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May 23, 2024 · t. e. Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772.
2 days ago · Three episodes proved fundamental to the unification of Germany. First, the death without male heirs of Frederick VII of Denmark led to the Second War of Schleswig in 1864. Second, the unification of Italy provided Prussia an ally against Austria in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.
3 days ago · Wilhelm II (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 and the House of Hohenzollern's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg.
2 days ago · Hoyer implies that German colonialism only really got going after Bismarck left the stage in 1890, and that it was largely the brainchild of Wilhelm II and his inner circle (p. 137), but that wasn’t the case. Bismarck willingly set a train in motion that would ultimately lead to a human catastrophe.
May 19, 2024 · He was widely regarded as a leader and a model by philosophers and men of letters of his time (“How did Frederick become king?”). Prussia has had a complicated history, and its fate was intertwined with that of Germany.
6 days ago · Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780199693078; 784pp.; Price: £85.00. It is a brave man who would take on the job of writing a history of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire between 1493 and 1806. Many historians would maintain that neither Germany nor even German national consciousness (certainly not German nationalism) existed ...
5 days ago · In modern Germany, the medieval emperor Frederick has often been overshadowed by the mythical figure of Barbarossa, sleeping in his mountain to return one day to restore the glory of the Empire. Moreover, nationalistic zealots hailed this ruler as the heroic epitome of a German man.
