German Empire Deutsches Kaiserreich | |||||||||
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1871–1918 | |||||||||
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Status | Empire | ||||||||
Capital | Berlin 52°31′N 13°24′E / 52.517°N 13.400°ECoordinates: 52°31′N 13°24′E / 52.517°N 13.400°E | ||||||||
Common languages | German Polish (Posen, Upper Silesia, Masuria) French (Lothringen region of Elsass-Lothringen) | ||||||||
Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
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• 1871-1888 | Wilhelm I | ||||||||
• 1888-1888 | Friedrich | ||||||||
• 1888-1918 | Wilhelm II | ||||||||
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• 1871-1890 | Otto von Bismarck | ||||||||
• 3 Oct-9 Nov 1918 | Max von Baden | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• | January 18 1871 | ||||||||
• | November 9 1918 | ||||||||
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1910 | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1871 | 41058792 | ||||||||
• 1890 | 49428470 | ||||||||
• 1910 | 64925993 | ||||||||
Currency | Goldmark | ||||||||
ISO 3166 code | DE | ||||||||
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The German Empire or Germany ("Deutsches Reich" or "Deutsches Kaiserreich"or Deutschland in the German language) is the name for a group of German countries from January 18, 1871 to November 9, 1918. This is from the Unification of Germany when Wilhelm I of Prussia was made German Kaiser to when the third Emperor Wilhelm II was removed from power at the end of the First World War. In the 1920s, German nationalists started to call it the "Second Reich".