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2 days ago · Frederick III (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 1831 – 15 June 1888) was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days between March and June 1888, during the Year of the Three Emperors.
1 day ago · Frederick William's testament would have divided Brandenburg-Prussia among his sons, yet firstborn Frederick III with the emperor's backing succeeded in becoming the sole ruler based on the Treaty of Gera, which forbade a division of Hohenzollern territories.
2 days ago · County of Zollern. Hohenzollern Castle, near Hechingen, was built in the mid-19th century by Frederick William IV of Prussia on the remains of the castle founded in the early 11th century. Zollern, from 1218 Hohenzollern, was a county of the Holy Roman Empire. Later its capital was Hechingen .
3 days ago · Frederick William III, a conscientious and modest but ineffectual ruler, was notable for private morality rather than political skill. The government in Berlin drifted back and forth, dabbling in minor economic and administrative reforms without significantly improving the structure of the state.
5 days ago · He tried to hold out in East Prussia, hoping that the Russian armies, which were still at war with Napoleon, would help him regain the rest of his kingdom. But when in July 1807 Alexander I concluded peace with France at Tilsit, the unfortunate Frederick William had no choice but to follow suit.
1 day ago · The followers of the baron vom Stein were still influential in the councils of state, and Frederick William III of Prussia at first seriously considered ways of fulfilling the promise he had made in 1815 to establish constitutional government.
2 days ago · The official nature of these manuscripts is marked by the inclusion of elaborate dedications to Gröben’s princely patrons, Elector Frederick William and his successor, Elector Frederick III (the later King Frederick I) in the manuscripts’ prefatory sections, see van der Heyden, “Neue Funde,” 269–272.
