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Wilhelm I
Black-and-white photograph of an elderly Wilhelm, a bald man with side whiskers
Wilhelm I in 1884
German Emperor
Reign 18 January 1871 – 9 March 1888
Proclamation 18 January 1871
Predecessor Monarchy established
Successor Frederick III
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
King of Prussia
Reign 2 January 1861 – 9 March 1888
Coronation 18 October 1861
Predecessor Frederick William IV
Successor Frederick III
Minister-Presidents See list
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern
Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
Otto von Bismarck
Albrecht von Roon
Holder of the Bundespräsidium of the North German Confederation[1]
In office
1 July 1867 – 31 December 1870
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
Born 22 March 1797
Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin, Prussia
Died 9 March 1888 (aged 90)
Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany
Burial 16 March 1888
Royal Mausoleum, Charlottenburg Palace Park
Spouse Augusta of Saxe-Weimar
(m. 1829)
Issue Frederick III, German Emperor
Louise, Grand Duchess of Baden
Names
German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig
English: William Frederick Louis
House Hohenzollern
Father Frederick William III of Prussia
Mother Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Religion Lutheran (Prussian United)
Military career
Allegiance Kingdom of Prussia
German Confederation
Branch Prussian Army
(active service)
Service years 1809–1858
(active service)
Rank Generalfeldmarschall
(active service)
Unit 1st Guards Regiment
Commands Stettiner Gardelandwehrbataillon
Fortress Mainz
Conflicts War of the Sixth Coalition Battle of Bar-sur-Aube
Battle of Paris
Hundred Days Battle of Ligny
Battle of Waterloo
Revolutions of 1848
Austro-Prussian War Battle of Königgratz
Franco-Prussian War Battle of Gravelotte
Battle of Sedan
Siege of Paris
Awards Iron Cross

Wilhelm I (also known in English as William I;[2][3] German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany. He was regent of Prussia from 1858 to 1861 for his elder brother, King Frederick William IV. During the reign of his grandson Wilhelm II, he was known as Emperor Wilhelm the Great (German: Kaiser Wilhelm der Große).

The second son of Prince Frederick William and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Wilhelm was not expected to ascend to the throne. His grandfather, King Frederick William II died the year he was born, and his father was crowned Frederick William III. Wilhelm fought with distinction during the War of the Sixth Coalition, and afterwards became a prominent figure within the Prussian Army. In 1840, his childless elder brother became King of Prussia, making him heir presumptive. Wilhelm played a major role in crushing the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, although he was briefly forced into exile in England. Frederick William IV suffered a stroke in 1857 and was left incapacitated, and Wilhelm was formally named Prince Regent a year later. In 1861, Wilhelm ascended to the Prussian throne on his elder brother's death.

Upon ascension, Wilhelm immediately came into conflict with the liberal Landtag over his proposed military budget. In response, he appointed Otto von Bismarck to the post of Minister President in order to force through his proposals, beginning a partnership that would last for the rest of his life. On the foreign front, Wilhelm oversaw Prussian victories in the Second Schleswig War and the Austro-Prussian War, establishing Prussia as the leading German power. In 1871, through Bismarck's maneuvers, the unification of Germany was achieved following the Franco-Prussian War. The German Empire was proclaimed and Wilhelm was granted the title of German Emperor. Even though he had considerable power as Kaiser, Wilhelm largely left the affairs of governance to Bismarck. Later in life he was the target of multiple failed assassination attempts, which enabled Bismarck to push through the Anti-Socialist Laws. In 1888, which came to be known as the Year of the Three Emperors, Wilhelm died at the age of 90 after a short illness and was succeeded by his son Frederick. Frederick, already suffering from cancer, died 99 days later and the throne passed to Wilhelm II.

