Kaiser Wilhelm II

### Marital status

Widower to Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
Married to Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz

### Place of birth

Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia

## Physical description

### Gender

Man

**Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert** **of the House Hohenzollern** or **Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany** (1859- 1941) is a historic emperor of Germany and king of Prussia.

## History

### Biography

Wilhelm II was the grandson of Queen Victoria of Britain who ascended to the head of the German Empire in 1888. Wilhelm was kaiser amidst World War I. Wilhelm had many children, with his youngest having been Prince Joachim.

In 1916, Joachim travelled to London, England and later the Amazon rainforest to pursue the Tears of the Moon, an enchanted tree which could cure any sickness and reserve a German victory in the war. Ultimately, Joachim died on this mission after a confrontation with boatsman Frank Wolff and explorer Lily Houghton in the Tears of the Moon's temple.

At the end of the war, the people of Germany revolted against the Kaiser and deposed of the German royal family. Wilhelm's power ended the November 9, 1918, leaving the German people to establish the Weimar Republic in 1919. Wilhelm would have died in the June of 1941.

## Jungle Cruise appearances

### Film

#### Jungle Cruise

Wilhelm II is mentioned as the father of Prince Joachim in this film.

### Other connections

#### The African Queen

This film's main-antagonists were the German Empire in the August of 1914, at the beginning of World War I.  Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer team up to kill their officers in German-Africa by blowing them up with the boat, *The African Queen*.

#### Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones fought as a soldier and later agent against the Germans during World War I. He was mentioned directly and indirectly in several Indiana Jones materials.

#### Jungle Cruise (attraction)

Wilhelm II's historic German grandfather Albert, Prince Consort is indirectly mentioned by Nigel Greenwater in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise via the, "Prince Albert School" located in Adventureland.

#### The Land That Time Forgot

The main characters of this Edgar Rice Burroughs book were British and German officers stranded on the isle of Caprona in the year 1916.

## Differences from history

### Biography

Wilhelm II was son of Kaiser Frederick III and Victoria, Princess Royal. Both Wilhelm's grandfather and father died in 1888 resulting in Wilhem II's ascension to the throne. Wilhelm was fixated on cementing Germany as a global power and caused them to become Europe's largest manufacturer. In addition to being imperialist, power obsessed and classist he was also an outspoken anti-semite xenophobe who made enemies with other nations and peoples.

The kaiser's regime would lead to the start of World War I or, "The Great War". During said time, Wilhelm was an absentee ruler who often had his military council rule for him. Following the German revolution, the empire was abdicated with Wilhelm fleeing to the Netherlands. He was not active in German politics during World War II due to his failures having been used by the nazis as a political straw-man, but he sympathized with the anti-Semitic Nazi cause.

Wilhelm died in 1941 of a pulmonary embolism and his corpse was transferred to Germany to be used as propaganda for Hitler.

## Trivia

* The kaiser was mentioned in the film *Atlantis: The Lost Empire* (2001), a film connected to the character of Captain Mary Oceaneer who appears in the Jungle Cruise.