Within two years, Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck.

A decade later, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer proposed a Franco German political union.

Wilhelm of Prussia (23 June 1585 18 January 1586).

Thus, Wilhelm unintentionally contributed to the outbreak of war in 1914.

Wilhelm flaunted his absolute power, believing it to be divinely ordained.

Wilhelm Filchner (September 13, 1877 May 7, 1957) was a German explorer.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, sometimes shortened to Wilhelm Jordan (8 February 1819 in Insterburg in East Prussia, now in Russia 25 June 1904 in Frankfurt am Main), was a German writer and politician.

The fate of his country (and of Europe) depended on how Wilhelm decided.

Wilhelm II became the leader of a country on the cusp of European mastery.

But Wilhelm did not in fact rule, as Germany s conduct during WWI made clear.

The modern process was developed in 1769 by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

Wilhelm had terrifying flaws and operated at the head of a deeply flawed political system.

In 1928, David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann posed the question in the form outlined above.

His father, Wilhelm, was a professional landscape painter his mother, Sophie, was a strict Calvinist.

In that context, UNMIL, in collaboration with UNDP and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, will provide capacity building training for women legislators.

Johann Wilhelm Ritter (16 December 1776 23 January 1810) was a German chemist, physicist and philosopher.

According to this principle, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman, and Alcide de Gasperi three of the EU s founding fathers would not measure up.

Indeed, as with postwar Germany s first leader, Konrad Adenauer, there are jokes about Merkel being Chancellor for life (Germany has no term limits).

Is today s Union prepared to reverse a course first charted by such titans as Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer four decades ago?

Parts of it were translated into German by Wilhelm Wolfsohn and published in an 1846 1847 magazine.

Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia acquired it in 1827 for the Berlin Museum, where it is still housed.

The first moment when decisive French leadership began to unify Europe came when Robert Schuman and Konrad Adenauer created the European Coal and Steel Community.

His grandfather, Wilhelm I, had presided over Prussia s military victories, which enabled Bismarck to create the unified Reich in 1871.

A Schlenk flask, or Schlenk tube is a reaction vessel typically used in air sensitive chemistry, invented by Wilhelm Schlenk.

The great British novelist Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski to Polish parents in Russian ruled Ukraine, said that words are the biggest enemy of reality.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 1 February 1957) was an officer in the German military from 1910 to 1945.

The Wundt illusion is an optical illusion that was first described by the German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt in the 19th century.

Wilhelm assumed the throne in 1888 at age 29, his liberal father having reigned for 88 days before succumbing to throat cancer.

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass ( 31 October 1815 19 February 1897) was a German mathematician often cited as the father of modern analysis .

The term has been introduced by the German sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer into the debate about migration and integration in the early 1990s.

Once war started, Wilhelm became Supreme War Lord, and his chief function would have been to adjudicate among rival elements within his government.

Optimism is founded on the theodicy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz that says all is for the best because God is a benevolent deity.

The University of Hannover, officially the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, short Leibniz Universität Hannover, is a public university located in Hannover, Germany.

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the USA from 1931 to 1959.

Four decades ago, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer approved the creation of new textbooks that children in both countries would use to help heal the century long Franco German antagonism.

I have recently been struck by an analogy from German history the disaster of German leadership during World War I, epitomized by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

In 1950, five years after the war, Germany s first postwar chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, also proposed a union this time between France and Germany as a way out of his defeated country s existential crisis.

On 28 29 March 1938, Hitler held a series of secret meetings in Berlin with Konrad Henlein of the Sudeten Heimfront (Home Front), the largest of the ethnic German parties of the Sudetenland.

Wilhelm also moved to America in 1837, and settled in Missouri, starting as a farmer and later becoming wealthy in the shoe business in St. Louis.

His party fellow President Wilhelm Miklas with regard to Hitler's victory in the German elections of 5 March 1933 did not take any action to restore democracy.

Two of his colleagues, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel and William Huggins, were able to confirm the existence of other lines of the series in the spectrum of hydrogen in white stars.

After Wilhelm II stopped engaging Russia in the 1890 s, bilateral relations worsened, which provided his ally, Austria, diplomatic carte blanche in dealing with Serbia and, more important, Serbia s Russian patron.

One of Kaiser Wilhelm II s great mistakes two decades later was to fire Bismarck, fail to renew his reinsurance treaty with Russia, and challenge Britain for naval supremacy on the high seas.

Education has played a big part in healing Europe's divisions. Four decades ago, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer approved the creation of new textbooks that children in both countries would use to help heal the century long Franco German antagonism.

Having engaged Turkey in the accession process, the EU appears to have abandoned Turkey, failing to live up to its decades old commitment made by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer to negotiate Turkish membership in the Union in good faith.