Biskupski, M.B.B. (edited by)::Ideology, Politics, and Diplomacy in East Central Europe.
- gebrauchtes Buch 2003, ISBN: 9781580461375
Berlin, Verlag von Gustav Liersch & Co, 1911. Original photograph, cabinetcard, silver print, postcard, 14 x 9 cm. Photograph no 1948. William II (German Wilhelm II) (25 February 1848… Mehr…
Berlin, Verlag von Gustav Liersch & Co, 1911. Original photograph, cabinetcard, silver print, postcard, 14 x 9 cm. Photograph no 1948. William II (German Wilhelm II) (25 February 1848 in Stuttgart - 2 October 1921 in Bebenhausen) was the last King of Württemberg. He ruled from 6 October 1891 until the abolition of the kingdom on 30 November 1918. Frederick was born the son of Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808-1870) by his wife Princess Catherine Frederica of Württemberg (1821-1898), herself the daughter of King William I of Württemberg (1781-1864). His parents were first cousins, being the children of two brothers, and Frederick was their only child. Frederick's growing years coincided with a progressive diminished of Württemberg's sovereignty and international presence, concomitant with the process of German unification. In 1870, Württemberg took the side of Prussia in the Franco-German War. In 1871, Württemberg became a State of the German Reich, a significant limitation on its sovereignty. Frederick's father died in 1870, but his mother lived to see him seated on the throne of Württemberg. In 1891, William succeeded his childless maternal uncle, King Charles I (1823-1891) and became King of Württemberg. This was not, as it may seem, a departure from the Salic law which governed succession in the German states; his claim to the throne came because he was the nearest agnatic heir of his maternal uncle, as the senior male-line descendant of Frederick I of Württemberg through his younger son Prince Paul. On 15 February 1877 at Arolsen he married Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1857-1882). They had three children: Princess Pauline of Württemberg (19 December 1877 - 7 May 1965); married in 1898 William Frederick, Prince of Wied (1872-1945), and had issue. Prince Ulrich of Württemberg (28 July 1880 - 28 December 1880), died in infancy. A stillborn daughter (24 April 1882) Marie died on 30 April 1882 in Stuttgart, from complications resulting from the birth of her third child. William, already depressed by the death of his only son, is said never to have recovered from this blow. Nevertheless, he was King and it was his duty to secure the succession. On 8 April 1886, at Bückeburg, he married Princess Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe (1864-1946). They had no children. With William II's death in 1921 without male issue, the royal branch of the House of Württemberg became extinct and the headship of the house devolved to Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg. King William became a Generalfeldmarschall during World War I. In 1918, he was deposed from the throne along with the other German rulers. King William finally abdicated on 30 November 1918. He died in 1921 at Bebenhausen. Considered to be a popular monarch, Frederick had the habit of walking his two dogs in public parks in Stuttgart without being attended by bodyguards or the like. During these excursions, he would often be greeted by his subjects with a simple Herr König ("Mister King"). Despite living in a landlocked kingdom, William II was a ship enthusiast. The king was instrumental in the establishment of the Württembergischer Yacht Club (formerly "Königlich Württembergischer Yacht-Club" or Royal Yacht Club of Württemberg) in 1911 on Lake Constance. - - - Princess Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe (10 October 1864-16 July 1946) was the daughter of Prince Wilhelm Karl August of Schaumburg-Lippe, and his wife, Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau. As the second wife of King William II of Württemberg she became Queen Charlotte of Württemberg. She was not only the last queen of Württemberg, but the last surviving queen of any German state. Charlotte was born in Schloss Ratiborschitz, Bohemia (now Ratiborice, Ceská Skalice, Czech Republic), and grew up on the princely estate at Náchod. Besides general cultural interests such as music and art she was also very keen on sporting pursuits such as swimming, tennis, cycling and - unusually for a woman of the time - skiing. She also had an extraordinary passion for hunting. On 8 April 1886 she married the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Crown Prince Wilhelm, who succeeded in 1891 as King William II of Württemberg (Wilhelm II. von Württemberg). She was his second wife, and like her predecessor Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont was held to be of no political consequence. If the marriage had taken place