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Facts

Also Known As Wilhelm I • Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig
Born March 22, 1797 • Berlin • Germany
Died March 9, 1888 (aged 90) • Berlin • Germany
Title / Office emperor (1871-1888), Germany • king (1861-1888), Prussia
House / Dynasty Hohenzollern dynasty
Notable Family Members spouse Augusta • father Frederick William III • son Frederick III • brother Frederick William IV
Role In Franco-German War

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William I
William I of Prussia
Portrait of William I, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, with thick sideburns, wearing a military uniform adorned with medals, circa 1880.
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Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst
Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
German chancellor
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
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
Bernhard, Fürst von Bülow
Bernhard, prince von Bülow
chancellor of Germany
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
German statesman
Leo, Graf von Caprivi
Leo, count von Caprivi
German chancellor
Treitschke, Heinrich von
Heinrich von Treitschke
German historian
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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
Gneist, detail from an etching by W. Krauskopf, 1894
Rudolf von Gneist
German jurist
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Rudolph von Delbrück
German statesman
Carl Severing
Carl Severing
German politician
Eduard Lasker, engraving, 1861
Eduard Lasker
Prussian politician
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Friedrich von Bernhardi
German soldier and military writer
Joseph Maria von Radowitz.
Joseph Maria von Radowitz
Prussian diplomat
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Albrecht, count von Bernstorff
Prussian statesman
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Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
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Fritz Fischer
German historian
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Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist

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