How much power did he really have?

>>3385631
A significant amount but he's power dwindled throughout his rule, partly because of he was basically a pr disaster for Germany, especially for its relations with places like Britain and Japan. Around the time of ww1 he did wield a decent hand in governance but towards the end of the war he was largely powerless.

>>3385631
He was called the Shadow Kaiser for a reason. Ludendorff and Hindenburg were the ones who started WW1.

unlimited power

>>3385706
I am the Reichstag

>>3385711
XD le starwars!

>>3385716
haha le updoot fellow Redditor XDDDDDDD

>>3385706
>>3385711
>>3385716
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>>3385631
A Central Power

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>>3385631
Too much, especially in foreign affairs. In interior affairs, the constitution was a little more democratic.

Over the course of the Great War, this: >>3385696 See here if you are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberste_Heeresleitung

>>3385912
Nice one

>>3385631

The Kaiser had complete and total authority over all military matters.

>>3385696
That's a later development, early on no one gave a shit about those two fat hacks

>>3386037
>>3386022
>>3385696

Wilhelm couldn't cope with the stress of warfare. He spent most of the war LARPing as a lumberjack. But he was still very important during the first year of the war. The Hindenburg and Ludendorff duo didn't achieve prominence until after Tannenberg. As time went on, they became more and more powerful. The Kaiser became very dependent on them, and so they could get almost anything they wanted by threatening to resign.