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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 February 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. King of Prussia (1861–1888) and German Emperor (1871–1888) "Wilhelm I" redirects here. For other uses, see William I. William I William I in 1884 German Emperor Reign 18 January 1871 – 9 March 1888 Proclamation 18 January 1871 ...
Prince Augustus William of Prussia: 4. Frederick William II of Prussia: 9. Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel: 2. Frederick William III of Prussia: 10. Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt: 5. Princess Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt: 11. Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken: 1. Frederick William IV of Prussia: 12.
Der Kaiser is the nickname of both Franz Beckenbauer, a German footballer active in the 1960s and 1970s who captained West Germany to the 1974 World Cup title, [10] and of the Austrian ski racer and 1976 Olympic champion Franz Klammer - both in an allusion to the Austrian Kaiser Franz I.
Several other cities had also applied as installation sites and in 1891 William II decided upon the confluence of the Rhine and Mosel rivers at Koblenz. Inauguration ceremony, 31 August 1897 After further landfills at the site and a large-scale collection campaign, the official "Emperor William Monument of the Rhine Province" was erected and ...
Son of Frederick William III; also President of the Erfurt Union (1849–1850) Hohenzollern: William I 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888 (aged 90) 2 January 1861: 9 March 1888: Brother of Frederick William IV, son of Frederick William III; also President of the North German Confederation (1867–1871) and German Emperor (from 1871)
The first (still surviving) monument to William I, which portrays him as King of Prussia on horseback, stands at the bridgehead of Cologne's Hohenzollern Bridge (right bank, i.e. on the Deutz side). The only monument showing Emperor William I in civilian clothes, stands in the spa park at Bad Ems. It was unveiled on 7 May 1893 and portrays the ...
The Emperor William Monument in 2006 Statue of William I inside the monument. The Emperor William Monument (German: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal), near the town of Porta Westfalica in the North Rhine-Westphalian county of Minden-Lübbecke, is a colossal monument above the Weser gorge of Porta Westfalica, the "Gateway to Westphalia".
The Kruger telegram was a message sent by Kaiser Wilhelm II to Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, on 3 January 1896.It congratulated Kruger on repelling the Jameson Raid, a botched raid against the Republic carried out by British colonial administrator Leander Starr Jameson.