As King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
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The Kaiser who crashed an empire. Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck, built a fleet that spooked Britain, and blundered through diplomacy until Europe had no choice but war. By 1918 his generals ran Germany and he ran for the border.
Wilhelm was born in 1859, eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria through his mother and heir to the Prussian throne. In March 1888 his father Frederick III became emperor, then died 99 days later, leaving the crown to a 29-year-old Wilhelm. He fired Otto von Bismarck in 1890 and steered a "New Course" meant to make Germany the leading power—expanding into China and the Pacific, outproducing the rest of Europe in manufacturing. But he alienated nearly every rival: the naval arms race with Britain, the crises over Morocco and Bosnia, the Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. By 1914 only Austria-Hungary and t…
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I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago...in order to be pushed to one side when great international decisions call to be made.
The British navy is strong enough to defy any hostile combination; Germany has, practically speaking, no navy. I am therefore compelled to observe the strictest neutrality.
Imagine a monarch, holding personal command of his army, disbanding his regiments, sacred with a hundred years of history—and handing his towns over to Anarchists and Democracy.
The poor French...They have not read their Mahan!
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.
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