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Frederick William III: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born August 3, 1770 • Potsdam • Germany
Died June 7, 1840 (aged 69) • Berlin • Germany
Title / Office king (1797-1840), Prussia
House / Dynasty Hohenzollern dynasty
Notable Family Members father Frederick William II • son Frederick William IV • son William I

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Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in military uniform, wearing a fur hat with a prominent skull emblem and various medals and decorations on his chest.
Wilhelm II
emperor of Germany
William I
William I
emperor of Germany
Bernhard, Fürst von Bülow
Bernhard, prince von Bülow
chancellor of Germany
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
German language scholar
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
German statesman
Leo, Graf von Caprivi
Leo, count von Caprivi
German chancellor
Roon, engraving by K. Tetzel, 1861
Albrecht Theodor Emil, count von Roon
Prussian minister of war
Treitschke, Heinrich von
Heinrich von Treitschke
German historian
Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst
Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
German chancellor
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Heinrich von Sybel
German historian
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Rudolf von Bennigsen
German politician
Frederick III, 1884
Frederick III
king of Prussia and emperor of Germany
Hermann Von Salza
Hermann Von Salza
German crusader
Gneist, detail from an etching by W. Krauskopf, 1894
Rudolf von Gneist
German jurist
Droysen, engraving, 1884
Johann Gustav Droysen
German historian
Christian Bunsen, detail from a lithograph, 1831
Christian Karl Josias, baron von Bunsen
Prussian diplomat
Leopold von Gerlach, detail from a lithograph
Leopold von Gerlach
Prussian general
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Saint Bruno of Querfurt
Saxon bishop

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