Word: baden
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...militarism. If Germany won the War, the workers would share in the foreseen prosperity; if Germany lost, the workers would be rid of the Kaiser. Several times he sat in council with the All Highest; and when the War ended and the Kaiser fled, Ebert succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor. In such a position, he became the logical choice as President of the Republic...
...firm, tactful, moderate. Even his political enemies realized that, if they had not a great man as head of the State, at least they had an able one. In 1918, when a surging multitude vociferously acclaimed him President of the Republic (he had then just succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor after the Imperial régime had fallen), he neither refused nor accepted, but passed the incident off with a statement that he must first consult the other leaders of the Social Democratic Party. It was a characteristic attitude and an attitude that he unswervingly followed throughout...
President Ebert telegraphed his condolences to the Mining Superintendent of Dortmund, informed him that 50,000 marks ($12,500) from the President's emergency fund had been placed at his disposal for relief of widows and orphans of the victims. Chancellor Luther cut short a political visit to Baden to dash to Dortmund. Telegrams poured in from many notables...
...Kaiserin Hermine, taking the baths at Baden-Baden, succeeded...
Princess Hermionie, who, if "Bill of Doom" had remained Kaiser of Germany, might have been Kaiserin, has rheumatism and is obliged to hobble about on crutches. In this state she hobbled off to Baden-Baden to take the cure, her husband's physician in attendance. It was reported that her stepchildren ignored her presence in Germany...