for reasons of state - Wilhelm had no male heir - it was a miscalculation, as Charlotte produced no children. As a princess of Württemberg she lived initially in Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart, but as queen in the Wilhelmspalais in Stuttgart. From June to October the royal couple moved to their residence at Friedrichshafen. Finally in November/December Wilhelm and Charlotte regularly took a two-week hunting holiday in Schloss Bebenhausen (the former Bebenhausen Abbey) at Bebenhausen near Tübingen, which after the revolution of 1918 became Charlotte's permanent home. In 1890, William brought his new wife to England, where the Duchess of York commented, "We liked Charlotte very much, she is a good honest soul tho' rather too brusque, she seems to get on well with all the members of the Württemberg family which denotes great tact". (Wikipedia). KEYWORDS:photo/germany/wurtemberg, London : Cape, 1941, 1941. Very Good. 249 pp. ; orange-tan cloth with brown lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, date due, pocket ; foxed ; LCCN: 40-31076 ; OCLC: 643266 ; LC: DD247.S8; Dewey: 943.085 ; "Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the Hitlerite faction. He formed the Black Front, a group intended to split the Nazi Party and take it from the grasp of Hitler. This group also functioned during his exile and World War II as a secret opposition group. Strasser fled first to Austria, then to Prague (where he resisted Hitler), Switzerland and France. In 1940, he went to Bermuda by way of Portugal, leaving a wife and two children behind in Switzerland. In 1941, he emigrated to Canada, where he was the famed "Prisoner of Ottawa". During this time, Goebbels denounced Strasser as the Nazis' "Public Enemy Number One" and a price of $500,000 was set on his head. He settled for a time in Montreal. In 1942, he lived for a time in Clarence, Nova Scotia on a farm owned by a German-speaking Czech Adolph Schmidt, then moved to nearby Paradise, where he lived for more than a decade in a rented apartment above a general store. As an influential and uncondemned former Nazi Party member still faithful to many doctrines of National Socialism, he was prevented from returning to West Germany after the war, first by the Allied powers and then by the West German government. During his exile, he wrote articles on the Third Reich and Nazi leadership for a number of British, American and Canadian newspapers, including the New Statesman, and a series for the Montreal Gazette, which was ghostwritten by then Gazette reporter and later politician Donald C. MacDonald. Strasser was allowed to return to Germany in 1955 by a ruling of the Federal Administrative Court (after having previously been denied entry by the West German government) and regained his citizenship settling in Munich. He attempted to create his own, new, "nationalist and socialist"-oriented party in 1956, the German Social Union (often called a successor to the 1949-1952 forbidden Socialist Reich Party of Germany), but it was unable to attract support. For the rest of his life, Strasser continued to call for and propagate neo-Nazism until his death in Munich in 1974." ; Contents: My first meeting with Hitler -- The German cauldron -- The conspirators of the Burgerbrau -- Hitler writes Mein Kampf -- The man Hitler -- Hitlerism versus Strasserism -- Open combat -- Through treason to power -- The Gestapo on my heels -- The German blood-bath -- Hitler, master of Europe -- The future against Hitler -- Postscript, June 1, 1940 ; fascinating account by the socialist brother of Nazi Gregor Strasser, and one of the earlier accounts of the Nazi concentration camps ; VG, London : Cape, 1941, 1941, -University of Rochester Press, 2003-. Rochester Studies in Central Europe. First edition. 248 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. No region of the world has been more affected by the various movements of the twentieth century than East Central Europe. Broadly defined as comprising the historic territories of the Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, and Slovaks, East Central Europe has been shaped by the interaction of politics, ideology, and diplomacy, especially by the policies of the Great Powers towards the east of Europe. This book addresses Czech politics in Moravia and Czech politics in Bohemia in the nineteenth century, the international politics of relief during World War I, the Morgenthau Mission and the Polish Pogroms of 1919, the Hitler-Stalin Pact and its influence on Poland in 1939, Hungarian-Americans during World War II, and Polish-East German relations after World War II. The contributors are: Bruce Garver, M. B. B. Biskupski, Neal Pease, William L. Blackwood, Anna M. Cienciala, Steven Bela Vardy, and Douglas Selvage., -University of Rochester Press, 2003-<
