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On 9-10 November 1918 Wilhelm fled to neutral Holland and on 28 November abdicated both as German Kaiser and King of Prussia. Despite a British electoral campaign promising to “hang the Kaiser,” Wilhelm managed to avoid extradition and trial as a war criminal.
The political system under the 1871 constitution of Imperial Germany can be described on one hand as a federation of formerly sovereign principalities and free city states, with the king of Prussia presiding over the federation and assuming the hereditary title as German emperor (Kaiser).
Schlieffen Plan, battle plan first proposed in 1905 by Alfred, Graf (count) von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff, that was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war.
The army was led by Prussian officers, who reported directly to the Emperor (who was of course also the King of Prussia!) Prussia provided 17 out of 58 representatives in the Bundesrat.
General Paul von Hindenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and General Erich Ludendorff in 1917. Inevitably Kaiser Wilhelm II, German emperor, king of Prussia and Supreme War Lord, is in the forefront of the current very lively debate on the origins and nature of the First World War.
Following Germany’s defeat in World War One the Prussian monarchy was abolished. influence was dominant although Wilhelm II’s first Chancellor, Caprivi (1890-1894) did give up the position of...
With the German economy unlikely to last in a long war, Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen – Chief of Staff of the German Army - set out a new strategy aimed at a quick victory. It would become known as the Schlieffen plan.
