Arresting the government and dissolving the German and Prussian legislatures, Bauer will be named the Supreme Commander of the German Empire and Leader of the National Salvation Government, and Waldemar Pabst his second in command. If Bauer is able to turn things around and actually defeat the ...
Companies had to adapt their strategies to these government-imposed constraints. Even though firms faced the same rules, they adopted different strategies – depending on whether they were parts of business groups, were owned by a foreign multinational enterprise (MNE), and on their type of ...
Germany counted among the earliest countries to adopt universal manhood suffrage in national elections, even though the democratic pressure of the parliament (the Reichstag) on the actual federal government remained limited. The Chancellor--until 1890 Otto von Bismarck--was, for example, answerable to...
Define Germanize. Germanize synonyms, Germanize pronunciation, Germanize translation, English dictionary definition of Germanize. tr. & intr.v. Ger·man·ized , Ger·man·iz·ing , Ger·man·iz·es To make or become German in form, idiom, style, or chara
The Russian Duma became wise of this, and called for war. The British Prime Minister of theAnglo-Irish Empireattempted to be a mediating force as a means to keep the focus on containing the Soviet Union. However, the calls were too great, and Ludendorff refused to back down. Both the Ru...
Government RoleHigher EducationRole of EducationSocial InfluencesUniversitiesThe German medieval universities entered the picture late but abo as a new type. Territorial rulers, city authorities and their boards combined the older types of Bologna and Paris and out of them formed the new "German type...
The Mughal Empire with its Persian influences in architecture, language and administration stands as a great example of this cultural integration. Popular Bollywood films and a shared love of cricket in the Middle East further highlight contemporary cultural connections. ...
After World War I, senior tank companies, such as Renault and Vickers-Armstrong, began selling tanks and other military materiel to smaller countries that could not afford their own tank production. Seeing this, Krupp decided that Germany needed to export tanks too. In 1935, the first proposals...
and that the German Customs Union would miss new chances of world trade in an opening East Asian market after 1858.Footnote47To promote its action upon the mercantile concerns and to make “moral gains” in Germany, the Prussian government of the liberal “New Era” decided in late 1859 to...
Surveillance and Total Control Tentatively though the German Empire's involvement in South West Africa had begun, with the dispatch of a mere three officials when the territory was first de- clared to be under German 'protection' in 1884, once Theodor Leutwein had as- sumed the office of Go...