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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 ...
Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1839–1914), Prince (1867–1881) and King (1881–1914) of Romania. Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia. Charles IV (1316–1378), King of Germany 1346, Holy Roman Emperor 1355–78. Charles V (1500–1558), King of Spain 1516, King of Germany 1519, Holy Roman Emperor 1530–56.
Germany quickly remilitarized, annexed its German-speaking neighbors and invaded Poland, triggering World War II. During the war, the Nazis established a systematic genocide program known as the Holocaust which killed 17 million people, including 6 million Jews (representing 2/3rds of the European Jewish population). By 1944, the German Army ...
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, May 6, 1944 – October 10, 1944 (5/5) Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, September 15, 1943 – May 27, 1944. Commander of Einsatzgruppe E, Croatia, October 1944–November 1944 (3/3) Commander of the BdS in Serbia, (1941 – January 1942) Executed by hanging. Eduard Strauch.
Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (left) with his parents and his younger brother, Prince Otto, in 1860. Born at Nymphenburg Palace, [5] which is located in what is today part of central Munich, he was the elder son of Maximilian II of Bavaria and Marie of Prussia, Crown Prince and Princess of Bavaria, who became King and Queen in 1848 after the abdication of the former's father, Ludwig I, during ...
Josef Ganz, car designer [388] Siegfried Marcus, car designer. Edmund Rumpler, Austro-German car designer. Jacqueline Van Maarsen, author and best friend of diarist Anne Frank. Hanneli Goslar, friend of diarist Anne Frank and holocaust survivor. Sanne Ledermann, friend of diarist Anne frank and holocaust victim.
This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany. See also the list of German monarchs and list of chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany .
20 January 882. Son of Louis the German ruled in East Francia, Saxony; from 880, also Bavaria. [ 4] Charles III the Fat. (Karl der Dicke)[ 5] 20 January 882. 12 February 881. c. 17 November 887. Son of Louis the German ruled in Alemannia, Raetia, from 882 in the entire Eastern Kingdom; from 879, also King of Italy.