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Author Müller, Frank Lorenz, 1970-

Title Our Fritz : Emperor Frederick III and the political culture of imperial Germany / Frank Lorenz Müller
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (340 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents The Hohenzollern monarchs -- Shaping a prince's life -- Liberalism and empire -- A national treasure -- The politics of succession -- Illness and reign -- Contested memory
Summary In the first comprehensive life of Frederick III, Müller reconstructs how the beloved persona of "Our Fritz" was created and used for various political purposes before and after the emperor's tragic death from throat cancer. Frederick III served as a canvas onto which different political forces projected their hopes and fears for Germany's future
On June 15, 1888, a mere ninety-nine days after ascending the throne to become king of Prussia and German emperor, Frederick III succumbed to throat cancer. Europeans were spellbound by the cruel fate nobly borne by the voiceless Fritz, who for more than two decades had been celebrated as a military hero and loved as a kindly gentleman. A number of grief-stricken individuals reportedly offered to sacrifice their own healthy larynxes to save the ailing emperor. Frank Lorenz Müller, in the first comprehensive life of Frederick III ever written, reconstructs how the hugely popular persona of "Our Fritz" was created and used for various political purposes before and after the emperor's tragic death. Sandwiched between the reign of his ninety-year-old father and the calamitous rule of his own son, the future emperor William II, Frederick III served as a canvas onto which different political forces projected their hopes and fears for Germany's future. The book moves beyond the myth that Frederick's humane liberalism would have built a lasting Anglo-German partnership, perhaps even preventing World War I, and beyond the castigations and exaggerations of parties with a different agenda. Surrounded by an unforgettable cast of characters that includes the emperor's widely hated English wife, Vicky--daughter of Queen Victoria--and the scheming Otto von Bismarck, Frederick III offers in death as well as in life a revealing, poignant glimpse of Prussia, Germany, and the European world that his son would help to shatter
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888.
Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888 -- Public opinion
SUBJECT Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888 fast
Subject Emperors -- Germany -- Biography
Princes -- Germany -- Biography
Political culture -- Germany -- History
Memorialization -- Germany -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Emperors
Kings and rulers
Memorialization
Political culture
Politics and government
Princes
Public opinion
Politisk kultur -- historia -- Tyskland -- 1800-talet.
SUBJECT Germany -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Prussia (Germany) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054634
Germany -- History -- Frederick III, 1888. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054582
Subject Germany
Germany -- Prussia
Tyskland -- kungar och härskare -- 1800-talet -- biografi.
Tyskland -- politik och förvaltning -- historia -- 1800-talet.
Tyskland -- historia -- 1800-talet.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011000049
ISBN 9780674062696
0674062698
0674266196
9780674266193