698 Steinbach Nutcracker King Wilhelm
Wilhelm is a common name among princes,
kings and even emperors. Among the Germans Wilhelm I King of Prussia
1797-1888 is especially well-known. As Prince he fought the
unsuccessful revolution of 1848 which earned him the nickname
Kartatschen-Prince (case-shot) and a temporary escape to England. He had
to give up the love of his youth, Princess Radziwill, in favour of
Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar, a very liberal and tolerant princess.
As King of Prussia (1862) the “New
Era” began for him. He appointed Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor —
he proposed universal, equal and direct elections for the first time. In
his lifetime Prussia extended its power with a conciliatory attitude
towards its neighbour states. The communal victory of German armies
brought the crowning of King Wilhelm I. as German Emperor in the castle
of Versailles and with it the German Fatherland which had been desired
for such a long time, true to Bismarck’s motto: Patriae lnserviendo
Consumor which means I am consumed in the service of the Fatherland.
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