Word: hohenzollern
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...Hohenzollern dynasty never desired world hegemony. Its scions did not even aspire to be masters of Europe in the approved Napoleonic fashion imitated by Poincare. Two Princes of the house of Hohenzollern, Frederick the Iron and the Great Elector, refused the throne of Poland, stating: "We are German Princes. It is difficult enough to rule the Germans!" (Here the ex-Kaiser sadly smiled.) 'We have no desire to rule the earth...
...apology and were said to have expected challenges to duels. General von Ludendorff has ever preserved a Ku Klux Klan attitude toward the House of Wittelsbach (that of Prince Rupprecht) because it is Catholic. "Ludy" is a fire-eating Protestant and pins his faith to the House of Hohenzollern. Nevertheless, he has had a remarkable following in Bavaria which he appears now to have lost. This seems likely to affect his chances of being re-elected to the Reichstag...
...gentleman who is one day to become to all German royalists Kaiser Wilhelm IV-Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Josef Christian Olaf von Hohenzollern, eldest son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm-had a chance to prove that he is made of the same metal as his ancestor, Frederick the Great. At Potsdam, capital of German Monarchism, the Stahlhelm, Monarchist organization, came into collision with the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Republican organization. Immediately there was a free fight in which the Monarchists were defeated and forced to flee. But in the middle of the scrap a tall, lanky young man with large...
...Catholicism. Relations were established between Paris and the Holy See. The congregations (religious bodies) excluded by laws passed at the beginning of the present century, began to return. Catholic Alsace and Lorraine were permitted to retain their own laws and customs which had been granted to them under the Hohenzollern regime...
...Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, uncle of George V, and of Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia. She is, therefore, first cousin to King George, by birth a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by Royal Proclamation a Windsor,* by marriage a Hohenzollern, having married into the Catholic branch of that family when she became the bride of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Rumania...