#wilhelm ii

[royal-confessions]

“I would love to watch a TV series about a period in the lives of three cousins ​​and emperors: Nicholas II of Russia, Wilhelm II of Germany and George V of the United Kingdom. The series could begin in 1894, at the wedding of Princess Victoria Melita and Grand Duke Ernest of Hesse, where members of several European monarchies were gathered (and when Nicholas asks Alexandra to marry him) and could end in 1918, with the end of the First World War, with each of the emperors having a different ending after the war.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#wilhelm ii #tsar nicholas ii #Nicholas II #King George V

[goodsped]

look at these idiots

#artists on tumblr #prussia #prussian royal family #prussian history #frederick the great #friedrich der große #frederick william i #frederick iii #wilhelm ii #too lazy to tag them all

[bobemajses]

The German Emperor Wilhelm II and his wife Empress Victoria in the house of a Jewish family in Damascus during their visit to the Levant in 1898.

#syria #jewish #wilhelm ii

[ryunumber]

Could you perhaps do Kaiser Wilhelm II?

Wilhelm II has a Ryu Number of 3.

#wilhelm ii #ryu number

[ihateornithologists]

speaking of cigarettes..... i had this cursed thing it's uhhmmm a dialogue between me and my friends illustrated as a shitty 2min meme and it's kinda HARD TO TRANSLATE but.

okay so. a friend (drawn as wilhelm here) sent me that extremely cursed picture with a caption 'have a smoke. suck death's dick' and i laughed so hard that sent it to another friend who uhhh Kind of roleplayed tod at some point in life.

so like. a free retelling

willy: that's for you (shows this picture)

rudolf: (unidentified expression) (shows the picture to tod)

tod: yeah that's absolutely right and valid get on your knees take a smoke

rudolf: (laughs hysterically and starts coughing)

willy: you know . What else would make you cough.

rudolf: (explodes)

#.....i didn't really want to tag this but nvm who cares #kronprinz rudolf #wilhelm ii #if somebody kills me i'll take the responsibility

[kaiserrreich]

October 22 1858: The Birth of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Lagenburg. Tragedy struck only a week after her birth when her elder brother died from illness. In 1860, her younger sister, Caroline Mathilda, was born. Who was regarded as prettier and a brighter personality than the chubby, serious, submissive Augusta Victoria. Soon Augusta’s mother would give birth to another boy, Gerhard, who died in infancy. Their next male heir and fifth child, Ernst Gunther, was a perfectly healthy baby boy. Augusta would have two other sisters, Louise Sophie in April 1866 and Feodora Adelaide in July 1874.

In her family, she was known affectionately as “Dona.” Augusta’s obedient nature was noted on early in her youth, even by her future mother-in-law Crown Princess Frederick. ‘It is strange how good some children are – and how little trouble they give,’ she wrote to her mother, Queen Victoria, when Augusta Victoria was nine years old.  ‘Ada’s children are patterns of obedience, gentleness – the best of dispositions’. (1)

The thought of a match between Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was contemplated ever since they were children, as noted by the prince (future Kaiser, ex-Kaiser) later in the future. But was never taken seriously until after the prince was rejected by Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. Perhaps, Wilhelm was seeking for a rebound in Dona and it was a success. As the couple married on the 27th of February 1881. The marriage has been regarded to be happy but not without struggle. As Wilhelm quickly grew bored at his new wife’s longing for a simple domestic lifestyle, having multiple affairs throughout the years. And in the beginning only saw Dona as a broodmare. It was only after an ear infection gone bad, where Augusta stayed by Wilhelm’s side throughout the duration of it did he start to see her in an adjusted light, but continued to be unfaithful to her.

She bore him seven children:

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (1882-1951)

Prince Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942)

Prince Adalbert (1884-1948)

Prince August Wilhelm (1887-1949)

Prince Oskar (1888-1958)

Prince Joachim (1890-1920)

Princess Viktoria Louise of Prussia (1892-1980)

Her days as Empress, she was regarded by the court as a prudish, a stickler for rules who punished anyone for the simplest gesture she deemed to be “immoral.” She was deemed by many as unremarkable and plain with a gaudy and tacky sense of fashion. With Nicholas II remarking to his mother, the Dowager Empress. That she ‘did her best to be pleasant but looked awful in sumptuous gowns completely lacking in taste; in particular the hats she wore in the evening were frightful.’

