Wilhelm Power

Question 1

Powers of the Kaiser

Answer 1

Dissolve the Reichstag, pass bills through decree, appoint and remove chancellors

Question 2

The name of the Kaiser’s inner circle

Answer 2

Camarillo

Question 3

Eulenburg’s influence

Answer 3

Encouraged the Kaiser to act unconstitutionally and pass anti-socialist bills after 1893

Question 4

Names for weak chancellors

Answer 4

Bulow ‘The Eel’, Hohenlohe ‘Straw Doll’

Question 5

Kaiser’s involvement in policy

Answer 5

Caprivi’s education bills

Weltpolitik - Tariffs, continued alliance of steel and rye

Question 6

Tariff law

Answer 6

Bulow 1902

Question 7

Right wing pressure groups

Answer 7

Industrialist’ league, Pan-German league, Agrarian league

Question 8

Hotentot election

Answer 8

Zentrum and SPD critical of Imperial policy, nationalistic pride was emphasised - ‘unpatriotic’

Question 9

Failed policy

Answer 9

Bulow’s finance bill 1909, 1894 anti-socialist and 1899 anti-union bill both thrown out by Reichstag.

Question 10

Rise of the SPD

Answer 10

Credited with social reforms
Largest party for Wilhelm’s entire reign - 1/3 of Germans voted SPD by 1913
No influence could be exerted on the party for sustainable time

Question 11

Unconstitutional Tendencies

Answer 11

• Eulenburg

- Hollweg - received a vote of no confidence, kept in and used imperial decrees to pass bills.

Question 12

Zabern Affair

Answer 12

The Kaiser’s government had little control over the army, refusing to condemn the Zabern affair or intervening