Early life and military career

The future king and emperor was born Wilhelm Friedrich Louis of Prussia (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Preußen) in the Kronprinzenpalais in Berlin on 22 March 1797. As the second son of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Prince Frederick William, himself son of King Frederick William II, Wilhelm was not expected to ascend to the throne. His grandfather died the year he was born, at age 53, in 1797, and his father Frederick William III became king. He was educated from 1801 to 1809 by Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Delbrück, who was also in charge of the education of Wilhelm's brother, the Crown Prince Frederick William. At age twelve, his father appointed him an officer in the Prussian army.[4]

Wilhelm served in the army from 1814 onward. Like his father, he fought against Napoleon I of France during the part of the Napoleonic Wars known in Germany as the Befreiungskriege ("Wars of Liberation", otherwise known as the War of the Sixth Coalition), and was reportedly a very brave soldier. He was made a captain (Hauptmann) and earned the Iron Cross for his actions at Bar-sur-Aube, although the Prussian Army did not participate in this battle. The war and the fight against France left a lifelong impression on him, and he had a long-standing antipathy towards the French.[4]

In 1815, Wilhelm was promoted to major and commanded a battalion of the 1. Garderegiment. He fought under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battles of Ligny and Waterloo.[4] In 1817, he accompanied his sister Charlotte to Saint Petersburg, when she married Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, becoming Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.[5]

In 1816, Wilhelm became the commander of the Stettiner Gardelandwehrbataillon and in 1818 was promoted to Generalmajor. The next year, Wilhelm was appointed inspector of the VII. and VIII. Army Corps. This made him a spokesman of the Prussian Army within the House of Hohenzollern. He argued in favour of a strong, well-trained, and well-equipped army. In 1820, Wilhelm became commander of the 1. Gardedivision and in 1825 was promoted to commanding general of the III. Army Corps.[4]

Around this time, Wilhelm became romantically linked with his cousin, Polish noblewoman Princess Elisa Radziwill. In 1826, Wilhelm was forced to break off the relationship by his father, who deemed it an inappropriate match. It is alleged that Elisa had an illegitimate daughter by Wilhelm who was brought up by Joseph and Caroline Kroll, owners of the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, and was given the name Agnes Kroll. She married a Carl Friedrich Ludwig Dettman (known as "Louis") and emigrated to Sydney, in 1849. They had a family of three sons and two daughters. Agnes died in 1904.[6]

In 1829, Wilhelm married Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the daughter of Grand Duke Karl Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Maria Pavlovna, the sister of Nicholas I. Their marriage was outwardly stable, but not a very happy one.[7] In 1834-37 he had the Old Palace in Berlin built as a new family home, in which he continued to live later as king and emperor, while he only used the Berlin Palace for representative purposes.

On 7 June 1840 his older brother became King of Prussia. Since he had no children, Wilhelm was first in line to succeed him to the throne and thus was given the title Prinz von Preußen.[4] Against his convictions but out of loyalty towards his brother, Wilhelm signed the bill setting up a Prussian parliament in 1847 and took a seat in the upper chamber, the Prussian House of Lords.[4]

During the Revolutions of 1848, Wilhelm successfully crushed a revolt in Berlin that was aimed at Frederick William IV. The use of cannons made him unpopular at the time and earned him the nickname Kartätschenprinz (Prince of Grapeshot). Indeed, he had to flee to England for a while, disguised as a merchant. He returned and helped to put down an uprising in Baden, where he commanded the Prussian army. In October 1849, he became governor-general of the Rhine Province and Province of Westphalia, with a seat at the Electoral Palace, Koblenz.[4][7]

During their time at Koblenz, Wilhelm and his wife entertained liberal scholars such as the historian Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, August von Bethmann-Hollweg and Clemens Theodor Perthes. Wilhelm's opposition to liberal ideas gradually softened.[4]

