Frederick the Great and Voltaire
On August 8, 1736, the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick wrote a letter to Voltaire, who was then a famous philosopher and a highly favored intellectual...
November 24, 2019
Prussian History
Enlightened Absolutism
Enlightenment was a time of radical rationalization and liberalization of the Western thought in the 18th century. With the religion rapidly fading away from the...
October 26, 2019
Revolutions of 1848
Foreign policy failures, economic crisis and social unrest intensified in the 1840s in France, the opposition to King Louis Philippe I. Demonstrations expanded into a...
October 13, 2019
A Short History of Berlin
Two medieval merchant settlements on the banks of the Spree, in the area of today’s district center – here the German capital has its origin....
September 14, 2019
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig was born on 22 March 1797 in Kronprinzenpalais in Berlin. His chances of inheriting the throne one day were seemed to be...
September 7, 2019
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt was in 1769 in Berlin. He was born to Alexander Georg, a Prussian officer and chamberlain, and Elizabeth Colomb. Alexander was the...
September 2, 2019
Helmuth von Moltke
Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke was born on 26 October 1800 in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He was the son of the later Danish Lieutenant General Friedrich...
August 27, 2019
Prussian Army in the Austro-Prussian War
Austro-Prussian War, or the German War, was the result of a series of political and economic conflicts that had been going on between Prussia and...
August 17, 2019
History of the Iron Cross
After Napoleon’s disastrous Russian campaign, a general uprising took place in Prussia and other German lands against his invasion. Prussians, having been under Napoleon’s rule...
August 10, 2019
5 Interesting Facts About Brandenburg Gate
There was another, smaller Brandenburg Gate at the spot of the current one. The first Brandenburg Gate, also called Tiergarten Tor, was already in use...
July 28, 2019