policy
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“deepest, most disgusting shame ever perpetrated by a person in history, the Germans have done to themselves ... egged on and misled by the tribe of Judah ... Let no German ever forget this, nor rest until these parasites have been destroyed and exterminated from German soil!”
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Career landmark: abdication.
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Kaiser Wilhelm also suggested a similar campaign against the "Jew-Bolsheviks" who were slaughtering the Baltic German nobility in the Baltic states, citing the example of what Turks had done to the Ottoman Armenians just
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Hindenburg and Ludendorff decided that Bethman-Hollweg was no longer acceptable to them as Chancellor and called upon the Kaiser to appoint somebody else
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His diplomatic brinksmanship culminated in the guarantee of his country's military support to Austria-Hungary during the July Crisis which ultimately plunged all of Europe into World War I
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Wilhelm hosted a lavish wedding in Berlin for his only daughter, Victoria Louise
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As an opportunity to promote his views on Anglo-German friendship, but due to the content and emotional tone of many of his statements, he ended up further alienating not only the British but also the French, Russians an
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Awarded Order of the Liberator.
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Awarded Order of the Chrysanthemum.
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Awarded Order of the Royal House of Chakri.
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Awarded Order of Glory.
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Awarded Order of the Crown of Thailand.
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Awarded Order of Willem.
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Career landmark: Assasination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm II on March 6, 1901.
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Supported the morganatic marriage of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria to Countess Sophie Chotek, and helped negotiate an end to the opposition to the wedding by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
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Wilhelm appointed the man whom he regarded as "his own Bismarck", Bernhard von Bülow
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Career landmark: Assassination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm II on November 16, 1900.
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By an international force known as the Eight-Nation Alliance
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Wilhelm II wrote to Nicholas II that:
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Enabling faster movements between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
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The Reichstag passed the Workers Protection Acts, which improved working conditions, protected women and children and regulated labour relations
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Wilhelm reorganised top-level control of the navy by creating a Naval Cabinet (Marine-Kabinett) equivalent to the German Imperial Military Cabinet which had previously functioned in the same capacity for both the army an
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Wilhelm secured the sale of German-made rifles to the Ottoman Army
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Wilhelm's younger sister Sophia married Constantine, Crown Prince of Greece
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Career landmark: German Emperor (1888–1918).
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Career landmark: King of Prussia (1888–1918).
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A friend of Wilhelm "declared that the young Kaiser's dislike of his Hebrew subjects, one rooted in a perception that they possessed an overweening influence in Germany, was so strong that it could not be overcome"
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Also, thanks to Herbert von Bismarck, the son of the Chancellor, Prince Wilhelm began to be trained twice a week at the Foreign Ministry
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Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1884).
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Bismarck began advocating that Kaiser Wilhelm send his grandson on diplomatic missions, a privilege denied to the Crown Prince
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Wilhelm became engaged to Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, known as "Dona"
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Wilhelm was taken to England to be present at the wedding of his uncle Bertie and Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra)
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Born 1859-01-27.
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