In 1854, the prince was raised to the rank of a field-marshal and made governor of the federal Fortress of Mainz.[8] In 1857 Frederick William IV suffered a stroke and became mentally disabled for the rest of his life. In January 1858, Wilhelm became Prince Regent for his brother, initially only temporarily but after October on a permanent basis. Against the advice of his brother, Wilhelm swore an oath of office on the Prussian constitution and promised to preserve it "solid and inviolable". Wilhelm appointed a liberal, Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, as Minister President and thus initiated what became known as the "New Era" in Prussia, although there were conflicts between Wilhelm and the liberal majority in the Landtag on matters of reforming the armed forces.[4]

Life as King

On 2 January 1861, Frederick William IV died and Wilhelm ascended the throne as Wilhelm I of Prussia. In July, a student from Leipzig attempted to assassinate Wilhelm, but he was only lightly injured.[4] Like Frederick I of Prussia, Wilhelm travelled to Königsberg and there crowned himself at the Schlosskirche.[7] Wilhelm chose the anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig, 18 October, for this event, which was the first Prussian coronation ceremony since 1701 and the only coronation of a German king after 1806.[4] Wilhelm refused to comply with his brother's wish, expressed in Frederick William's last will, that he should abrogate the constitution.[4]

Wilhelm inherited a conflict between Frederick William and the liberal Landtag. He was considered to be politically neutral as he intervened less in politics than his brother. In 1862 the Landtag refused an increase in the military budget needed to pay for the already implemented reform of the army. This involved expanding the peacetime army from 150,000 to 200,000 men and the annual number of new recruits from 40,000 to 63,000. However, the truly controversial part was keeping the length of military service (raised in 1856 from two years) at three years.[9] When his request (backed by his Minister of War Albrecht von Roon) was refused, Wilhelm first considered abdicating, but his son, the Crown Prince, advised strongly against it.[9] Then, on the advice of Roon, Wilhelm appointed Otto von Bismarck as Minister President in order to force through the proposals.[4] Under the Prussian constitution, the Minister President was responsible solely to the king, not to the Landtag. Bismarck, a conservative Prussian Junker and loyal friend of the king, liked to see his working relationship with Wilhelm as that of a vassal to his feudal superior. Nonetheless, it was Bismarck who effectively directed affairs, domestic as well as foreign; on several occasions he gained Wilhelm's assent by threatening to resign.[10]

During his reign, Wilhelm was the commander-in-chief of the Prussian forces in the Second Schleswig War against Denmark in 1864 and the Austro-Prussian War in 1866. During the latter war, his army defeated the Austrians at Königgratz.[11] After the latter was won by Prussia, Wilhelm wanted to march on to Vienna and annex Austria, but was dissuaded from doing so by Bismarck and his son Crown Prince Frederick.[4] Bismarck wanted to end the war quickly, so as to allow Prussia to ally with Austria if it needed to at a later date; Frederick was also appalled by the casualties and wanted a speedy end to hostilities. During a heated discussion, Bismarck threatened to resign if Wilhelm continued to Vienna; Bismarck got his way. Wilhelm had to content himself with becoming the de facto ruler of the northern two-thirds of Germany. Prussia annexed several of Austria's allies north of the Main, as well as Schleswig-Holstein. Saxe-Lauenburg was already in a personal union with Prussia since 1865.

In 1867, the North German Confederation was created as a federation (federally organised state) of the North German and Central German states under the permanent presidency of Prussia. Wilhelm assumed the Bundespräsidium, the presidium of the Confederation; the post was a hereditary office of the Prussian crown. Not expressis verbis, but in function he was the head of state. Bismarck intentionally avoided a title such as Präsident as it sounded too republican.[12] Wilhelm became also the constitutional Bundesfeldherr, the commander of all federal armed forces. Via secret treaties with the South German states, he also became commander of their armies in times of war. In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Wilhelm was in command of all the German forces at the crucial Battle of Sedan,[4] as well as at the Battle of Gravelotte.[13]