Though as overbearing and a nuisance as she was in public life and a part of her private life, by some family members, such as Empress Frederick (with whom she had a very heated feud with and who Augusta enjoyed snubbing frequently) who wrote to her daughter, Sophie, she was characterized as: ‘very grand and stiff and cold and condescending at first, but became much nicer afterwards.  Perhaps it was also partly shyness.’ and by her younger sister, Louise Sophie that when she was ‘not bowing to the will of her autocratic husband she was easy and indulgent’. “Her cousin Alice of Albany, who was sometimes mildly critical of her older relations, found her ‘most affable and kind’.”(1)

She was her husband’s biggest supporter throughout everything (for better and for worse) and was crushed when she was stripped of her titles as German Empress and Queen of Prussia after the war. Her health, which was already declining ever since the 1890s (causing her to miscarry twice) went down a rapid decline in the 1920s. And it had worsened when she had heard of the news of the death of her youngest son, Prince Joachim. She passed away on the 11th April 1921, in spite of her personal flaws, she was a beloved Empress by the German people and her popularity outshined her husband’s. Thousands lined up to see her off, where she would be buried at the Temple of Antiquities in the gardens near the New Palais in Postdam. Her husband, the ex Kaiser Wilhelm II was forbidden to cross into Germany to see his wife off for the final time.

Her room in Huis Doorn was soon turned into a shrine dedicated to the late Empress. With Wilhelm ordering for the room to regularly be cleaned with flowers and a cross draped over the bed. “Once a week, for the rest of his twenty years, he would retire there on his own, to go and mourn her memory.“ (1)

Wilhelm adhered to his late wife’s wishes for him to marry someone else when she was gone. When only a year later he would marry Princess Hermine of Reuss. He passed away in June of 1941, at age 82, 20 years after her passing.

Source : The Last German Empress

#monarchy #kaiser wilhelm ii #german empire #german monarchy #imperial germany #wilhelm ii #kaiserin augusta victoria #empress augusta victoria #royal birthdays #THIS TOOK ME AN HOUR😭 #and her bday is about to end in 8 minutes #i was hella procrastinating lmao #happy birthday to Dona ig #german royalty #german royal family

[postcard-from-the-past]

Last German Emperor Wilhelm II of Prussia

German vintage postcard

#postkaart #carte postale #briefkaart #wilhelm ii #old #sepia #wilhelm #postkarte #vintage #postal #emperor #photography #prussia #ephemera #postcard #ii #tarjeta #photo #ansichtskarte #historic #german

[best-hohenzollern-ruler]

Wilhelm II (r. 1888-1918)

The Last Kaiser

Well, as you all know, our esteemed Kaiser has had a few bumps along the road of his reign. Most notable was, of course, the sacking of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, which made waves all across Europe. So far, the Iron Chancellor's successors have possessed none of the realpolitik skills needed to govern the country and this "dropping of the pilot" will surely be seen as one of Wilhelm II's greatest failures.

His Majesty has greatly expanded our navy, including the Nassau class of battleship, our response to the British Dreadnought. While some have railed against this expensive arms race with the British, His Majesty assures us that Germany must establish itself on the seas to be taken seriously. One cannot help but wonder if His Majesty's increasingly frantic search for "a place in the sun" has any connection to his upbringing.

His abrasive personality has led to Germany's isolation from former allies Russia and Britain, which places Germany in a precarious geopolitical situation should war in Europe break out. (Note: Don't be ridiculous -T)

Friedrich I (r. 1688-1714)

First King in Prussia

Persuaded the Pope to elevate the duchy of Brandenburg-Prussia to a kingdom, creating the Kingdom of Prussia. Were it not for him, our great state would have never existed. Unfortunately he was unable to claim the title "King of Prussia" due to some ridiculous dispute with the Poles.

A patron of education, he created the Prussian Academy of Arts and the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. The later was shut down under his son due to monetary constraints, but was later reopened and reorganized until Friedrich der Große.

Although he was militarily opposed to the French, he did incorporate a lot of French culture into his court in an imitation of Louis XIV.

#round one #staffer theodor #friedrich i #fredrick i #wilhelm ii #william ii #prussian history #german history

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

The German Crown Princess and Princess; Frederick and Victoria, The Princess Royal (daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert).

