LEADER 04169oam 2200781 a 450 001 9910813189603321 005 20231218230416.0 010 $a0-674-26619-6 010 $a0-674-06269-8 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674062696 035 $a(CKB)2670000000136554 035 $a(EBL)3301229 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000692109 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11400595 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000692109 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10636371 035 $a(PQKB)10751459 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301229 035 $a(DE-B1597)178272 035 $a(OCoLC)1024056408 035 $a(OCoLC)1037982788 035 $a(OCoLC)1041976761 035 $a(OCoLC)1046613520 035 $a(OCoLC)1047002945 035 $a(OCoLC)1049630644 035 $a(OCoLC)1054881356 035 $a(OCoLC)979621384 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674062696 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301229 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10662187 035 $a(OCoLC)768761691 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000136554 100 $a20110113d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOur Fritz $eEmperor Frederick III and the political culture of imperial Germany /$fFrank Lorenz Mu?ller 210 1$aCambridge, Mass. :$cHarvard University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (340 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-674-04838-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Hohenzollern monarchs -- Shaping a prince's life -- Liberalism and empire -- A national treasure -- The politics of succession -- Illness and reign -- Contested memory. 330 $aOn June 15, 1888, a mere ninety-nine days after ascending the throne to become king of Prussia and German emperor, Frederick III succumbed to throat cancer. Europeans were spellbound by the cruel fate nobly borne by the voiceless Fritz, who for more than two decades had been celebrated as a military hero and loved as a kindly gentleman. A number of grief-stricken individuals reportedly offered to sacrifice their own healthy larynxes to save the ailing emperor. Frank Lorenz Müller, in the first comprehensive life of Frederick III ever written, reconstructs how the hugely popular persona of "Our Fritz" was created and used for various political purposes before and after the emperor's tragic death. Sandwiched between the reign of his ninety-year-old father and the calamitous rule of his own son, the future emperor William II, Frederick III served as a canvas onto which different political forces projected their hopes and fears for Germany's future. The book moves beyond the myth that Frederick's humane liberalism would have built a lasting Anglo-German partnership, perhaps even preventing World War I, and beyond the castigations and exaggerations of parties with a different agenda. Surrounded by an unforgettable cast of characters that includes the emperor's widely hated English wife, Vicky-daughter of Queen Victoria-and the scheming Otto von Bismarck, Frederick III offers in death as well as in life a revealing, poignant glimpse of Prussia, Germany, and the European world that his son would help to shatter. 606 $aEmperors$zGermany$vBiography 606 $aPrinces$zGermany$vBiography 606 $aPolitical culture$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aMemorialization$zGermany$xHistory 607 $aGermany$xKings and rulers$vBiography 607 $aPrussia (Germany)$xKings and rulers$vBiography 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1871-1918 607 $aGermany$xHistory$yFrederick III, 1888 615 0$aEmperors 615 0$aPrinces 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 615 0$aMemorialization$xHistory. 676 $a943.08/4092 676 $aB 700 $aMu?ller$b Frank Lorenz$f1970-$0994042 702 $aMu?ller$b Frank Lorenz$f1970- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813189603321 996 $aOur Fritz$94087115 997 $aUNINA