Who actually ran Germany?
- Created by: matilda
- Created on: 08-04-13 15:52
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- Who actually ran Germany?
- The Kaiser
- The constitution gave him extensive power
- Appoint/dismiss the Chancellor and state secretaries.
- Dismiss the Reichstag
- Close relationships with other sources of power
- Historian John Rohl
- Limited grasp of politics and was disinterested
- often absent from Berlin
- More interested in ceremonial/social side of being monarch
- Delusion of power?
- Limited by the constitution
- The constitution gave him extensive power
- The Elites
- Junkers
- Officer corps
- High ranking professionals
- Judicary
- Senior diplomats
- 'Structuralist'- Hans-Ulrich Wehler
- The constitution had deliberately allowed Prussians to domimate
- Sammlungspolotik
- Exaggerated unity of the elites
- Declining influence of Junkers
- Emerging middle class
- Mass political movements
- Government responding to popular opinion
- The Kaiser
- 'History from below'
- Geoff Eley and David Blackbourn
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