Index
Aehrenthal, Alois Lexa von, 258–9
Afflerbach, Holger, 313, 344
Agadir, 201–3
agrarians, 75–8, 87, 90, 101, 117, 119, 128, 323
Albania, 260, 262, 267, 272–3
Albert, King of Belgium, 347
Albertini, Luigi, 291
Albrecht, King of Saxony, 60
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 33
Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, 12–13, 16, 172–3, 210
Algeciras, 200
Alsace-Lorraine, 156–62, 175
Andrew, Christopher, 212
Anglo-Congolese Treaty 1894, 179
Arnhold, Eduard, 351
Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (‘Dona’, wife of Wilhelm II), 11, 315, 348–9
Austria–Hungary, 169, 175, 191, 211, 258–60, 262–7, 273, 277–8, 280–84, 288–93, 299, 303–4
Bachmann, Gustav, 320–21
Baden, Prince Max von, 340, 343
Balholm, 287
Balkan War, First, 266
Balkan War, Second, 272–3
Ballestrem, Franz Xaver Graf von, 237
Ballhausen, Robert Lucius von, 52
Ballin, Albert, 129, 351–2
Bamberger, Ludwig, 42
Barnes, George, 359
Bassermann, Ernst, 240
Battenburg, Prince Alexander of (‘Sandro’), 13–16, 25
Bebel, August, 237
Berckheim, Siegmund von, 279
Berg, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 332
Berghahn, Volker, 188, 190
Berlepsch, Hans Hermann von, 54, 113
Bernstorff, Andreas Graf von, 366
Bertie, Sir Francis, 175–6
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, 150–57, 159–63, 166, 201–2, 204, 214, 261, 266, 267, 270–71, 287, 289, 292–4, 297, 315, 319–25, 327, 330–32, 344, 363, 365
Bieberstein, Adolf Marschall von, 170
Bigelow, Poultney, 350
Bilinski, Leo von, 300
Bismarck, Herbert von, 1–2, 15–16, 18–19, 21, 105
Bismarck, Otto von conflict with Friedrich Wilhelm, 16–17, 25
conflict with Wilhelm II, 22–4, 27–8, 45–6, 48–9, 55–72
court politics, 4–5, 12–17, 21
influence on Wilhelm II, 50–51, 54, 60–62
power of after 1871, 35, 38–9, 41–2, 44–5, 48, 167, 169
legacy, 212, 250, 336, 361
Bitter, Karl Julius von, 353
Björkö, ‘treaty of ’, 135–6, 194, 196, 206
Blackbourn, David, 47
Börner, Karl-Heinz, 44
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 245, 257–60
Boxer rebellion, 130, 233, 235–7
Brefeld, Ludwig, 132
Britain see United Kingdom Bronsart von Schellendorf, General Walter, 108–110, 113
Bülow, Adolf von, 9
Bülow, Count, later Prince, Bernhard von, 103, 105–6, 113, 116, 118, 120, 122–49, 153, 165–6, 176, 191–2, 196–200, 234–6, 238, 241–5, 247, 259, 363
Canal Bill, 117–19
Canis, Wolfgang, 257
Capelle, Eduard von, 286
Caprivi, Leo von, 73, 81–2, 87–91, 92, 94–9, 100–101, 106–8, 131, 169
Cecil, Lamar, 31, 53, 196, 208, 257, 311, 324, 351
Centre Party, 74–8, 86–8, 91–4, 129, 130–31, 137–8, 140, 166, 323
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 338
Chamberlain, Joseph, 181
Chickering, Roger, 323
China, 140, 185
Civil Cabinet, 116, 154, 221, 223, 232–3, 243
Class, Heinrich, 352
Cole, Terence, 143, 147
Conrad von Hötzendorff, Franz, 301
Conservative Party see agrarians constitution of the German Reich, 35–9, 47–8
Crete, 184
Daily Telegraph crisis, 238–47
Deimling, Berthold von, 161
Delbrück, Clemens von, 137
Delbrück, Hans, 250
Delcassé, Théophile, 199, 211, 236
Dernburg, Bernhard, 140, 353
Dobrorolsky, General, 293
Donnersmarck, Guido Henckel von, 133
Douglas, Count Hugo, 57
Eckardstein, Baron Hermann von, 175
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 167, 209
Egypt, 198
Einem, Karl von, 133, 138
Ernst August III of Hanover, 255
Erzberger, Matthias, 330
