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- Wilhelm II[b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
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Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
The monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia. The Duchy had evolved out of the Teutonic Order , a Roman Catholic crusader state and theocracy located along the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea .
Kaiser Wilhelm II © Wilhelm was the last German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia, whose bellicose policies helped to bring about World War One.
- Early Life
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- Kaiser Wilhelm II: Heir to A Prussian Tradition
Wilhelm II was born on January 26, 1859, in Berlin, the capital of Prussia, shortly before it became part of the larger German Empire that dominated much of Europe from 1871 through World War I. Wilhelm, of the Prussian royal house of Hohenzollern, was the eldest child of King Friedrich III and his wife, Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria of Grea...
The reign of Wilhelm II coincided with a period of modernization and industrial expansion in Germany. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Germany became the most powerful nation in continental Europe, largely through the influence of its powerful chancellor (head of state; similar to a British prime minister), Otto von Bismarck (...
Wilhelm was forced to abdicate in November 1918, when the German chancellor signed an armistice (peace treaty) bringing World War I to an end. Wilhelm was given refuge at Doorn in the Netherlands, where he remained for the rest of his life. His wife, the deposed kaiserin (empress) Augusta Victoria, went into exile with him. She died in 1921, and th...
Books
Clark, Christopher M. Kaiser Wilhelm II. New York: Longman, 2000. Van der Kiste, John. Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor.Stroud, England: Sutton, 1999. Wilhelm II. My Early Life. New York: George H. Doran, 1926. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1971.
Web sites
"Frederick Wilhelm Viktor Albert of Hohenzollern; Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany." Trenches on the Web. [Online] http://www.worldwar1.com/biokais.htm(accessed March 2001). "Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Place in the Sun." Modern History Sourcebook. [Online] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1901kaiser.html(accessed March 2001).
Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication in 1918 marked the end of the Hohenzollern dynasty, which had been a powerful force for some seven hundred years in the area now known as Germany. Always a powerful family, by the early 1400s, the Hohenzollern family took control of the state of Brandenburg, and in 1618 they added Prussia to their holdings. The first ...
As the son of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Wilhelm was (from 1861) the second in the line of succession to Prussia, and also, after 1871, to the German Empire, which according to the constitution of the German Empire was ruled by the Prussian King.
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.
May 26, 2024 · May 26, 2024. Introduction. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, was a complex and controversial figure who played a significant role in shaping the course of German and European history in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
