List of titles and ranks of Wilhelm II (German Empire)
The list of titles and ranks of Wilhelm II (German Empire) shows a selection of the many Wilhelm II (1859–1941), German Emperor and King of Prussia , awarded titles, ranks, orders and awards.
Kaiser Wilhelm II as German Grand Admiral (1905)
Titular
See: Titulature and coat of arms of the German emperors after 1873
Academic title
(alphabetically by university)
- Dr. iur. utr. hc from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (doctorate by Josef Kohler on the 100th anniversary of the Berlin university)
- Dr.-Ing. e. H. of the Polytechnic University of Berlin
- Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Cluj-Napoca (1910)
- Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford
- Honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. med. hc from Karl Ferdinand University
Military career
- January 27, 1869: Lieutenant in the 1st Guards Regiment on foot and à la suite of the 1st Battalion. (Berlin) of the 2nd Guard Landwehr Regiment.
- March 22, 1876: First lieutenant
- March 22, 1880: Captain
- October 16, 1881: Major
- September 16, 1885: Colonel and commander of the Guard Hussar Regiment
- January 27, 1888: Major General and Commander of the 2nd Guard Infantry Brigade
- June 15, 1888: Supreme Warlord of the German Army and Chief of the Navy, Chief of the (Prussian) Army
Executive positions and other honorary ranks
This is about the rank of chief (in Bavaria: owner) of troop units, whose name they often bore (the military command does not lie with the “chief”, but with the respective “ commander ”). The titles of general and admiral are also to be understood as honorary ranks.
Germany
Prussian Army
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1st Guards Regiment on foot
- Company commander of the body company of the same regiment
- Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm I." (2nd East Prussian) No. 3
- Leib-Grenadier-Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III." (1st Brandenburg) No. 8
- King Infantry Regiment (6th Lorraine) No. 145
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm II." No. 2
- Regiment of the Gardes du Corps
- Life Guard Hussar Regiment
- King's Uhlan Regiment (1st Hannoversches) No. 13
- King Jäger regiment on horseback No. 1
- 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment
- Grenadier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm I." (2nd Badisches) No. 110
- Infantry Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 116
- Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90
Saxon Army
- 2nd Grenadier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" No. 101
- 3rd Uhlan Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm II., King of Prussia" No. 21
Württemberg Army
- 2nd Infantry Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" No. 120
- 1st Dragoon Regiment "Queen Olga" No. 25
Bavarian Army
- 6th Infantry Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia"
- 1st Uhlan Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm II., King of Prussia"
foreign countries
Epaulette of the Imperial Russian Field Marshal 85 Infantry of His Imperial Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, Wilhelm II Regiment
Owner of the
- kuk Infantry Regiment No. 34 (Austria-Hungary)
- kuk Kuk Hussar Regiment "Wilhelm II. German Emperor and King of Prussia" No. 7 ( Austria-Hungary )
- kuk Field Howitzer Regiment No. 23
Chief of
- Imperial Russian St. Petersburg Body Guard Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III."
- 85th Infantry Regiment " Vyborg ", (Russia)
- 13th Hussar Regiment " Narva " (Russia)
- 12th Balkan Infantry Regiment "Balkanski" (Bulgaria)
- 10th Cavalry Regiment (Bulgaria)
- Royal British 1st Dragoons Regiment
- Royal Portuguese 4th Cavalry Regiment
- Royal Spanish Dragoon Regiment "Numancia"
- Imperial Russian Field Marshal General (1888)
- Imperial Ottoman Field Marshal
- Field Marshal of the Imperial and Royal Army of Austria-Hungary
- Royal British Field Marshal
- Royal British Honorary Admiral of the Fleet
- Royal Swedish flag admiral
- Royal Norwegian Honorary Admiral
- Royal Danish Honorary Admiral
- Admiral of the Imperial Russian Fleet
- Honorary Admiral of the Kgl. Greek fleet
Other (non-military) ranks and orders
As King of Prussia, the Kaiser was sovereign of all Prussian orders. When the opportunity arose, he put on the corresponding medal of the highest level. The German federal princes awarded him the highest honor in their country.
selection
- Ninth head and ninth sovereign and master of the High Order of the Black Eagle
- Protector of the Order of St. John
- Honor and Devotion Grand Cross -Bailli of the Sovereign Order of Malta
- Knight of the Order of the Garter (United Kingdom; retrospectively revoked in 1915)
- Knight of the Order of St Andrew (Russia)
- Knight of the Order of Annunciations (Italy)
- Knight of the Elephant Order (Denmark)
- Knight of the Seraphine Order (Sweden)
- Knight of the Order of the Norwegian Lion (Norway)
- Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Spain)
- Knight of the Order of St. Hubertus (Bavaria)
- Tupu Sili from Samoa
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Spendel : The legal scholar Josef Kohler and the University of Würzburg. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 461–482; here: p. 475 f.
- ^ Gaal György: Egyetem a Farkas Utcában , Erdélyi Magyar Műszaki Tudományos Társaság, Kolozsvár 2001
- ↑ Полное собрание законов Российской Империи . Собрание третье. Том VIII: 1888 год (Приказы № 4933–5685). Приказ №5356 от 14 июня 1888 года .
- ↑ Horst founder: History of the German Colonies , 4th edition, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, p. 183