Eulenburg, Count August Ludwig Graf zu, 253
Eulenburg, Count Botho von, 90, 92, 97–9, 102
Eulenburg, Count Philipp zu, 55–7, 63, 66, 68, 70, 77, 87, 90–91, 103, 104–10, 112–13, 121, 123–5, 133–4, 145–8, 158, 172, 174–5, 186, 207, 225, 230–31, 238, 354
Falkenhayn, Erich von, 205, 272, 283, 290, 294–5, 298, 303, 313–15, 317, 329, 344
Fashoda crisis 1898–9, 211
Federal Council (Bundesrat), 36–9, 46, 59–60, 62, 71, 131
Ferdinand, King of Bulgaria, 207
Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary, Prince, 15
Ferguson, Niall, 214
Fez, 201–2, 204
Fischer, Fritz, 270
Forckenbeck, Max, 101, 106
France, 169, 171–4, 191–4, 196–204, 258, 261, 265–9, 286, 297–8, 314, 326, 357
Frankfurt constitution, 36–7
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 269, 274, 276–7, 299
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, 250, 260, 265–6, 278–9, 282–4, 287, 300, 302
Freud, Sigmund, 30
Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden, 60–61, 63, 103, 110
Friedrich Wilhelm IV, 2, 4, 11, 57, 80, 221, 230
Friedrich Wilhelm (Kaiser Friedrich III, father of Wilhelm), 1, 3–5, 8, 10–13, 18, 20–21, 25, 27, 84, 221–2
Friedrich Wilhelm Victor (Crown Prince, son of Wilhelm II), 11, 163, 355
Fürstenberg, Carl, 351
Fürstenberg, Prince Max Egon von, 161
Geiss, Immanuel, 270, 281
George V, King of Great Britain, 7, 203, 296, 347
Goering, Hermann, 356
Goldberger, Ludwig Max, 351
Gooch, George Peabody, 211
Gossler, Gustav von, 85
Great Britain see United Kingdom Grey, Sir Edward, 291, 296, 298–9
Groh, Dieter, 270
Güssfeldt, Paul, 84
Gutsche, Willibald, 260, 262, 274, 276–7, 353
Hague Convention 1899, 235
Hahnke, General Wilhelm von, 108, 110
Haldane, Richard, 267, 269
Hammann, Otto, 129
Hammerstein-Loxten, Ernst von, 132
Harden, Maximilian, 68, 146, 353–4
Hartley, Janet, 33
Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, 171
Helldorf-Bedra, Count Otto von, 231
Herbette, Jules, 171
Herrfurth, Ernst, 55
Hertling, Georg von, 240, 332, 340
Heydebrand und der Lasa, Ernst von, 240
Heyden, August von, 57–8
Hildebrand, Klaus, 270, 273
Hindenburg, Paul von, 314–15, 317–18, 323, 329–31, 335–40, 365
Hinzpeter, Georg Ernst, 6–7, 54, 57
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 7
Hitler, Adolf, 346, 350, 356–8
Hohenborn, Adolf Wild von, 311
Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Erbprinz Ernst zu, 137–40, 181
Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince Chlodwig zu, 99–101, 107–109, 111–13, 117–18, 125, 130–31, 175, 187, 234, 236, 353
Holland see Netherlands, The Hollmann, Admiral Friedrich, 185–6, 188
Holstein, Friedrich von, 20, 57, 65–6, 70, 78, 87, 103, 105–7, 121, 170, 172, 174–5, 182, 198
Hölzle, Erwin, 270
Hötzendorf, Conrad von, 277
Hoyos, Count Alexander, 284
Huene, Georg von, 94, 159
Hull, Isabel, 110
‘Huns Speech’ (Hunnenrede), 233–7
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Italy, 191–2
Izvolsky, Alexander, 258–9
Jagow, Gottlieb von, 288–92, 297
Jameson, Dr Leander Starr, 181
Japan, 180, 192–3
Jencke, Johann Friedrich, 101
Joachim, Prince (son of Wilhelm II), 315
Jürgensen, Theodor, 253, 255
Karl Alexander, Grand Duke of Weimar, 60
Keim, Major August, 92–3
Kennedy, Paul, 178, 200, 215
Kessler, Harry Graf, 360
Kiaochow, 185, 215, 217
Kiderlen-Wächter, Alfred von, 201–4, 265–6, 270–71
Klehmet, Reinhold, 244
Koenig, Robert, 81
Kohlrausch, Martin, 336–7
Kohut, Thomas, 30–31, 364–5
Kokovtsov, Vladimir, 302, 305
