End Of Bismark- End Of Political

Question 1

Kaiser Wilhem II

Answer 1

-post war, fled to never lands in exile
•lived there for 20 yrs
-died 1941
•age 82
-born 1859
-crippled arm at birth
-1897 made naval building programme
-1006 scandal with eulenburg
- mood swings

Question 2

Leo von Caprivi

Answer 2

• no political experiance
  -didn’t hate on socialists
  •could use polish language in schools
  •employed of under 13s was forbidden
  •women can’t work more than 11 hours per week
  •courts were set up for work disputes
• anti caprivi properganda campaign was set up by agrarian race over reforming the 1879 tariff act
  -reduced military service to 2 yrs not 3
  -fell out w Wilhelm over refusal to reduce socialist power and refusal to give the kaiser more power
• resigned oct 1894

Question 3

Hohenlohe

Answer 3

-chancellor 1894-1900
-age 17 in 1894
-called himself a ‘straw doll’ for the kaiser
-during his 6 yrs, Wilhelm was distracted with weltpoltik and sammlungspolitik

Question 4

Weltpolitik

Answer 4

-strive for Germany to be respected abroad
-means world politics
-Germany had 7th largest arm until admiral com Terpit was appointed as head of navy in 1897
-then 24% spending was on navy
-by 1913 Germany were in debt by 489 billion marks
-spd hated it as it meant more taxes

Question 5

Sammlungspolitik

Answer 5

-ralling together to inc national unity
- to create a strong right wing block against the socialists

Question 6

Bulow

Answer 6

• chancellor 1900-09
  -prior was forgein secutary
  -extended accident insurance (1900)
  -extended prohibition on child labour (1903)
• made a law to make industrial courts compolsory im large towns (1901)
• restored tariff act to prevent 1892 level
  -1905 propose a inc in indirect and inheritance tax but was disapproved by spd
• criticised for the way he handled hottentots + heroes 1904+5
  -conservatives, no and left liberals created the bulow block( blue black block) after spd didn’t want to send money for colonial administration
  -bulow removed ministers who opposed bulow block, eg pasodowsky replaced by Bethmann- hollweg

Question 7

Eulenburg affair

Answer 7

-1906 journalist harden published articles
-1907 he accuses Phillip zu eulenburg of having regular home sexual meetings in his castle
-gayness was illness due to 1871 criminal code
-Wilhelm abandoned his friendship with him and moltke

Question 8

The daily telegraph affair

Answer 8

-autum 1908
- Wilhelm sent it to bulow to edit but he was away
-telegraph went to the forgein officer who didn’t know he could edit it
-reichstag were ashamed but what Wilhelm said about Britain and wanted to limit his powers
-Wilhelm was hunting with Carl furstenberg who died of a heart attack in a tutu
- ruined his reputation

Question 9

Wilhelm’s personal rule

Answer 9

-referred to himself as the instrument of god
-did not gain personal rule
•was easily influenced
•was given a dillustion of power
•he was indesisive
•ruined his reputation
-he kind of had personal rule by
•he could reappoint chancellors
•sammlunspolitik gave him authority
•had a strong connection with military
• the bulow block increased his influence