Iron Kingdom : The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (151 page)

Twesten, Karl
517
,
544

Uckermark,
2
,
3
,
22
,
35
,
45
,
92
,
151
,
154
,
165
–6

university reforms
331
,
332
–3,

Ursinus, Erhard
177
–8,
181

Valentin, Veit
168

Valmy, Battle of (1792)
288
–9

Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August
375
,
463
–4,
470
–71,
472

Veblen, Thorstein
671
–2

Versailles, First Treaty of (1 May 1756)
198

Versailles, Second Treaty of (1 May 1757)
200

Versailles, Third Treaty of (March 1759)
201

Versailles Treaty of 1919: impact on Prussia
620
,
629
,
756

Vincent, Philip
32

Vincke, Friedrich Ludwig von
346
,
349

Virchow, Rudolf
571

Voigt, Friedrich Wilhelm
596
–9

Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de xxv,
187

Wagner, Adolph
616
–17

Waldeck, Benedikt
480

Waldeck, George Frederick von
61

Wars of Liberation:
365
–372; patriotic enthusiasm
374
–5; in public memory
378
–85,
440
,
489
; and Theodor Fontane
681
–2

Wars of Unification: Danish War of 1864
525
–30; Austrian War of 1866
535
–42; FrenchWar of 1870–71
550
–52

Warsaw, Battle of
44
,
47
,
49

Waterloo, Battle of (1815):
372
–3; in memory
380

Wednesday Club (
Mittwochsgesellschaft
)
251
–2,
272

Wehlau, Peace of
50
,
58

Wehler, Hans-Ulrich
xxii

Weimar Republic: place of Prussia in
621
–2; role of army in
622
–3; military–civil relations
628
–30; political attitude of the Prussian judiciary
631
–2,
634
; Prussian civil service
632
–3,
634

Weiss, Bernhard
645

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of
372
,
373

Wels, Otto
624

Wends
2
,
428

Wesel
244

Westminster, Convention of (1756)
198

Westphalen, Ferdinand von
507
,
508

Westphalia, Peace of
48
–9,
115
,
141
; Kingdom of, under French occupation
348
,
349
; in 1848
476
,
485

West Prussia (
see also
Royal Prussia)
231
–9,
374

Wette, Wilhelm de
400

Whitworth, Charles
79

Wilhelmine, Princess of Prussia,
105

William I, King, later Emperor:
76
,
84
,
437
,
471
,
475
,
503
–4,
511
; importance of the military for
513
–14,
515
–16; and German unification
514
; constitutional crisis
517
; relationship with Bismarck
520
–21,
588
; on North German Confederation
546
; and Spanish succession crisis
548
–9; proclaimed Emperor
552
; as Emperor and king after 1870
588
–589

William II, Emperor:
84
; opposes modern dance and painting styles
564
–5; sponsors monuments to William I
565
–7,
590
; efforts to ‘imperialize’ the Prussian monarchy
589
–94,
602
; in political caricature
593
–4; pardons the ‘Captain of Köpenick’
598
; as supreme warlord
604
; response to unrest in South-West Africa
604
–5; eclipsed by Hindenburg
611
; abdication and flight to Holland
612
–14; labour protection law
618
; impact of abdication on Prussian Protestantism
636
; hope for restoration in Third Reich
664

William III of England,
102

Wilson, Woodrow
611
–12,
674

Winterfeld, Samuel von
27

Wittenberg,
126
,
388
–9

Wittgenstein, Prince Wilhelm Ludwig Sayn-
396
,
401
,
402
,
403
,
404

Witzleben, Erwin von
668

Wolff, Christian
74
,
240
,
253
,
261

Wolff, Friedrich Wilhelm
454
,
457

Wöllner, Johann Christoph
268
–71,
272
,
418

Wrangel, Count Friedrich Heinrich Ernst von
481
,
526
,
528

Württemberg
218
,
295
,
393
,
496
,
536
,
546
–547

Wusterhausen
86

Yorck von Wartenburg, Hans David Ludwig Count
358
–61,
381
,
386
,
653
,
669
–70,
674

Yorck von Wartenburg, Peter Count
667
–8

Zedlitz, Karl Abraham Freiherr von
245
,
269

Ziel, Alwin
xxii

Zieten, Hans-Karl Graf von
372

Zimmermann, Georg
147

Zöllner, Johann Friedrich
249

Zollverein
see
Customs Union

Zorndorf, Battle of (1758)
203
,
204
,
208
,
225

Zweibrücken, Duke Charles of
217