Köller, Ernst von, 110–12
Kopp, Georg Cardinal von, 93
Kruger, Paul, 181
‘Kruger telegram’, 181–3, 211
Lahme, Rainer, 169
Lambsdorff, Count Vladimir, 192, 197
Lamprecht, Karl, 222
Landtag (Prussian parliament), 4, 88, 134
Lascelles, Sir Frank, 174
Left Liberals, 62, 87, 142
Leistikow, Walter, 252
Lerman, Katherine, 132, 143, 149, 196, 242, 244
Lichnowsky, Prince, 297–9, 305
Lichtenau, Salza, 285
Lieven, Dominic, 44
Lucanus, Hermann von, 111, 140
Ludendorff, Erich, 314, 317, 323, 329–31, 339–40, 346, 354–5
Ludwig, Emil, 30
Lueger, Karl, 22
Lyncker, Moritz von, 279, 318, 332, 338–9
Mackenzie, Sir Morell, 20, 25, 27, 218
McLean, Roderick, 194, 208
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 179, 185
Malet, Sir Edward, 180–81
Mandelssohn, Franz von, 352
Margutti, Alexander, 299
Marschall von Bieberstein, Adolf Hermann, 108, 113, 173, 181–2
Messter, Oskar, 253
Metzger, Colonel, 277
Michaelis, Georg, 332
Miquel, Johannes, 79–80, 82, 90, 112, 132–3
Moltke, Helmuth von, 265–6, 267, 272, 274, 294, 297–8, 301, 303, 309, 312
Mommsen, Wolfgang J., 270
Monts, Anton von, 126, 151
Monts, Graf, 139
Morocco, 197–204, 257
Mosse, Werner, 351
Müller, Admiral Georg Alexander von, 268, 271, 279, 289, 319–20, 324, 338–9
Müller, Felix von, 244
National Liberals, 64, 87, 90, 129, 323
National Socialist Party, 346, 355
Naumann, Friedrich, 248
Netherlands, The, 343, 346–8
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, 121, 135, 172–3, 193–4, 210–211, 286, 292, 294, 299–300, 302
Nipperdey, Thomas, 76
Oldenburg, 103
Omdurman (Sudan), 235
Osten-Sacken, Countess, 105
Peace of Bucharest 1913, 272
Peers, Juliette, 219–20
Pflanze, Otto, 54
Plessen, General Hans von, 285
Podbielski, General Viktor von, 140
Polovtsov, A. A., 121
Pöls, Werner, 67
Posadowsky-Wehner, Count Arthur von, 100, 112
preventive war, 19, 271–2, 274, 276, 279, 284, 292, 303–4, 364
Pyta, Wolfram, 336
Quidde, Ludwig, 33, 227
Rathenau, Walther, 249, 351–2
Rebentisch, Jost, 229–30
Reichstag, 36, 39–42, 45–7, 60, 62, 64, 71, 73–5, 77, 93–4, 97–100, 117, 130, 140–42, 161, 186–7, 237, 239–40, 242, 330, 364
Reinsurance Treaty with Russia, 68–70, 169, 172
Rheinbaben, Georg von, 133
Rhodes, Cecil, 180, 183
Richter, Eugen, 237–8
Richthofen, Baron Oswald von, 128, 137
Röhl, John, 6–7, 31–2, 34, 77, 102, 106–7, 115, 124, 165, 207, 269–70, 350–51, 362
Romania, 286, 310, 317, 324, 326
Roosevelt, Theodore, 200
Rouvier, Maurice, 199–200
Rücker-Jenisch, Martin von, 243
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, 338
Russia 3–4, 7, 12–16, 19, 25, 55, 169–73, 191–4, 196, 201, 217, 258–66, 267–8, 276, 285–6, 292–5, 300, 304–5, 314, 329–30, see also Reinsurance Treaty with Russia
‘St Petersburg Note’, 258
Saxony, 50, 60, 97–8
Sazonov, Sergei, 273, 293, 300
Scheidemann, Philipp, 343
Schlieffen, Count Alfred von, 308–9
‘Schlieffen Plan’, 268, 303
Schmitt, Carl, 58–9, 106
Schön, Wilhelm von, 145
Schönaich-Carolath, Princess Hermine von (Wilhelm’s second wife), 355, 357
Schottmüller, Konrad, 84
Schweinitz, Hans Lothar von, 170
Senden Bibran, Admiral Baron Gustav von, 185–7
Serbia, 260–64, 266, 272–3, 277–9, 280–85, 289–93, 299–300, 303–4
Shuvalov, Count Paul Andreyevich, 69, 170
Siemens, Georg von, 133
Simon, James, 351
Simplicissimus, 229
Singer, Paul, 240
Social Democracy, 74, 77, 83, 122, 134, 143, 329
Sombart, Nicolaus, 362
Sösemann, Bernd, 236
South Africa Treaty 1898, 177
South-West Africa, 141
