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...
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...
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...
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 Philipp...
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...
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 for...
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...
Wilhelm von Humoldt was born to a noble Prussian family on 22 June 1767 in Potsdam. Wilhelm, who was also the brother of famous Alexander...
Coming into 1863, the conflict between Prussia and Denmark had been escalating for quite some time. The main issue was about the Duchies of Schleswig,...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, as a child of an officer, was born in Stuttgart on August 27, 1770. Having studied on theology in Tübingen, he...
Enlightenment was an intellectual movement which concerned such things as God, Nature, Human beings, Reason etc. Center of the Enlightenment thought were the use of reason,...