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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1867, the North German Confederation was created and William became its president.

Within two years, Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

During the Siege of Paris on 18 January 1871, William was formally proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

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

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.

Worse, he supported those groups that sought to increase German military power, including the creation of a high sea fleet that could challenge the British navy.

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.

To carburate or carburet (and thus carburetion or carburation) is to blend the air and fuel or to equip (an engine) with a carburetor for that purpose.

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.

He obtained a doctorate in astronomy in 1905 based on a dissertation written under the supervision of Julius Bauschinger at ' (today Humboldt University), Berlin.

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

The central figure in pushing for the development of an American acceptance market was Paul Warburg, the immigrant younger brother of a great Hamburg banker who was the personal adviser to Germany s Kaiser Wilhelm II.

He was given to bombastic speeches, once warning newly sworn in recruits that, if he so ordered, they would have to shoot their parents.

After the battle of the Marne (September 1914) and the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, some of Wilhelm s advisers realized that the chances for a military victory were slim, hence the need for a negotiated peace.

Because of a lack of male heirs under Salic law, on the death of Wilhelm II in 1921 the royal house had to reach back to the descendants of Friedrich II Eugen (ruled 1795 97).

China s new diplomatic assertiveness in 2010 closely following the eruption of the worst financial crisis since the 1930 s recalled that of Wilhelmine Germany.

He was intelligent, impressed by technological progress, perhaps even gifted, but untutored and impulsive he reveled in the trappings of power and delighted in uniforms.

As Austria was not willing to relinquish its German speaking territories to what would become the German Empire of 1848, the crown of the newly formed empire was offered to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

The army forced Wilhelm into exile in the Netherlands, where, until his death in 1941, he spread venomous poison where he could the Jews and socialists were to blame he alone was right.

The army was the very foundation of the Prussian state, a truth which both Frederick William I and Frederick the Great had fully realised the army had been their first care, and its efficiency had been maintained by their constant personal supervision.

For example, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismissed Otto von Bismarck as chancellor in 1890, less than 20 years after the formation of the Second Reich, and began to destroy Bismarck s carefully crafted alliance network.

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.

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.

By the 1890 s, Germany was the strongest power on the continent. But power generates opposition, and Germany s alarmed neighbors began to form defensive alliances.

In early July 1914, after the murder of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Wilhelm egged on the Austrians, but by the end of the month he couldn t restrain his own subordinates from starting a war, following the dictates of military strategy the famed Schlieffen Plan.

In 1932, he finished his PhD and, with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research of Heidelberg to Otto Meyerhof, where he did research on the development of flagellates.

The characteristic theme of idealism was that the world and the mind equally must be understood according to the same categories it culminated in the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who among many other things said that The real is rational the rational is real.

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.

This order the children did not respect, but met her in secret, which on at least one occasion caused Frederick and Wilhelmine to have to hide in the furniture in her rooms when Frederick William came to her room unexpectedly when they were there.