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    German Empire

    German nation-state in Central Europe from 1871 to 1918

    The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic. The empire was founded on 18 January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, France, where the south German states, except for Austria and Liechtenstein, joined the North German Confederation and the new constitution came into force on 16 April, changing the name of the federal state to the German Empire and introducing the title of German Emperor for Wilhelm I, King of Prussia from the House of Hohenzollern. Berlin remained its capital, and Otto von Bismarck, Minister President of Prussia, became chancellor, the head of government. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The German Empire was for Hans-Ulrich Wehler a strange mixture of highly successful capitalist industrialisation and socio-economic modernisation on the one hand, and of surviving pre-industrial institutions, power relations and traditional cultures on the other. Wehler argues that it produced a high degree of internal tension, which led on the ...
    • German Colonial Empire

      An East African Askari soldier holding Germany's colonial flag. The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire.Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck.Short-lived attempts at colonization by individual German states had occurred in preceding centuries, but ...

    • German Reich

      German Reich (lit. ' German Empire ' or ' German Realm ', from German: Deutsches Reich, pronounced [ˌdɔʏtʃəs ˈʁaɪç] ⓘ) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 1871 to 1945. The Reich became understood as deriving its authority and sovereignty entirely from a continuing unitary German Volk ("national people"), with that authority and sovereignty ...

    • States of The German Empire

      The German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an imperial territory, the largest of which was Prussia.These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten, i.e. federated states, a name derived from the previous North German Confederation; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic) each had votes in the Bundesrat, which gave them representation at a federal level.

    • North German Confederation

      The North German Confederation (red). The southern German states that joined in 1870 to form the German Empire are in orange. Alsace-Lorraine, the territory annexed following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, is in tan. The red territory in the south marks the original princedom of the House of Hohenzollern, rulers of the Kingdom of Prussia.

    • Wilhelm II

      Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 - 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.. Born during the reign of his granduncle Frederick William IV of Prussia, Wilhelm was the son of Prince Frederick ...

    • Constitution of The German Empire

      German constitution of 1871, chart. The Constitution of the German Empire (German: Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches) was the basic law of the German Empire of 1871-1918, from 16 April 1871, coming into effect on 4 May 1871. [1] Some German historians refer to it as Bismarck's imperial constitution (German: Bismarcksche Reichsverfassung, BRV).. According to the constitution, the empire was a ...

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  4. britannica.com

    The German Empire was founded in 1871, after three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Prussia remained the dominant force in the nation until the empire's demise at the end of another war in 1918. Learn more about the history and significance of the German Empire in this article.
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich) was a proto-state which attempted, but ultimately failed, to unify the German states within the German Confederation to create a German nation-state. It was created in the spring of 1848 during the German revolutions by the Frankfurt National Assembly.The parliament elected Archduke John of Austria as its provisional head of state with the title ...
  6. britannica.com

    2 days agoGermany - Unification, Imperialism, WWI: The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year period Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France were vanquished in short, decisive conflicts. The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist feeling from the masses but through ...
  7. britannica.com

    The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year period Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France had been vanquished in short decisive conflicts. The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist feeling from the masses but through traditional cabinet diplomacy and ...
  8. courses.lumenlearning.com

    The German Empire (officially Deutsches Reich) was the historical German nation state that existed from the unification of Germany in 1871 to the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in November 1918, when Germany became a federal republic (the Weimar Republic).. The German Empire consisted of 26 constituent territories, most ruled by royal families. This included four kingdoms, six grand duchies ...
  9. germanhistorydocs.org

    Learn about the 26 territories that comprised the German Empire under Prussian dominance, and how their size, population, and influence varied. Explore a map and a timeline of Germany's population growth from 1871 to 1918.
  10. familysearch.org

    Jan 9, 2025GERMAN EMPIRE, [STATE] - HISTORY - BIBLIOGRAPHY Calendar Changes [edit | edit source] The Gregorian calendar is the calendar in common use in the world today. It is a correction of the Julian calendar that had been in use since 46 B.C. Leap years were miscalculated in the Julian calendar, so that by 1582 the calendar was ten days behind the ...
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