Sperber, Jonathan, 74
Stein, Hermann von, 318
Steinberg, Jonathan, 187
Stevenson, David, 285
Stoecker, Adolf, 22–3, 49, 218, 352
Stosch, Albrecht von, 215
Stuart-Wortley, Colonel Edward James Montagu, 239
Sukhomlinov, Vladimir, 301–2
Swaine, Colonel Leopold, 181
Szögyényi-Marich, Count Ladislaus von, 190, 278, 282–3
Tariff Law, 129
Tesdorpf, Paul, 29–30
Tirpitz, Admiral Count Alfred von, 113, 132, 185–91, 203, 215, 297, 320–22
Tisza, Istvàn, 279
Transvaal, 175, 177, 180–3
Treitschke, Heinrich von, 89
Treutler, Carl Georg, 319
Trotha, Lieutenant-General Trutz, 141
Tschirschky, Heinrich von, 137, 139, 144–5, 264, 280–81, 286, 292–3
Turkey, 258, 261
United Kingdom, 167, 173–6, 177, 180–83, 184, 187–94, 197–203, 213–15, 217, 235–6, 239–41, 265–6, 267–9, 289–91, 296–8, 305, 319, 323, 326, 347–8
United States, 320–21, 325–7, 348
Valentini, Rudolf von, 154–5, 162, 243–4, 246, 319, 332, 334, 338–9
Victoria (Empress Friedrich, mother of Wilhelm), 2–5, 7–9, 11–15, 17, 20, 24–5, 27, 53, 171–2, 189, 230
Victoria (‘Moretta’, sister of Wilhelm II), 13–15
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 3, 13, 182
Viktoria Luise, Princess (daughter of Wilhelm II), 255
Vladimir, Grand Duke of Russia, 207–8
Wahnschaffe, Arnold, 334
Waldersee, General Count Alfred von, 12, 18–23, 25, 27–8, 48, 50, 67, 72, 91, 120, 174–5
‘War Council’ of December 1912, 270–71
Warburg, Max, 276, 351
Weber, Max, 71
Wedel, Count Carl von, 88–9, 157–61, 224
Wehler, Hans-Ulrich, 42, 220
Wenninger, General von, 295
Wermuth, Adolf, 153
Wilhelm I, 1–2, 8, 10–12, 15–16, 20, 21, 24, 44, 65
Wilhelm II birth/conflict with parents, 1–2, 4–6, 10–13, 25, 27, 31
schooling/university, 6–9
and the military, 8–10, 92–5, 107–13, 117, 156–66, 223–4, 302–3, 307–18, 344–6, 365
foreign policy, early involvement, 10, 12–13, 15–19
conflict with Bismark, 15–1
7, 45–6, 48–9, 55–7, 61–72
and anti-Semitism, 19, 346, 349–56
illness/death of his father, 20–21, 27–8
and the press, 23–4, 149, 151, 204–5, 218–55, 333
insanity, alleged, 29–34, 66
and the German constitution, 35, 42, 44–5, 48, 365–7
and labour policy, 50–58, 60, 65, 95–8, 100, 114
political ‘programme’, 59–60, 62–6, 68, 81–5, 98–9, 130, 132–3, 139, 150
and social democracy, 73–4, 95–8, 100, 101–2, 139, 155
and the Centre Party, 77–80, 87, 108–9, 128, 130–31, 137–8
interest in science, 80–81
and schools policy, 81–6, 88–92
‘personal rule’, 100–102, 115–18
and unofficial advisers, 103, 104–7, 114
working habits, 119–22, 126
and coup d’état, 122
and Bülow, 123–42, 143–9, 153
and foreign policy, 125–6, 141–2, 149, 167–217, 256–306, 363–4
and ‘sinister circle of sycophants’, 146–8
and naval armaments, 177–91, 213–15, 318–27, 365
and speeches, 222–38, 334–5
and the Austrian Alliance, 257–66, 267
and the executive, 327–33
and public opinion, 333–9
abdication and flight, 341, 343
and the National Socialist Party, 346, 355
and the death of his wife, 348–9
and the Hitler movement, 356–7
the object of mass hatred, 359–63
Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland, 347
Wilson, President Woodrow, 339–41, 347
Windthorst, Ludwig, 63–4
Winzen, Peter, 176, 189
Yangtse Valley, 177, 217
Zabern Crisis, 160–61
Zedlitz-Trützschler, Count Robert von, 88–90, 92, 102, 219
Zeppelin, Graf von (Count), 81, 241, 251–2
Zeppelin airships, 81
Zimmermann, Arthur, 284
Zimmermann, Oswald, 240
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