William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his...
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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...
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Frederick William I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm I.; 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740), known as the Soldier King (German: Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia...
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Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst; 6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the eldest child of the last...
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1918, two days before the end of World War I. It was formally affirmed by a written statement from Wilhelm on 28 November while he was in exile in Amerongen...
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William I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Karl; 27 September 1781 – 25 June 1864) was King of Württemberg from 30 October 1816 until his death. Upon William's...
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating...
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Wilhelm Reich (/raɪx/ RYKHE; German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʁaɪç]; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member...
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and Wilhelm II conferred the Order of the Red Eagle upon Lissauer. Three years after writing the poem, Lissauer coined the slogan Gott strafe England ("May...
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Prince of Orange, and Mary, Princess Royal, the daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland. His father died a week before his birth, making...
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Frederick III, German Emperor (redirect from Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl)
(1906) The Knights of England, I, London, p. 60 Shaw, p. 198 Marcks, Erich ADB:Wilhelm I. (deutscher Kaiser) (1897). "Wilhelm I. (deutscher Kaiser)"....
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Paris Gun (redirect from Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz)
definition of large-calibre artillery. Also called the "Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz" ("Kaiser Wilhelm Gun"), they were often confused with Big Bertha, the German...
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Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (August 17, 1743, Uelzen – July 4, 1815, Braunschweig) was a German geographer and zoologist. He studied natural...
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armistice, the Armistice of Salonica on 29 September 1918. Wilhelm II, in a telegram to Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria described the situation thus: "Disgraceful...
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Willy–Nicky correspondence (category Wilhelm II)
great-great-grandsons of Paul I of Russia) as well as being second cousins once removed (both were descended from Frederick William III of Prussia). Wilhelm was also a first...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; 1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist...
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entered into the League of Three Emperors (Dreikaiserbund) with Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany and Emperor Alexander II of Russia, who was succeeded by Tsar...
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Philip II of Spain (redirect from Philip I of England)
death in 1598. He was also jure uxoris King of England and Ireland from his marriage to Queen Mary I in 1554 until her death in 1558. Further, he was...
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four sons: Frederick (d. young 1350) Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (11 April 1370 – 4 January 1428) Wilhelm II, Margrave of Meissen (23 April 1371 – 30...
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Wilhelm Adam (28 March 1893 – 24 November 1978) was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Following the German surrender after...
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Æthelstan (redirect from Athelstan I of England)
England". In Rollason, David; Leyser, Conrad; Williams, Hannah (eds.). England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison...
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Brothers Grimm (redirect from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm)
(German: die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected and published...
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was named after Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. She had a varied career...
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Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1886, young Ferdinand became the heir-presumptive to the throne of his childless uncle, King Carol I of Romania...
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Edward the Elder (redirect from Edward I the Elder of England)
Leyser, Conrad; Williams, Hannah (eds.). England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876–1947). Turnhout, Belgium:...
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Frederick William IV of Prussia (redirect from Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia)
publisher (link) Shaw, Wm. A. (1906) The Knights of England, I, London, p. 56 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preußen....
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Frederick William III of Prussia (redirect from Friedrich Wilhelm III)
Shaw, Wm. A. (1906) The Knights of England, I, London, p. 51 Militaire Willems-Orde: Preussen, Friederich Wilhelm III von, (in Dutch) "Großherzoglicher...
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Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (14 October 1840 – 22 March 1899), also known as Gottlieb William Leitner, was a British orientalist. Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism...
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Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (category Children of Wilhelm II)
Prince Wilhelm Eitel Friedrich Christian Karl of Prussia (7 July 1883 – 8 December 1942) was the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany by his first...
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