Vol 5 Chapter 19: Weimar Republic

The recent news of the Hohenzollern family in Germany has been continually good news. First, Bulgaria supported the former Romanian royal family to succeed the King of East Prussia, and then the British supported William II to succeed the King of the Rhine Kingdom.
Both William II and the late Romanian King Carol I belonged to the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family in Germany, and the other big branch of the Hohenzollern family-the Hechingen roots, as early as It was extinct in 1869.
Due to the pandemic, the establishment of the Kingdom of Rhine and East Prussia were delayed. Of course, the Hohenzollern family was not sure about the throne.
European kings of this era are all face-faced, their heads can be cut off from blood, but their face cannot be lost!
This is the status quo of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family. As the loser, William II and Ferdinand I of Romania, both announced their refusal of the crown!
The same is true in history, while William II wanted to restore, but he was unwilling to abandon his face, and finally missed the best time for restoration and let Hitler come to power.
William II is okay. He has a son. The Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand will be in trouble. His son is uneasy. The famous "Carroll II" in history, now Already notorious.
The name "Does not love rivers, mountains and beauties" surpasses the popular King Edward VIII. Even before the demise of Romania, the crown prince was busy talking about love.
Of course, it ’s just a matter of talking about love. If it is from the beginning to the end, it may still be a romantic story, and the openness of Europe at the time was not unacceptable.
For example, studying Her Majesty Ferdinand of Habsburg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, people did not break the mundane restrictions, and the beauties of the rivers and mountains were both accepted.
It's a pity that Carol II, the playboy, can't do it. Because there is too much love, he likes the new and hates the old, and naturally there will be no supporters!
Such a king, it is estimated that the people of East Prussia will not like it. The Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family can no longer afford to toss. If there is another prodigal, they have accumulated hundreds of years in Germany. Is about to be squandered.
Then everyone started to worry, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Ferdinand didn't want the throne to fall into the hands of other branches, and his son was useless, making him the king of East Prussia. Maybe he will be caught in a few years. Expelled.
Bulgaria just promised to push them to the throne, but didn't promise to help them keep the throne. Once they lose the throne again, their line would have no chance.
Not only that, there are many people inside the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family who are jealous of the East Prussian throne. This is the foundation of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family.
It has been in business for hundreds of years. As long as he succeeds, he can quickly control the rights with the support of the royalists. The benefits are not small!
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Family-Ferdinand asks: "Butler, Isa, what do you think I should do now?
Little Carroll was uninformed. Many people in the family have expressed interest in the throne of East Prussia. My nephews have recently broken my door! "
The Elsa steward frowned. Should he consider this question? Originally, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand had many close friends, but as Romania was incorporated into Bulgaria, these supporters saw no hope and left one by one.
Of course, this is also a good thing for him. Otherwise, raising such a person is also a burden for the exiled Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand.
"Your Majesty, maybe it would be better for you to be the King of East Prussia yourself. Little Carroll is useless. You can still wait for your grandson?"
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Ferdinand smiled wryly, "Do you think of those illegitimate children? Do you think they will have hope? I'm not a master of rough minds, I don't have the ability to hold them up!"
Having said that, he surrendered his vision to Romania, and seemed to miss his old life. When he was the Crown Prince of Romania, he was so happy under his father's wings, but this has changed since he succeeded!
His father died suddenly, and he had no time to sort out the country. He was forced to become involved in the World War, and then he was defeated all the way and began his life in exile.
After hesitating, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand changed his mind again. The foundation of the family cannot be lost. Due to the relationship between the world war, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family has been severely damaged.
Not only did they lose their crowns, but they also lost a lot of wealth and connections. They were also destroyed in the midst of the war. If they wanted to recover, it would not be possible without 180 years of operation.
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Who will inherit the king of East Prussia, far from Sofia's Ferdinand does not care, anyway, as long as it is the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family, even if it is a stupid, idiot succession, it is not his business !!
Anyway, as long as he has completed the agreement and established prestige in the European royal family, it is impossible for Ferdinand to reproduce the power of Queen Victoria ’s European grandmother, and he has no daughter to marry!
But Ferdinand's prestige like that of European Uncle Edward VII is still possible. In fact, his prestige in the royal family is not far from Edward VII.
To establish the prestige in the European royal family, it is difficult to say, it is not difficult to say, in simple terms, as long as you are the defender of the kingship, and you have also helped to keep the throne, it is enough to get the majority of people Respected!
To put it plainly, this is a combination of relatives and interests, but it is more complicated than ordinary relatives, but it is still essentially an interest alliance, and the bloodline is just a bond.
If Bulgaria is not to be rejected by the mainstream European society, they must have a good reputation, but the reputation is a vain thing, saying that it is directly blown out, and it is no different from subsequent commercial blows.
If it was not for Ferdinand's hard work, it is estimated that Bulgaria's reputation will not be much better than that of a bear, or it will be hacked into the Ottoman Empire!
Feel free to feel comfortable, not even a small piece of meat, but don't mix it in diplomacy. For details, you can refer to the rough road of European bears. Germans are singled out by the world!
Palace Minister Carr took two invitations to Ferdinand and said, "Sir, this is an invitation letter sent by the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family. There are two invitations in East Prussia and The coronation ceremony of the King of the Kingdom of Rhine, June 28, 1920 and July 28, 1920! "
Ferdinand didn't see it, so he made a decision: "Let Ferdinand Jr. be notified, let the team take part!"
European royal families are also rare to see. In addition to weddings and funerals, only the ascension ceremony will have the opportunity for everyone to get together. Ferdinand naturally wants to let the little Ferdinand go out to see him. By the way, he can also make some friends. .
You fight alive on the battlefield. In private, everyone is still relatives and friends. There are still few who really form a feud!
