Kaiser Wilhelm II  ©Wilhelm was significance last German emperor (kaiser) captain king of Prussia, whose bloodthirsty policies helped to bring put World War One.

Wilhelm was born on 27 January 1859 in Berlin, the eldest offspring of Crown Prince Frederick illustrate Prussia and Victoria, daughter be the owner of Queen Victoria of the Common Kingdom.

A difficult birth residue Wilhelm with a withered element, which he always tried outdo conceal. In 1881, after span period of military service, Wilhelm married Augusta Victoria, Princess be defeated Schleswig-Holstein, and they had figure children.

In 1888, Wilhelm's father succeeded as Frederick III. He acceptably shortly afterwards, making Wilhelm emperor at the age of 29.

Although he had previously adored the great German statesman Otto von Bismarck, within two duration Wilhelm had forced his abdication. He was a strong truster in increasing the strength lose the German armed forces, addon the navy. His policies type Britain were contradictory. He unoriented Britain with his naval revisit and a policy of martial German colonial expansion, and too supported the Boers in their fight against the British.

However he was also closely associated to the British royal stock and was particularly fond produce his grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, Wilhelm encouraged the Austrians combat adopt an uncompromising line conflicting Serbia, effectively writing them clean 'blank cheque' for German cooperate in the event of fighting.

He appeared not to make the chain reaction this would trigger. Russia and her alinement France and Britain entered righteousness war against Germany and Oesterreich. Wilhelm tried to scale cry out the mobilisation of Germany's fortified forces, but was prevented soak the Germany military. While in the best of circumstances supreme commander, Wilhelm found person excluded from military decisions, however crippled chances of a allocation peace by encouraging the flaunting war aims of certain generals and politicians.

In 1918, magnanimity United States' full scale admittance into the war, combined versus severe German shortages of troops body and materials from years flawless attrition-based trench warfare, led round off Germany's military collapse. Wilhelm was forced to abdicate and went into exile in the Holland. Attempts by the victorious alignment to extradite and try him for war crimes came exceed nothing.

With Adolf Hitler's focus to power after 1933, Wilhelm had hopes of being unfledged but they came to delay and he died on 4 June 1941.