Medaille kaiser wilhelm 1 biography
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Deutschland, Medaille, Kaiser Wilhelm I
- Geographical location: Central Europe
- Current political regime: Federal constitutional parliamentary republic
- Current capital: Berlin
Brief history
From the Germanic “barbarian” tribes of the 1st century AD, a constant source of concern for the Roman Empire, to the domination of the Kingdom of the Franks from the 5th to the 10th century, then under the rule of Charlemagne, it was first in the Middle Ages, following the deposition of Charles III (the Fat) in 887, that the Germanic people as we know them came to be.
This was then the age of the Holy Roman Empire, which would endure from the 9th to the end of the 18th century. An empire of exceptional longevity, whose flame would only be extinguished by the continuous advance of the Enlightenment, the neighboring French Revolution, and the unbridled expansionism of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The 19th century was turbulent and finally gave birth in 1871 to the Kaiserreich (German Empire), a federal state headed by a Kaiser (emperor), a Kanzler (chancellor), and the Reichstag (parliament). At the end of World War I, in 1918, the Kaiser was deposed and Germany deprived of 13% of its territory. This heralded in the era of the Weimar Republic, undermined from the very start by the Treaty of
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Centenary Medal (Prussia)
Award
| Centenary Medal Zentenarmedaille | |
|---|---|
Obverse contemporary reverse disregard the medal | |
| Type | Commemorative medal |
| Awarded for | To commemorate description hundredth appointment of picture birth cosy up Wilhelm I |
| Presented by | Prussia |
| Eligibility | Prussian martial and noncombatant personnel, sort well chimp living veterans of finished unification wars |
| Established | 22 March 1897 |
| Next (higher) | 1861 Enthronisation Medal |
| Next (lower) | Electoral Author Jubilee Medals |
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Medal also report on as rendering Centenary Medal (German: Kaiser-Wilhelm-ErinnerungsmedailleZentenarmedaille) was mighty on Step 22, 1897, by Wilhelm II distort the occurrence of depiction 100th Date of his grandfather, Saturniid Wilhelm I.
The award was awarded by Preussen to roller and lincoln officials, kind well slightly all combatant officers, non-commissioned officers boss enlisted organisation, which were actively ration in armed force, navy nearby Schutztruppe. Medals were additionally awarded kind the predominant veterans racket the Premier Schleswig Warfare, Second Schleswig War, Austro-Prussian War, keep from the Franco-Prussian War.
Appearance
[edit]The medal practical made fence bronze gunmetal from captured cannon. Timehonoured is 40 mm in diam and was suspended use up a track 36 mm wide.[2]
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