2007-01-26 00:56:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Holland - after he abdicated one month before the war, he went into exile in Holland where he lived to see Hitler invade before his death. Kinda ironic, huh?
2007-01-26 01:13:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kaiser Wilhelm I lived between 1779 and 1888. During his life as Kaiser, his foreign policy was directed by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Both of them presided over the unification of Germany in what was known as the Second Reich (or second empire), and therefore, this gained them the enmity of neighboring states who were nervous about Germany's increasing military and economic power. Bismarck pursued a policy of friendship with Russia and Austria-Hungary, while isolating France after having defeated this last country in the Franco Prussian war of 1871. He was on peaceful terms with the British and indirectly helped the unification of Italy by forcing the French to divert troops from Italy and the Papal states during the Franco-Prussian War. The decline of the system forged by Bismarck started in 1888 under the reign of the Kaiser's grandson, Wilhelm II (after his father, Frederick III died of throat cancer following a 99 day reign). Wilhelm II would reign as the last emperor of Germany, until the end of WWI in 1918.
2016-05-24 01:34:37 · answer #2 · answered by Winifred 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both the German and the Austrian emperors (that's what "Kaiser" means in German) resigned and went into exile; Wilhelm II of Germany to the Netherlands; Karl I of Austria to Switzerland and then to the Portuguese Island of Madeira.
Germany and most of the states that the former Austro-Hungarian empire split up into became republics (apart from what went to Yugoslavia which became a monarchy for a while and to South Tyrol which went to Italy, also a monarchy at the time, and Transsylvania which went to Romania, also a monarchy).
2007-01-26 01:10:11 · answer #3 · answered by Sterz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Upon the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles in early 1919, Article 227 expressly provided for the prosecution of William "for a supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties", but Queen Wilhelmina refused to extradite him, despite appeals from the Allies. The erstwhile emperor first settled in Amerongen, and then was subsequently provided with a small castle in the municipality of Doorn, which was to be his home for the remainder of his life.
2007-01-26 01:07:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just before the WWI came to an end the Kaiser abdicated to the Netherlands where he remained until his death in 1941.
2007-01-26 01:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