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Hello Buddy... yes, it is perhaps a most unfortunate fact that some people do like to make fun of my name. But to be named after two of the greatest rivers in Germany is not really such a bad thing after all, is it?.

Well now... I wonder if you know that the Rhine and the Ruhr are two of the country's largest rivers. They both twist majestically through the vast industrial regions of the land, but are along the way to the sea, contaminated with many different unsavoury chemicals.

People have to drink the water from the rivers and fish (along with penguin people) have to swim in it, yuck!.

I do not like it so much myself and pollution of water is not really so good anywhere. But, unfortunately there are many industrial complexes, placed so near to the water, as to now and again have contamination accidents (Do please click one of the links on the page for more details).

So... Ully is here to not only give you notes on the interesting history of the Germany region and it's rulers, but also to talk about the Green issues of the planet.

My history notes

Here is how the monarchy of Germany started... Around 1000 BC, Norse tribes from the Scandinavia region, moved southward and settled at the rivers Rhine, Elbe and Danube, seeking to find more living space and food. By 2000 BC they had enlarged enough in power to remove the various Celtic tribes from the area.

Later in 9 AD The Roman army attempted to subdue these tribes in the Germanic region but failed. By 5 AD these Vandal'/ Germanic' tribes had grown in strength and conquered the western Europe region. Plundered Rome itself and divided Europe into various tribal kingdoms.

In 496 King of the Germanic Franks' tribe, Clovis, exerts dominance of the Germanic' territories by defeating the Almanni tribe.

Between 772 to 804, Charlemagne, King of the Franks' tribe, begins the long road to the present day map of Europe by defeating the Saxon' tribes in a series of Wars.

He imposed Christianity on the newly formed kingdom and proclaimed himself the Holy Roman Emperor'. (There was nothing particularly Holy or Roman about the Charlemagne Empire, but the very title, did give the impression of having the same military power and influence as Imperial Rome had once attained).

On 14th Feb 843. The treaty of Verdun ended the family Frankish War.

(During which brother fought brother and sons fought father for Power of The Holy Roman Empire). Under the treaty terms. The Empire was divided between the sons of Emperor Louis the Pious.

The Western Empire territories were given to son Charles the Bald, (this part of the empire is now known as France).

Son Louis the German, received the part of the Empire situated East of the Rhine river (this part of the Empire is now known as Germany).

Son Lothair, received a large, but thin stretch of land running from present day Denmark to present day Italy. This area of dissected Empire, ran between both the lands of the other two sons of Louis the Pious.

The King Henry the Fowler' founded a Saxon' tribe dynasty in 919 AD. But in 962 AD, Otto The Great brought back the title of Holy Roman Emperor and enlarged German lands. By 1024-1254 the Holy Roman Emperors of Hoenstufen and Salian dynasties were in conflict with various Popes and the Empire, through many Civil wars, eventually fragmented, with various local Princes claiming independence.

12th 13th 14th Centuries. Saw German land enlargement, to lands between the Oder and Elbe rivers and the formation of the Hanseatic league of Allied Germanic cities (Forming a strong trading and Naval power).

By 1438 the Title of Holy Roman Emperor was to become assimilated into the natural line of the Hapsburg family.

1517 Saw the Protestant Reformation of Martin Luthur, with the result of a Civil War. In the Augsburg Peace' that followed, Emperor Charles V relented, so that free religious persuasion could be pursued by all the various Princes in their own land areas.

The Thirty Years War of 1618-1648, saw The Holy Roman Empire decimated and reduced to a name only, by more religious and political strife, between Emperor and Princes. After it, the Local states were then in dominance. Prussia took Silesia from Austria in 1740. Keeping this area, while Austria had two Wars. One of Succession, 1740-1748, then the Seven Years War, of 1756-1763. In 1772-1795 both Prussia and Austria joined Russia and Partitioned the State of Poland.

Between 1792-1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, as part of the French Revolutionary Wars abolished the Holy Roman Empire (1806). But with Napoleons defeat at Waterloo, the Congress of Vienna award the Rhineland, Westphalia and part of Saxony to Prussia, for their military involvement in his defeat. A Confederation of 39 separate, but United' German States was formed. During the period 1848-1849 many of these States saw Liberal Revolutions for German total unity, which were suppressed.

In 1862 Otto Von Bismarck became the Prime Minister of Prussia and after the Seven Weeks War of 1866, Prussia defeated Austria and dissolved this unification of United States of Germany, establishing a similar North Germany Confederation,of United States, under Prussian control.

1870-1871 saw the Southern German States agreeing to total German Unification after the Franco-Prussian War. The German Empire then officially came into being.

The King of Prussia, Wilhelm I, became Emperor of the German Empire and Otto Von Bismarck became chancellor of Germany. However, in 1890, the new King, Wilhelm II, dismissed Otto Von Bismarck. The King seeking for Germany, a new role as a major power and political entity on the World stage. In 1914, this new political role, led to Germany encouraging Austria to attack Serbia and this action in turn, began the horrid events of World War One.

At the end of this War (1918) the Monarchy was dissolved and the following various adverse Political and Economic events, led to the formation of a new kind of leadership, with Adolf Hitler leader of the Nazi Party becoming the new Chancellor of Germany in 1933.

Adolf Hitler took the title of Leader (Fuhrer) in 1934 and with it total control of Germany. By 1939 Adolf Hitler's actions as new `leader`(attempting to enlarge German land and his own power through political, persecutions and military means). Led the Planet into the darkness of World War Two.

He ensured that mans' capacity for disregard of fellow man' and persecution, would reach a whole new, dark level in this modern world'.

- First steps to Germany from the Holy Roman Empire -

Emperor - Date

843 Louis the German

876 Louis II & Charles the fat & Carloman

887 Arnulf

899 Louis IV Das Kind (Child)

911 Conrad

918 Henry I The Fowler

936 Otto the great

973 Otto II

983 Teophano

991 Adelheid

995 Otto III

1002 Henry II

1024 Conrad II

1039 Henry III

1056 Henry IV

1106 Henry V

1125 Lothair II (The Saxon)

1138 Conrad III

1152 Fredrick I Barbarossa

1190 Henry VI

1197 Philip of Swabia

1208 Otto IV

1212 Fredrick II Hohenstauffen

1250 Conrad IV

1254 William of Holland

1256 Richard of Cornwall / Alfonso X of Castile

1273 Rudolf of Habsburg

1291 Adolf of Nassau

1298 Albert I

1308 Henry VII

1314 Louis of Bavaria

1347 Charles IV

1378 Wenceslas

1400 Rupert

1412 Sigismund

1437 Albert II

1439 Fredrick III

1493 Maximilian I

1519 Charles V

German states split now the ' Holy Roman Empire '

is a name only with little power.

1556 Ferdinand

1564 Maximilian II

1576 Rudlof II

1612 Matthias

1619 Ferdinand II

1637 Ferdinand III

1658 Leopold I

1705 Joseph I

1711 Charles VI

1742 Charles VII

1745 Francis

1765 Joseph II

1790 Leopold II

1792-1806 Francis II

Napoleon Bonaparte dissolves

the Holy Roman Empire.

1871 Wilhelm I

1888 Fredrick III

1890-1918 Wilhelm II

1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Leader' of Germany

1939 World War Two (Click here)

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