Last week we looked at the origins of House Hohenzollern and the Thirty Years’ War that brought Brandenburg-Prussia close to ...

The attempted introduction of a new rationalist Lutheran hymnal into Brandenburg-Prussia in 1781 was largely a failure due to the successful popular opposition towards it. This opposition was ...

Did Frederick William of Brandenburg found Prussia? Who really introduced the potato? A new biography of "the Great Elector" takes a deeper look at the life of the famous member of German royalty and ...

‘As gravity bends light, so power bends time,’ Christopher Clark writes. The ‘temporal turn’, which has recently become fashionable among historians, looks at the interplay between an individual’s ...

Monarchy is a hit-and-miss affair. Kings and queens can be good, bad, mad or indifferent. Most wouldn’t make the grade in a competitive democratic system or make their mark in the modern world.

Drawings by young Prince Wilhelm between ages of six and 14 reveal early fascination with the sea which would later prompt naval arms race with Britain Kaiser Wilhelm, his old tutor. The drawings were ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans are starting to rethink their negative views about Prussia, the state which ruled much of northern Germany for centuries and which has been viewed for decades through the ...

Tim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (New York: Random House, 2016), 688 pp., $35.00. NAPOLEON SWIFTLY conquered Prussia in October 1806, inflicting crushing defeats at Jena and ...

Last week we looked at the origins of House Hohenzollern and the Thirty Years’ War that brought Brandenburg-Prussia close to the brink of collapse. In 1640 at 20 years of age, a new Elector ascended ...