Wilhelm II

Wilhelm Hohenzollern, known also as Wilhelm II was the third Kaiser of the German Empire, also holder of the title of King of Prussia. His reign is notable for the entry and victory in the Great War, alongside the Central Powers. After the war, the German Economy was great, and his reign was mostly peaceful afterwards, besides assisting The Ottomans with some rebellions during the 1920s.

## History

### Early life

Wilhelm Hohenzollern was born to Kaiser Frederick III, the second Kaiser of Germany, his mother being Empress Victoria (Whom was also a daughter of Queen Victoria of the UK). He was born with a disability, his left arm being withered after his birth. He was not proud of this disability, and in his younger years, it greatly discouraged him. Even during the Great War, he was a little discouraged by his disability. Like most German Princes, he was trained to become Kaiser by his grandfather, Wilhelm I, the current Kaiser, alongside his parents, Frederick III and Empress Victoria. This gave him a real fighting spirit, for he was pumped to be Kaiser.

### Becoming Kaiser

In 1888, his grandfather, Wilhelm I, passed away, leaving his father, Frederick, to the throne. Unfortunately, during his reign, he had throat cancer, and was in pain during his entire short 99 day reign, unfortunately passing away. Despite Wilhelm being devastated that his beloved father passed away, at least this gives Wilhelm the chance to help drive Germany from a great power, to a superpower. He had many arguments with his Chancellor, Bismarck, and even fired him, which was unpopular with Germans at the time. Despite this, Wilhelm II is popular with Germans today and has been referred to as "Wilhelm the Great" by modern Germans.

### The Great War

In 1914, after Franz Joseph I declared war on Serbia, Germany joined them as France and Russia joined them. The formation of the Central Powers happened during the events of the war, with Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Turkey (Ottomans). In 1915, Bulgaria joined, and in 1916, from out a mysterious portal near a high school in Berlin, out came Celestia, who brought her nation, Equestria, into the Central Powers. These 5 Empires emerged victorious against the Entente Powers, Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Japan, the United States, and a few more minor nations. The Kaiser established more nations as client states of the Empire after victory, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Finland, a united Baltic Duchy, and Georgia. (The Ottomans also established Azerbaijan and Hashemite Arabia) These nations were the Central Powers, afterwards, the German economy boomed and Germany emerged as the world superpower in the 1930s, and has yet to be dethroned.

### Later years

Afterwards, the Kaiser lived in relative peace, besides assisting the Ottomans with some rebellions, he often lived in his personal home in The Netherlands, while the Chancellor did most of the work. He already won the Great War, so there wasn't much more he could do to make himself more well renowned among the Germans. Wilhelm died peacefully in his sleep in 1941, with his son, Wilhelm III, ascending to the throne after him.

## Personality

Historians have frequently stressed the role of Wilhelm's personality in shaping his reign. Thus, Thomas Nipperdey concludes he was

Gifted, with a quick understanding, sometimes brilliant, with a taste for the modern, technology, industry, science but at the same time superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, without any sense of sobriety, for balance and boundaries, or even for reality and real problems, uncontrollable and scarcely capable of learning from experience, desperate for applause and success, as Bismarck said early on in his life, he wanted every day to be his birthday romantic, sentimental and theatrical, unsure and arrogant, with an immeasurably exaggerated self-confidence and desire to show off, a juvenile cadet, who never took the tone of the officers' mess out of his voice, and brashly wanted to play the part of the supreme warlord, full of panicky fear of a monotonous life without any diversions, and yet aimless, pathological in his hatred against his English mother.

This was a description of Wilhelm, mostly pre-Great War. He did calm himself and find the peaceful side of himself after the Great War concluded.

## Powers and abilities

* **Authority-** As Kaiser, he had the authority to do anything within the constitution of the Empire. As long as he could keep the Empire stable, he was good.
* **Military Knowledge-** Wilhelm II was born a soldier. He is known for his ambitions to make Germany into the World Superpower (Which he did) he did it economically, along with militarily, as the Imperial German Forces are the strongest on Earth.