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Because he was the main actor in the unification of the German Empire, during the second half of the 19th century.He led a serie of war against Denmark, Austria and France in order to unify, under the Prussian control, the German Empire. He will be the first Reichskanzler (imperial Chancelor) in 1871 after the German victory over France and the annexion of the Alsace and the Lorraine lands.
"Imperial preference" refers to "preferred", that is reduced, tariffs available to countries or colonies under British rule &/or members of the British Commonwealth as the Empire was later called.
The German word "Reich" conveys a concept that can not really be expressed in English. Empire is about the closest that English comes to it but that isn't really equivilant. The way Hitler saw it, the first German Reich had been the Holy Roman Empire which was largely German. It had been abolished by Napolean. The second Reich had been the German Empire which was established when Prussia brought all the other German principalities under her sway in the 19th century. It was abolished in favor of a republic after the First World War. When Hitler put an end to that republic, he felt he was returning Germany to the imperial position which was hers by right, hence it was the third Reich.Michael MontagneAnswer1 Holy Roman Empire 962-1806 2 German Empire 1871-19183 Third Reich( 1933.1--1945.5 )
The Holy Roman Empire was abolished during the Napoleonic Wars, when Emperor Francis II abdicated after being defeated by Napoleon. The Treaty of Pressburg ended the Holy Roman Empire as it forced the Emperor to renounce his title as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, following which Napoleon created the Confederation of the Rhine, a French vassal state. This was replaced by the German Confederation after the Congress of Vienna, which then became the North German Confederation under Prussian dominance, which then became the German Empire, a single German state under a single monarch.
Unite all German-speaking people under a great German empire; enforce racial "purification"; national expansion (lebensraum)
Yes, German states united to form the German Empire under the rule of Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1871. This unification was largely driven by the efforts of Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian Chancellor, who used diplomacy and military conflict to consolidate various German principalities and states. The empire was officially proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles following the Franco-Prussian War, marking the culmination of German nationalism and unification efforts.
After the unification under Bismarck 871, the German Empire was a constitutional monarchy.
It was part of (and to a large extent was) the Holy Roman Empire, of which it was sometimes said that it was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. However, the German states were not under foreign rule.
Imperial Army or Deutsches Heer was the name of combined land and air forces of German empire. it was dissolved in 1919 after German defeat in WW I. Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt was the last commander of Imperial Army. Before him Wilhelm Groener, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich von Falkenhayn also commanded Imperial army during WW I.
The capital of the Roman Empire was not moved from Rome to Constantinople. Rome had already ceased to be the imperial capital under Constantine's predecessor, Diocletian. He designated Nicodemia (in north-western Turkey) as the imperial capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire and Milan (in northern Italy) as the imperial capital of the western part. Constantinople was just 60 miles to the west of Nicodemia. Constantine's designation of Constantinople as his imperial capital did not weaken the western part of the empire. Diocletian had created a co-emperorship with his fellow general Maximian. Diocletian was in charge of the eastern part of the empire and resided in Nicomedia. Maximian was in charge of the western part and resided in Milan. After winning tow civil wars, Constantine became sole emperor. Therefore, one imperial capital was sufficient and no parts of the empire were weakened.
The capital of the Roman Empire was not moved from Rome to Constantinople. Rome had already ceased to be the imperial capital under Constantine's predecessor, Diocletian. He designated Nicodemia (in north-western Turkey) as the imperial capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire and Milan (in northern Italy) as the imperial capital of the western part. Constantinople was just 60 miles to the west of Nicodemia. Constantine's designation of Constantinople as his imperial capital did not weaken the western part of the empire. Diocletian had created a co-emperorship with his fellow general Maximian. Diocletian was in charge of the eastern part of the empire and resided in Nicomedia. Maximian was in charge of the western part and resided in Milan. After winning tow civil wars, Constantine became sole emperor. Therefore, one imperial capital was sufficient and no parts of the empire were weakened.
The word empire is a singular, common, abstract noun; a word for a group of states or provinces under a single authority, a thing.