Against their contemporaries of the German Empire, the couple shared liberal views and believed in a constitutional monarchy for Germany. Against the antisemitism of the time, the couple strongly supported the Jewish population of the German Empire regularly visiting synagogues when violence annd and antisemitism against Jewish people was increasing. Especially in the 1880s when a quarter of a million Germans signed a petition demanding Jewish people be banned from public office. Victoria wrote of her disgust of these leaders and her new nation who “behave so hatefully towards people of a different faith and another race who have become an integral part (and by no means the worst) of our nation!" This along with their other liberal beliefs heavily ostracised them from the conservative German court including Frederick’s parents. In contrast her mother, Queen Victoria, was proud of her daughter and son-in-law's efforts to stop the völkisch campaign and wrote to Frederick to say she was happy that her daughter had married a man like him, who was prepared to stand up for the rights of the Jews. Unfortunately for Frederick he would only become Emperor for 99 days due illness. Their son against their knowledge had been educated by a tutor with conservative views which meant their idea of constitutional monarchy would not come to fruition. The majority of their papers were saved having been sent to Windsor Castle before their son could destroy them. As Dowager she was heavily critical of her son who had purged all institutions of people chosen by Victoria and her late husband. When her son, Wilhelm II now the emperor (and last) wrote in the guestbook of the city of Munich the words "Suprema lex regis voluntas" (The will of the king is the supreme law"), she indignantly wrote to her mother; “The Tsar, an infallible Pope, a Bourbon or our poor Charles I might have pronounced that phrase, but a monarch of the 19th century ... My God, I think (...) Fritz's son and the grandson of my dear father took such a direction and also misunderstood the principles with which it is still possible to govern.”

#ktd #british royal family #brf #Victoria princess royal #Queen Victoria #Jewish history #World history #wilhelm ii #frederick iii #Empress of Prussia

[royal-confessions]

“As a history scholar, I cannot believe Wilhelm II still gets all the blame for World War I when it was actually Churchill and his puppet king who started it. That war led to World War II and now the UK is trying to impress the US so much that they are sucking in the whole world into another one.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#wilhelm ii #King George V #britain #winston churchill

[iron--and--blood]

The social democrats forcing Wilhelm II to abdicate was actually so problematic if you think about it... like he was neurodivergent and disabled? How many of the SPD were abled/NT? Also he was camp which like... slay?

inspired by x

#a JOKE this is a JOKE this is IRONY #prussian history #prussian shitposting #wilhelm ii #german history

[roehenstart]

Kaiser Wilhelm II.

#haus hohenzollern #preußen #prussia #german empire #ii reich #kaiser #kaiser wilhelm ii. #wilhelm ii

[ladygoehnio]

Family trip🏄‍♂️(I suppose that dog was Caesar!)

#king edward vii #Edward vii #kaiser wilhelm ii #wilhelm ii #queen alexandra #alexandra of denmark #king george vi #george v #george vi #king george v #edward viii #king edward viii #duke of windsor

[tintenspion]

Historical proof that Manfred von Richthofen was thicc

So uh I feel like sharing this to the emptiness of the internet but a lot of people described MvR as “chubby” so ill just list those accounts here.

First of all, he himself said he is “as big as a barrel” after gaining some weight in the trenches.

Then apparently Wilhelm II called him chubby when they first met “Sie sehen so dick und munter aus” (You look so chubby and happy). Essentially he called him a heckin’ wholesome chonker. [Edit: Yes, in the text he is talking about a meeting with Ludendorff, however he compares his meeting with Ludendorff with his meeting with Wilhelm II.]

Third is that apparently a family friend saw this picture and said “Das ist aber ein Moppelchen” (Moppelchen ist kind of a cutesy word for a chubby person) And my source is “trust me bro” because someone I trust a lot told me lmao.

#manfred von richthofen #ww1 #red baron #history #historyfacts #historical shitposting #big chungus #extra thicc #i dont know how to use tags on tumblr lmao #i want to kms #things no one asked for #richthofen #wilhelm ii #kaiser wilhelm ii

[ihateornithologists]

some old low quality rudolf and wilhelm content

#kronprinz rudolf #wilhelm ii #elisabeth das musical

[kaiserrreich]

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#kaiser wilhelm ii #wilhelm ii #king george v #george v #tsar nicholas ii #nicholas ii #polls #tumblr polls #the epic twerk off ! #shitpost