German Emperor

During the Franco-Prussian War, the South German states joined the North German Confederation, which was reorganized as the German Empire (Deutsches Reich). The title of Bundespräsidium was replaced with the title of German Emperor (Deutscher Kaiser). This was decided on by the legislative organs, the Reichstag and Bundesrat, and Wilhelm agreed to this on 8 December in the presence of a Reichstag delegation. The new constitution and the title of Emperor came into effect on 1 January 1871.[14]

Wilhelm, however, hesitated to accept the constitutional title, as he feared that it would overshadow his own title as King of Prussia. He also wanted it to be Kaiser von Deutschland ("Emperor of Germany"), but Bismarck warned him that the South German princes and the Emperor of Austria might protest.[15][16] Wilhelm eventually—though grudgingly—relented and on 18 January, he was formally proclaimed as emperor in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. The date was chosen as the coronation date of the first Prussian king in 1701. In the national memory, 18 January became the day of the foundation of the Empire (Reichsgründungstag), although it did not have a constitutional significance.[16]

To many intellectuals, the coronation of Wilhelm was associated with the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire. Felix Dahn wrote a poem, "Macte senex Imperator" ('Hail thee, old emperor') in which he nicknamed Wilhelm Barbablanca (whitebeard), a play on the name of the medieval emperor Frederick Barbarossa (redbeard). According to the King asleep in mountain legend, Barbarossa slept under the Kyffhäuser mountain until Germany had need of him. Wilhelm I was thus portrayed as a second coming of Barbarossa. The Kyffhäuser Monument portrays both emperors.[17]

In 1872, he arbitrated a boundary dispute between the United Kingdom and the United States, deciding in favor of the U.S. and placing the San Juan Islands of modern-day Washington within U.S. national territory, thus ending the 12-year bloodless Pig War.[18]

In his memoirs, Bismarck describes Wilhelm as an old-fashioned, courteous, infallibly polite gentleman and a genuine Prussian officer, whose good common sense was occasionally undermined by "female influences". This was a reference to Wilhelm's wife, who had been educated by, among others Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was intellectually superior to her husband. She was also at times very outspoken in her opposition to official policies as she was a liberal.[7] Wilhelm, however, had long been strongly opposed to liberal ideas.[4] Despite possessing considerable power as Kaiser, Wilhelm left the task of governing mostly to his chancellor, limiting himself to representing the state and approving Bismarck's every policy.[4] In private he once remarked on his relationship with Bismarck: It is difficult to be emperor under such a chancellor.[19][20]

Assassination attempts and Anti-Socialist Laws

On 11 May 1878, an anarchist plumber named Max Hödel failed in an assassination attempt on Wilhelm in Berlin. Hödel used a revolver to shoot at the then 81-year-old Emperor, while he and his daughter, Princess Louise, paraded in their carriage on Unter den Linden.[4] When the bullet missed, Hödel ran across the street and fired another round which also missed. In the commotion one of the individuals who tried to apprehend Hödel suffered severe internal injuries and died two days later. Hödel was seized immediately. He was tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and executed on 16 August 1878.[21]

A second attempt to assassinate Wilhelm I was made on 2 June 1878 by Karl Nobiling, another anarchist. As the Emperor drove past in an open carriage, the assassin fired two shots from a shotgun at him from the window of a house off the Unter den Linden.[4] Wilhelm was severely wounded and was rushed back to the palace. Nobiling then shot himself in a suicide attempt. While Wilhelm survived this attack, the assassin died from his self-inflicted wound three months later.[22]

The attempts on Wilhelm's life became the pretext for the institution of the Anti-Socialist Laws, which were passed by Bismarck's government with the support of a majority in the Reichstag on 19 October 1878 for the purpose of fighting the socialist and working-class movement. The laws prohibited societies, meetings and publications that "aim[ed] at the overthrow of the existing political or social order through social-democratic, socialist or communist endeavours".[23] The laws were extended every 2–3 years. Despite the laws and their penalties, the Social Democratic Party increased its influence among the masses. Under the pressure of the mass working-class movement, the laws were allowed to expire on 30 September 1890.[24][25]

