Images - Germany in International Affairs

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1.	Bernhard von Bülow (1894) Bernhard von Bülow (1849-1929) was a career diplomat from an old aristocratic family. This photograph was taken in 1894, when Bülow was serving as German ambassador in Rome. In 1897, he returned....
2.	"Kiepert's Ready-Reference Map of the German Colonies" at a Scale of 1:16,000,000 (c. 1895) Founded in 1871, the German Empire was a latecomer in the European race to claim overseas territories as colonies. Until 1884, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) had resisted all public....
3.	German Naval Officers Pose Behind a Chinese Cannon in Kiaochow (November 1897) On November 4, 1897, two German missionaries were murdered in the southern part of the Chinese province of Shantung. Senior German government officials had already considered the area as a potentially....
4.	Alfred von Schlieffen (c. 1900) Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913) had a long and distinguished military career, having fought as an officer in both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. In 1891,....
5.	Alfred von Tirpitz (c. 1900) Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) was the chief architect of the massive build-up of German....
6.	Gold Prospectors in Urusis, German Southwest Africa (c. 1900) German Southwest Africa (1884-1915) – today Namibia – was the most significant of Germany’s scattering of colonial possessions. By 1914, it boasted some 2,100 kilometers of rail track and an estimated....
7.	Quinine Production (c. 1900) Extracted from the chincona tree, quinine was widely used during the second half of the nineteenth century to combat malaria. It became popular as European colonization of equatorial regions increased.....
8.	Europeans with Chinese Servants in Tsingtau (Kiaochow) (c. 1900) Tsingtau was the port town of the German leasehold or “protectorate” of Kiaochow in the Chinese province of Shantung. The 99-year....
9.	German Navy League Postcard (1902) The German government helped fund the German Navy League [Deutscher Flottenverein, DFV], a patriotic society founded in 1898. The league managed to attract over one million members before....
10.	The Training of Young Diplomats (1903-1904) Here the satirical magazine Simplicissimus pokes fun at diplomats’ training. The text below the image reads: “It is probably not generally known that there is an institute in Berlin that devotes....
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