Why did Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicate?

Answer 1

There was a revolution in Germany in November 1918 and the army did nothing to uphold the monarchy, so Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to the Netherlands and abdicated.

To fill it out the answer, the facts of the abdication are pretty much like this:

The abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II was announced by the German government on November 9, 1918, two days before the armistice that ended the war. Woodrow Wilson, the US President, had declared there would be no negotiation with the Kaiser and Germany was desparate to end the war. The announcement of the abdication was made regardless of Wilhelm's wishes. Even his staunch ally, von Hindenberg, succumbed to its inevitability.

Having, in many ways, instigated the war, as it went on its sorry way, he became increasingly relegated to a figure-head role, though quite a meddlesome one. By the last phases of the war Wilhelm himself was almost totally isolated, with no power base. Elite troops of the army mutinied in November 1918 and there were fears of a Soviet-style revolution in Germany. Wilhelm escaped into exile in Holland, a neutral state throughout the war, a day after the abdication. The Dutch refused to hand him over to the Allies for trial as a war criminal and he died there in 1941.

Answer 2

Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne because he no longer had the support of either the police or army units in Petrograd where over 200,000 people were demonstrating against his inept rule over Russia. Not only did the army units there refuse to obey his orders to put down the riots, but many even joined the rioters. Nicholas's ministers convinced him that the people wanted him out and that only his abdication would stop the riots. Nicholas realized he was powerless.

Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne on March 2, (according to the Russian Julian calendar; March 15 according to the western Gregorian calendar), in 1917. He signed an abdication document stepping down from the throne and nominating his brother Michael to succeed him. Michael refused.

Nicholas and his family were placed under arrest by the Provisional Government. When the Bolsheviks overthrew that government in October 1917, they took custody of the Tsar and his family and kept them alive until the night of July 16-early morning 17, 1918. At that time, on orders from Lenin, members of the Cheka and Red Army murdered all of them and several servants in order to prevent them from from being captured by opposing forces during the Russian Civil War. Thus, there would be no way to ever restore the Tsar to the throne.

Answer 3

Many german emperors gave up their thrones dude to death or illness. One german emperror died of throat cancer while another one with the same afliction reigned for many years under a rumor that he was weak.

Answer 4

He moved to Holland and later died of illness in Doorn, Netherlands. He was buried with military honors by Hitler without the swastika flag.

Answer 5

cuz therev was economic problems and the German s aims were to over throw the National party! A new constitution was being set.