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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 .
The Kingdom of Prussia [a] (German: Königreich Preußen, pronounced [ˈkøːnɪkʁaɪç ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. [5] It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1866 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. [5]
Les Hohenzollern : La dynastie qui a fait l'Allemagne (1061–1918) Carlyle, Thomas. A Short Introduction to the House of Hohenzollern (2014) Clark, Christopher. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (2009), standard scholarly history ISBN 978-0-7139-9466-7; Koch, H. W. History of Prussia (1987), short scholarly history
of Prussia 1866–1929: Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe 1859–1916: Sophia of Prussia 1870–1932: Constantine I 1868–1923 King of the Hellenes: Margaret of Prussia 1872–1954: Frederick Charles 1868–1940 King of Finland: Wilhelm 1882–1951 German Crown Prince: Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1886–1954: Eitel Friedrich of Prussia 1883–1942 ...
Prussia formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871. It was de facto dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and de jure by an Allied decree in 1947. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, expanding its size with the ...
In the spring of 1862, the Army reform escalated the Prussian constitutional conflict with the liberal chamber majority over the state parliament's co-determination in military affairs and fundamentally over the ([parliamentarization] Error: {{Langx}}: transliteration of latn script ) of Prussia, which led to the government's resignation and ...
Brandenburg-Prussia (German: Brandenburg-Preußen; Low German: Brannenborg-Preußen) is the historiographic denomination for the early modern realm of the Brandenburgian Royal dynasty of the House of Hohenzollern between 1618 and 1701.
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. His most significant accomplishments include military successes in the Silesian wars , reorganisation of the Prussian Army , the First Partition of Poland , and patronage ...