From 1893 he studied Protestant theology at the Kaiser Wilhelm Universität of Straßburg.

The Kurfürstendamm is home to some of Berlin's luxurious stores with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at its eastern end on Breitscheidplatz.

Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel were known for keeping dachshunds.

* Wadl and Hexl, Kaiser Wilhelm II's famous ferocious pair.

In 1924 it came under the auspices of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science.

Maurice Elvey's Nelson – England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1919 ) has a symbolic sequence dissolving from a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm II to a peacock, and then to a battleship.

The exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II praised Mussolini for his foreign policy and diplomacy.

In 1888, the young and ambitious Kaiser Wilhelm II became emperor.

The young Kaiser Wilhelm sought aggressively to increasing Germany's influence in the world ( Weltpolitik ).

On July 27, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in China, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany gave the order to act ruthlessly towards the rebels: " Mercy will not be shown, prisoners will not be taken.

Leopold Jessner's 1926 production at the Berlin Staatstheater portrayed Claudius's court as a parody of the corrupt and fawning court of Kaiser Wilhelm.

But when, in early 1915, the Allies asked for Greek help in the Dardanelles campaign, offering Cyprus in exchange, their diverging views became apparent: Constantine had been educated in Germany, was married to Sophia of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and was convinced of the Central Powers ' victory.

* 1900 – Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns ; for years afterwards, " Hun " would be a disparaging name for Germans.

* 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II ; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.

Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.

His father was cashiered from the Imperial German Army in 1908 — after repeatedly disparaging Kaiser Wilhelm II for his alleged homosexuality — and the Ribbentrop family were often short of money.

Fritz was a master of the subtle sell, and cultivated a close rapport with the Kaiser, Wilhelm II.

Kaiser Wilhelm II felt it was unthinkable for the Krupp firm to be run by a woman.

It branches off from the Breitscheidplatz near Bahnhof Zoo and the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and leads southwestward through the Charlottenburg district.

View to Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, 1916 postcard

On June 20, 1895, the canal was officially opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II for transiting from Brunsbüttel to Holtenau.

The next day, a ceremony was held in Holtenau where Wilhelm II named it the Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal ( after Kaiser Wilhelm I ), and laid the final stone.

Designed by architect Franz Heinrich Schwechten ( 1841 – 1924 ), who was also responsible for the Anhalter Bahnhof and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, it was erected in 1911-12 as the Haus Potsdam.

West Berlin inevitably chose the Kurfürstendamm and the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, while East Berlin built up Alexanderplatz and turned Frankfurter Allee ( which they renamed Stalinallee in 1949, Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961 ), into their own showpiece boulevard.

From the Panoramapunkt one can see such landmarks as the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Federal Chancellery, Bellevue Palace, Cathedral, Television Tower, Gendarmes Market, Holocaust Memorial and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

* Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, a memorial church for Wilhelm I

These include part of the facade of the Anhalter Bahnhof and the belfry of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

After World War II and the city's division by the Berlin Wall, the area around Kurfürstendamm and Bahnhof Zoo was the centre of former West Berlin, with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church as its landmark.

Alfred Döblin, Otto Dix, Gottfried Benn, Else Lasker-Schüler, Bertolt Brecht, Max Liebermann, Stefan Zweig and Friedrich Hollaender socialized in the legendary Romanisches Café at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

* the old and new Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on the Breitscheidplatz, built in 1895 by Franz Schwechten and in 1961 by Egon Eiermann, the former West Berlin landmark

The bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg ( under this name 1945 – 2003 ) is based in St. Mary's Church, Berlin, and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

The Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ( in German: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, but mostly just known as Gedächtniskirche ) is located in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz.

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial under repair work, June 2012

In December 2007, Charles Jeffrey Gray, a former British pilot who carried out World War II bombing raids over Germany, joined a campaign to rescue the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church from decay.

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* Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche ( also known in English as Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ) in Berlin.

By far his most famous work is the new church on the site of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin ( 1959-1963 ).

The ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, destroyed by Allied bombing and preserved as a memorial

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was destroyed.

Next to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche ( Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ) on Breitscheidplatz, which was shattered during the air raids in World War II, a modern new church was built.

* Kaiser Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery