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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 .
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
Official papers of successive governments of Brandenburg-Prussia, including central administrative and judicial proceedings of institutions such as: Prussian Royal Supreme Court; Prussian Ministry of Finance; Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry; Royal Archives of the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire
The Catholic ruling houses of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen had hereditary treaties with Prussia that went back to 1695 and 1707 respectively. During the German Revolutions of 1848–1849, when the principalities' future came into question, King Frederick William IV of Prussia was initially reluctant to take them over.
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]
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 ...
The office of Minister-President (German: Ministerpräsident), or Prime Minister, of Prussia existed from 1848, when it was formed by King Frederick William IV during the 1848–49 Revolution, until the abolition of Prussia in 1947 by the Allied Control Council.
Prussia's near-total control over the confederation was secured in the constitution drafted for it by Bismarck in 1867. Executive power was held by a president, assisted by a chancellor responsible only to him. The presidency was a hereditary office of the Hohenzollern rulers of Prussia. There was also a two-house parliament.