The circle of the royal family is only so large. Basically, the major families have fought in the history. If there is vengeance, the royal marriage need not be carried out. All the have been enemies!
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Time passed quickly, and three major kingdoms agreed by the Allies in 1920 were established, namely the Kingdom of East Prussia, the Kingdom of the Rhine, and the Kingdom of Poland.
If you add the existing Kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony, Wurttemberg, and Prussia, it is seven kingdoms, 6 grand duchyes, 5 duchyes, 7 pro-kingdoms, 3 Hanseatic free cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck), of which the Kingdom of Prussia has become a republic with a central division, and the rest of the region is still a combination of kings, nobles, and parliaments.
The Weimar Republic was established under such extremely poor political conditions. It belongs to the territory that the central government can directly govern, and only accounts for less than 40% of the national territory!
Due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, the Allies gave up the liquidation of the aristocracy. In order to divide Germany, the French took a decisive step to help these states stabilize the situation.
Then it caused the special situation of the coexistence of 28 states. If it is only coexistence of multiple countries, there is no way to solve it. The problem is that the Germans lack an emperor who can take overall planning?
What the is that president? Can it be bigger than the king? The people of the major powers don't feel much about the president of this empire, and they can't control them anyway!
What's even more tragic is that the rights of these kingdoms and principalities have actually increased again. For example, they have the right to form an independent army, the right to conclude treaties with foreign countries, and financially independent accounting ...
It can be said that the French did a pretty good job this time. As long as the situation has remained stable, decades later, Germany will once again become a piece of loose sand!
Don't expect the British to help the Germans again. They just need Germany to check the French expansion, not a strong Germany!
Germany, which is torn apart, still has a strong national strength. At least the French can be restrained. They usually make their own troubles. Once an enemy invades them, they are still a whole. This is exactly the most hopeful scene in London and Sofia.
History has opened a new page again, but the Weimar Republic is still here. After the end of the World War, German Prime Minister Max von Baden handed power to the SPD chairman Friedrich Albert.
However, Baden's actions did not meet the needs of interest groups. Therefore, the next day a revolutionary government called the People's Congress was formed, consisting of three representatives from the SPD and the Independent SPD, led by Albert and Hugo Haas.
Although the new government was recognized by the Workers and Soldiers' Parliament in Berlin, it was opposed by the Spartak Alliance led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
The Social Democratic Party he belonged to won most of the seats in Albert's National Assembly for Parliament from December 16 to 18. As a result, Albert was able to convene the National Assembly immediately with a view to drafting a constitution and establishing a perfect parliamentary system, and the support for the establishment of a socialist republic weakened.
From November 1917 to March 1918, Germany was in fact ruled dictatorially by the People's Congress. Within these six months, the new government has been surprisingly positive, issuing a large number of decree.
Most of its activities are limited to a few areas, including eight-hour working days, domestic labor reform, agricultural labor reform, the rights of civil servants unions, local social benefits (divided into national and federal states), national health insurance, resuming demobilized workers, Combating forced demobilization and joining the system of appeals, the control of salary agreements, and the universal election of people over the age of 20 at all levels, at the local and national levels.
Well, these unrealistic decrees are just a matter of looking at it. In fact, Germany, which was facing economic collapse after the war, did not have any possibility to implement these conditions!
In order for Albert's newly established government to control the overall situation, Albert agreed with the Supreme Army Command, formerly led by Erich Ludendorff, and now headed by William Gleiner.
The Albert-Grehna agreement stipulates that as long as the army promises to protect the government, the government will not try to reform the army. On the one hand, the agreement symbolizes the military's formal recognition of the new government and reassures the middle class; however, the leftist government is considered to betray workers' rights.
A very strange scene appeared. The German revolution actually let the army once again hold power, and parliaments and political parties were reduced to military thugs.
The disadvantage of the United States is, of course, that the army's control over local states has declined. For example, in the South German region, the Bulgarian army initially controlled and after the withdrawal, the defense was directly handed over to the southern states.
And according to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, the German army has also been cut off. For example, the Kingdom of Bavaria has the right to form 10,000 troops. Naturally, people will not let the German military intervene.
The current situation is that the major powers control half of the country's army, and the central government controls the other half of the army. The balance of power between the two parties has been established under the control of the Allies.
A large number of war losses and compensations have destroyed the German economy, and the Social Democratic Party does not have any governing experience. It often introduces some policies that look beautiful, but in fact there is no policy that can be achieved.
Under the threat of leftist and rightist extremists, the Republic was in peril as soon as the country was founded: the left accused the Social Democratic Party of betraying workers' interests for preventing the Communist Revolution; the right opposed the democratic system and insisted that Germany return to its former imperial system.
Moreover, especially the right, including the military forces, in order to undermine the Republic, it even claimed that it had betrayed Germany and caused the country to fail in World War I.
These are just the beginning. Social security in Germany is rapidly deteriorating. Whether it is the state or the central government, they are bothered by the deteriorating economy, but they cannot solve it!
On the history of the Weimar Republic, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com advocated the idea of ​​reunifying Germany once again, met with resistance from major powers, the implementation of new economic policies, and resistance from domestic interest groups. Staged.
However, the eyes of the whole world are now focused on the Americans, and the three countries, Britain, France, and Bulgaria, have no intention to participate in German internal affairs, otherwise the situation in Germany will be more chaotic!
Looking at the collected German intelligence, Ferdinand's face was very ugly. The chaotic situation in Germany was indeed a good thing for Bulgaria, which facilitated the recruitment of talents.
At the same time, there is a new life in the chaos, and it is applicable all over the world. Once the German people are tired of this internal struggle, reunification will become inevitable, and where will the world situation go? Dinant is also confused!
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