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Sechs Kriegsreden des Reichskanzlers (German Edition)
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Im vorliegenden Band werden Auszüge aus sechs Reden des Reichskanzlers Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg zusammengestellt, die der liberale Politiker im Zeitraum unmittelbar nach dem Kriegseintritt des Deutschen Reiches im August 1914 bis zur Beratung der sozialdemokratischen Friedensinterpellation im Dezember 1915 im Reichstag hielt. Unveränderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1916.
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(Der Erste Weltkrieg (1914-1918) forderte siebzehn Million...)
Der Erste Weltkrieg (1914-1918) forderte siebzehn Millionen Menschenleben und stellte die Weichen für Europas Zukunft. Das hier vorliegende Werk schildert den Blick eines Zeitgenossen auf die Verhältnisse und Umstände vor dem Krieg und während des Kriegszustandes. Der Verfasser Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856-1921) war Reichskanzler im deutschen Kaiserreich und vertrat eine liberale und fortschrittliche Auffassung von Politik. Der zweite Band schildert die Eindrücke Bethmann Hollwegs während des Krieges. Sorgfältig nachbearbeiteter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahre 1921.
Sechs Kriegsreden des Reichskanzlers (German Edition)
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Cambon's Volts-face - French Renaissance - Minority Influence - French Socialism - alsace-lorraine.
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Betrachtungen zum Weltkriege: 1. Teil: Vor dem Kriege (German Edition)
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Betrachtungen Zum Weltkriege: Teil. Vor Dem Kriege; Volume 1 Of Betrachtungen Zum Weltkriege; Theobald Von Bethmann Hollweg
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
R. Hobbing, 1919
History; Military; World War I; Europe; History / Military / World War I; World War, 1914-1918
Sechs Kriegsreden des Reichskanzlers (German Edition)
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Bethmann Hollwegs Kriegsreden
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Thimme
Deutsche verlagsanstalt, 1919
History; Military; World War I; History / Military / World War I; Reference / Genealogy; World War, 1914-1918
Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann-Hollweg as a German politician who was the Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917.
Background
Bethmann-Hollweg was born on November 29, 1856 in Hohenfinow, Brandenburg, the son of Prussian official Felix von Bethmann-Hollweg. His grandfather was August von Bethmann-Hollweg, who had been a prominent law scholar, president of Frederick William University in Berlin, and Prussian Minister of Culture. His great-grandfather was Johann Jakob Hollweg, who had married a daughter of the wealthy Frankfurt am Main banking family of Bethmann, founded in 1748. Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg was the son of a prominent commercial and agrarian family.
Education
He was educated at the boarding school of Schulpforta and at the Universities of Strasbourg, Leipzig and Berlin.
Career
After a rather routine rise in German political life, he became Prussian minister of the interior in 1905 and the imperial secretary of state for the interior in 1907. In 1909, after the fall of Bernhard von Bülow, he became imperial chancellor. As a conservative of open mind and modern outlook, Bethmann Hollweg seemed a likely choice to heal divisions, such as the conflict between civilian and military, that were developing in Germany at that time.
But in spite of some early achievements-such as the comprehensive social insurance law and liberal constitution for Alsace-Lorraine (both 1911)-he did not live not live up to expectations. His attempt to extend the franchise failed, and when Germany entered the war it had still not solved the problem of integrating the Social Democrats, the largest party in the Reichstag after the 1912 elections.
Diplomatically, Bethmann Hollweg inherited a situation as difficult as the domestic one, and he was no more successful on the international level. Germany was diplomatically isolated, and, worst of all, because of the naval race between Germany and England the relations of those two countries were deteriorating.
When the British war secretary, Richard Haldane, came to Germany in 1912 on a diplomatic mission, Bethmann Hollweg was willing to be conciliatory. He was overruled, however, by Adm. Alfred von Tirpitz and the navy, which pushed through a new naval bill over Bethmann Hollweg's objections.
Although the chancellor sincerely tried to preserve peace in the summer of 1914, he was unable to control the military establishment's pressure for war. In any event, Bethmann Hollweg himself-with his "blank check" to Austria and his "scrap of paper" remark concerning Belgian neutrality-was partly responsible for the developing crisis. His wartime leadership was equally indecisive.
He alienated the socialists and liberals by his apparent subservience to the military on questions of negotiated peace, annexations, and submarine warfare, and he alienated the right wing and the high command with his efforts in behalf of reform and civilian control of the military.
In July 1917 Bethmann Hollweg was easily removed from office, and the establishment of a military dictatorship in Germany was virtually complete.
He died in 1921.
Achievements
In foreign policy he pursued a policy of détente with Britain, hoping to come to some agreement that would put a halt to the two countries' ruinous naval arms race and give Germany a free hand to deal with France. The policy failed, largely from the opposition of German Naval Minister Alfred von Tirpitz. Despite the increase in tensions because of the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911, Bethmann-Hollweg improved relations with Britain to some extent, working with British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey to alleviate tensions during the Balkan Crises of 1912–1913. He did not learn of the Schlieffen Plan until December 1912, after he had received the Second Haldane Mission.
As a conservative of open mind and modern outlook, Bethmann Hollweg seemed a likely choice to heal divisions, such as the conflict between civilian and military, that were developing in Germany at that time.
Politics
His attempt to extend the franchise failed, and when Germany entered the war it had still not solved the problem of integrating the Social Democrats, the largest party in the Reichstag after the 1912 elections.
Views
Quotations:
He wrote to Count Sergey Sazonov: "Russian mobilisation measures would compel us to mobilise and that then European war could scarcely be prevented".
Connections
He was survived by a daughter, Countess Zeech, the wife of the Secretary of the Russian Legation at Munich. He married Martha von Pfuel, the niece of Ernst von Pfuel, Prime Minister of Prussia.
