* Wilhelm II Land

Initially, Emperor Wilhelm II told the Archduke Franz Ferdinand that Germany was ready to support Austria in all circumstances — even at the risk of a world war, but the Austro-Hungarians hesitated.

* The right wing, composed of knights of Champagne and Burgundy, was commanded by the Duke of Burgundy Eudes and his lieutenants: III Gaucher de Châtillon Count of Saint-Pol, Count Wilhelm I of Sancerre, Count of Beaumont and Mathieu de Montmorency and Adam II Viscount of Melun.

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

Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

In the same year his son Wilhelm II became the third emperor within a year.

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 1925 Wilhelm II emphatically said that Germany needed to pursue a freehand foreign policy " like Mussolini !".

Wilhelm II also praised Mussolini's diplomacy towards the Catholic Church, though he strongly opposed Mussolini's diplomatic agreements with the Soviet Union.

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

After the removal of the powerful Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1890 following the death of Emperor Wilhelm I, the young Emperor Wilhelm II engaged in increasingly reckless foreign policies that left the Empire isolated.

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

" Dropping the Pilot " – British caricature depicting Bismarck's dismissal by Wilhelm II, German Emperor | Wilhelm II in 1890

Frederick's son Wilhelm II then became emperor at the age of 29.

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.

* 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9, 400 people.

* 1859 – Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany ( d. 1941 )

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

This was initially interpreted to mean that the medium drags the aether along, with a portion of the medium's velocity, but that understanding became very problematic after Wilhelm Veltmann demonstrated that the index n in Fresnel's formula depended upon the wavelength of light, so that the aether could not be moving at a wavelength-independent speed.

Due to alliances orchestrated by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, France was initially isolated, but after Kaiser Wilhelm II took the throne in 1888 and gradually estranged Germany from Russia and Britain, the prospect of fighting a future war on two fronts simultaneously caused increasing unease among German leaders.

He joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1941, initially as second flute, and played with them until 1950 and again from 1961 to 1970, under such conductors as Henry Wood and Wilhelm Furtwängler.

Max and Wilhelm Werner from Tillendorf initially moved to Höhr-Grenzhausen in the Westerwald range before setting up a shop in nearby Hilgert in 1960.

The party supported Emperor Wilhelm II's naval policies and Germany's arms race with the United Kingdom, but initially kept its distance towards colonialism and the activists of the Pan-German League.

The 6th Brigade was initially commanded by Colonel Kristian Løken, and from 9 May by Lieutenant Colonel Ole Berg, and the 7th Brigade, commanded by Colonel Wilhelm Faye.

The German troops in southeastern Europe came under the 12th Army headed initially by Field Marshal Wilhelm List and later by General Alexander Löhr.

Braun initially studied archaeology and philosophy in Göttingen, then moved to Munich, later Dresden, and 1833 to Berlin, from where he followed Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard to Rome.

Although initially plagued by disunity, Montecuccoli was finally able to convince Coligny and Leopold Wilhelm of Baden-Baden ( commander of the Imperial detachment ) to mass their forces and attack the Ottoman troops, who were reorganizing in a nearby forest.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

Even though Wilhelm supported the altered anti-socialist bill, Bismarck pushed for his support to veto the bill in its entirety.

One of the first philosophers who supported this view was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

She greatly distrusted her nephew, German Emperor Wilhelm II, and supported her son during World War I, in which Britain and its allies fought Germany.

Notable painters and engravers Władysław supported and who attended his royal court included Tommaso Dolabella Peter Danckerts de Rij, Wilhelm Hondius, Bartłomiej Strobel, and Christian Melich.

Between 1985 – 1986, Bill Leeb supported Skinny Puppy under the name Wilhelm Schroeder.

The Rockefeller Foundation supported both the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Psychiatry and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics.

Menzies, who was promoted to major-general in January 1944, also supported efforts to contact anti-Nazi resistance, including Wilhelm Canaris, the anti-Nazi head of Abwehr, in Germany.

Prince Alfonso presided, supported by the sons of his first marriage to Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, an Agnelli heiress who arrived with her own entourage ; Princess Marie-Louise of Prussia ( great-granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II ) who, with her husband Count Rudolf " Rudi " von Schönburg – Glauchau, would eventually take over the Marbella Club Hotel from Prince Alfonso ; and socialite Countess Gunilla von Bismarck.

In the second round of voting in the 1925 presidential election, the Weimar Coalition parties all supported the candidacy of the Centrist former chancellor Wilhelm Marx, who was narrowly defeated by Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, supported by a center-right coalition of the DVP, the German National People's Party, and the Bavarian People's Party.

Many French Martinists supported Karl Wilhelm Naundorff's claims to the French throne.

Kaiser Wilhelm II supported the war, and promised to neutralise a Romanian attack, and put pressure on Sofia.

From 1813 to 1855, Johann Wilhelm David Korth ( 1783 – 1861 ) edited volumes 124 – 225, at times supported by co-authors Ludwig Kossarski and Carl Otto Hoffmann.

In 1913 Wilhelm was one of several princes considered for the throne of Albania ; he was supported by Catholic groups in the north.

Those plans were supported by such prominent public figures such as Clauswitz, Gneisenau, Theodor von Schon, Wilhelm von Humbold.

Von Galen openly supported the Protestant Paul von Hindenburg against the Catholic candidate Wilhelm Marx in the presidential elections of 1925.

As a diplomat, von Bernstorff adamantly supported Anglo-German rapprochement and considered the policies of Wilhelm II “ reckless .” Bernstorff's diplomatic skills were noted in Berlin throughout the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905 and he was appointed the German ambassador to the United States and Mexico in 1908.

At this time, the German military supported the idea of an Austrian attack against Serbia as the best way of starting a general war, whereas Wilhelm believed that an Austro-Serbian war would be purely local.

When Pourtalès, the German Ambassador in St. Petersburg reported that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov warned him that Germany “ must reckon with Europe ” if she supported an Austrian attack against Serbia, Wilhelm wrote on the margin of Pourtalès ’ s dispatch “ No!

Through his law partner, Barbasch, Litten got involved with the Rote Hilfe, a solidarity organization founded by Wilhelm Pieck and Clara Zetkin that supported worker's families in dire need during the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic.