The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of GermanyCambridge University Press, 27.06.1996 - 275 Seiten The book begins with a character-sketch of the Kaiser which provides new and alarming insights into his personality. It then looks, crucially, at the Kaiser's friends and favourites, at the neo-absolutist culture of the court and of Berlin court society, and at the nature of his relationship with the court on the one hand and with the administrative 'pyramid' in Prussia and the Reich on the other. The book makes clear that these bureaucrats and diplomats had neither the means nor the will to oppose the overwhelming determination of the Kaiser and his close friends and advisers in directing the policies of the most dynamic and volatile state in Europe. The dangerous consequences of this situation led to the brink of world war as early as December 1912. A final chapter reveals for the first time the appalling extent and nature of the exiled Kaiser's antisemitism. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II a suitable case for treatment? | 9 |
Philipp Eulenburg the Kaisers best friend | 28 |
The Kaisers court | 70 |
The kingship nechanism in the kaiserreich | 107 |
Higher civil servants in Wilhelmine Germany | 131 |
The splendour and impotence of the German diplomatic service | 150 |
Dress rehearsal in December military decisionmaking in Germany on the eve of the First World War | 162 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II and German antisemitism | 190 |
Notes | 213 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
All-Highest ambassador anti-semitism appointed army Austria Auswärtiges Amt Axel Varnbüler BA-MA Freiburg Baden Bavarian Berlin Bernhard von Bülow Bethmann Hollweg Bill Brauer Caprivi Catholic Chamberlain civil list civil servants Count court society crisis December declared Denkwürdigkeiten deutsche deutschen diary entry diplomatic corps diplomatic service document England entourage envoy Eulenburg to Bülow Eulenburgs Korrespondenz February Foreign Office Freiherr Friedrich von Holstein Fuchs German diplomatic German Reich Germany without Bismarck Göttingen Grand Duke Harden Herbert von Bismarck Hohenlohe Hohenzollern ibid imperial Jagemann January Jewish Jews John C. G. Röhl Kaiser Wilhelm Kaiser Wilhelm II Kaiserreich Karl Kiderlen-Wächter Kuno Moltke letter Lichnowsky Liebenberg March Marschall matter Maximilian Harden Merseburg million marks Minister monarch Munich Navy November personal rule Philipp Eulenburg political Potsdam Prince Wilhelm Prussian Ministry question Reich Chancellor Reichstag Royal Rudolf Schloss social Sombart Staatsarchiv Stuttgart Tirpitz Vienna vols Waldersee Wedell Wilhelmine wrote ZStA Merseburg
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