• The Kaiserbrief (English: Imperial Letter), is the letter to the German Federal princes signed by North German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck on 27 November...
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    the German General Staff. In that capacity, he handed over Ludwig's Kaiserbrief on 3 December 1870, in which Ludwig endorsed the creation of the German...
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    Ludwig on his accession as Ludwig II. Count Maximilian brought Ludwig's "Kaiserbrief" to Otto von Bismarck. Holnstein was born on 19 October 1835 in Munich...
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    shocking defeat of the "Bismarck Empire" during the First World War. Kaiserbrief Titles and Emblems of the German Emperor after 1873 Marco Dräger: (K)Ein...
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    because Marie disapproved of Wagner. In November 1870, Ludwig signed the Kaiserbrief, a letter drafted by Bismarck to the other sovereigns of the German states...
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    of the king's equerry, Maximilian Count von Holnstein, to write the Kaiserbrief, a letter endorsing the creation of the German Empire with King Wilhelm...
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    physical defect that he could not bear. In the film Ludwig signs the famous Kaiserbrief in the Residenz, while it happened in Hohenschwangau, which is neither...
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    von Holnstein, a close friend of King Ludwig II who brought Ludwig's "Kaiserbrief" to Otto von Bismarck.  Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert, 1810 Grand Prior...
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    Ludwig and Otto (both later kings of Bavaria); he brought Ludwig's "Kaiserbrief" to Otto von Bismarck. Count von Holnstein's died in 1857 and his estates...
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