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Vor 5 Tagen · Kanzler Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg trug am 9. Januar noch einmal alle Gegenargumente vor, erhob aber im Gegensatz zu den Diskussionen in den Jahren 1915 und 1916 keinen grundsätzlichen Einspruch mehr. Am 9. Januar 1917 beschloss der Kronrat, den uneingeschränkten U-Boot-Krieg am 1. Februar 1917 ohne weitere Verhandlungen und ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Ebenfalls am 3. August sandte Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg ein Rechtfertigungsschreiben an die britische Regierung. Bethmann Hollweg stellte hierin die „Neutralitätsverletzung von Belgien“ als Konsequenz einer militärischen Zwangslage aufgrund der russischen Mobilmachung dar.
Vor 3 Tagen · On 16 July, Bethmann Hollweg told Siegfried von Roedern, the State Secretary for Alsace-Lorraine, that he couldn't care less about Serbia or alleged Serbian complicity in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. All that mattered was that Austria-Hungary attack Serbia that summer, to result in a win-win situation for Germany.
Vor einem Tag · On the contrary, the Chief of the Great General Staff possessed considerable influence over Kaiser Wilhelm II and was also able to impress his views strongly upon several leading civilian politicians in Germany's so-called 'responsible government', such as Imperial Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg and State Secretary at the ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Instead of skillful diplomacy, Count Berchtold of Austria-Hungary, Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg of Germany, and Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov of Russia all accelerated the escalation of the crisis, according to the author, due to ‘the poor intellectual quality of [their] decision-making’ and/or their outright, reckless ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Fischer (and Rohl), I believe, are correct in pointing to German plans for war and aggression and for demonstrating the secondary weight of Bethmann-Hollweg. On the other hand, Wilhelm in July 1914 - just as during the First Balkan War - proved capable of changing his mind and was probably not thinking primarily of domestic forces at all. Even if Austria-Hungary and Germany been constitutional ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Wilhelm was in favour of the dismissal of Colonel General Helmuth von Moltke in September 1914 and his replacement by General Erich von Falkenhayn. In 1917, Hindenburg and Ludendorff decided that Bethman-Hollweg was no longer acceptable to them as Chancellor and called upon the Kaiser to appoint somebody else. When asked whom they would accept, Ludendorff recommended