Later years and death

In August 1878, Alexander II of Russia, Wilhelm's nephew, wrote a letter (known as Ohrfeigenbrief) to him complaining about the treatment Russian interests had received at the Congress of Berlin. In response Wilhelm, his wife Augusta, and his son travelled to Russia (against the advice of Bismarck) to mend fences in face-to-face talks. However, by once again threatening to resign, Bismarck overcame the opposition of Wilhelm to a closer alliance with Austria-Hungary. In October, Wilhelm agreed to the Dual Alliance (Zweibund) between Germany and Austria-Hungary, which was directed against Russia.[4]

Another assassination attempt failed on 28 September 1883 when Wilhelm unveiled the Niederwalddenkmal in Rüdesheim. A group of anarchists had prepared an attack using dynamite which failed due to the wet weather.[4]

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 organized by Otto von Bismarck can be seen as the formalization of the Scramble for Africa. Claiming much of the left-over territories in Africa and Oceania that were yet unclaimed, Germany managed to build the large German colonial empire.[26]

Despite the assassination attempts and Wilhelm's unpopular role in the 1848 uprising, he and his wife were very popular, especially in their later years. Many people considered them the personification of "the old Prussia" and liked their austere and simple lifestyle.[4][7] Wilhelm died on 9 March 1888 in Berlin after a short illness, at age 90. He was buried on 16 March at the Royal Mausoleum at Park Charlottenburg, beside his mother Queen Luise. He was succeeded by his son Frederick III, who was already fatally unwell himself (suffering from throat cancer). Frederick III spent the 99 days of his reign fighting his illness before dying and being succeeded by his eldest son Wilhelm on 15 June.[27]

To honour him a large number of memorials/statues were erected all over the country over the following years. The best known among them are the Kyffhäuser monument (1890–96) in Thuringia, the monument at Porta Westfalica (1896) and the mounted statue of Wilhelm at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz (1897). The National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in front of the Berlin Palace was destroyed during German Democratic Republic by the government of East Berlin in 1950.[4]

Issue

Wilhelm and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar had two children:

Image Name Birth Death Notes
File:Emperor Friedrich III.png Frederick III, German Emperor and King of Prussia 18 October 1831 15 June 1888 (aged 56) married (25 January 1858) Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–1901); eight children.
File:Princess Louise of Prussia.JPG Princess Louise of Prussia 3 December 1838 23 April 1923 (aged 84) married (20 September 1856) Prince Frederick of Baden (1826–1907); three children.

Religion

Wilhelm was a Lutheran member of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces. It was a United Protestant denomination, bringing together Reformed and Lutheran believers.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

His full title as king of Prussia was Wilhelm, by the Grace of God, King of Prussia; Margrave of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Count of Hohenzollern; Sovereign and Supreme Duke of Silesia and of the County of Glatz; Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine and of Posen; Duke of Saxony, of Westphalia, of Angria, of Pomerania, Lüneburg, Holstein and Schleswig, of Magdeburg, of Bremen, of Guelders, Cleves, Jülich and Berg, Duke of the Wends and the Kassubes, of Crossen, Lauenburg and Mecklenburg; Landgrave of Hesse and Thuringia; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia; Prince of Orange; Prince of Rügen, of East Friesland, of Paderborn and Pyrmont, of Halberstadt, Münster, Minden, Osnabrück, Hildesheim, of Verden, Cammin, Fulda, Nassau and Moers; Princely Count of Henneberg; Count of Mark, of Ravensberg, of Hohenstein, Tecklenburg and Lingen, of Mansfeld, Sigmaringen and Veringen; Lord of Frankfurt.[28]

Honours and awards

German decorations

Source:[29]

Foreign decorations

Source:[29][51]

Wilhelm Island is named after him.

Ancestry

See also

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