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In 1916 he became Secretary of the Interior and Vice Chancellor under Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a time, he was personal secretary to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throughout the War he was one of the Kaiser's most devoted followers, defending indiscriminate submarine warfare against the attacks of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg, has such military honor come to any German holding a civilian office.
From Time Magazine Archive
An expected address by the kaiser's Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, had been deferred until February 27, 1917, when a tardy official recognition was made of the American action.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
Yet when Bethmann Hollweg produced his highly expansionist war-aims memorandum in September 1914, the Kaiser wanted to go even further.
From Economist ● Oct. 23, 2014
The fine-tuning of the crisis was left to the civilian chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, whose primary aim was to subvert diplomatic intervention in order to begin the war under the most favourable conditions possible.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2014
Bethmann Hollweg was dropped on July 14, and five days later a majority of the Reichstag voted for a peace virtually on the basis of the status quo ante.
From Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements by Lord, Frank B.
The second was the possibility that Tirpitz might be made Chancellor of the Empire in place of Bethmann Hollweg.
From Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount
Moreover, Herr von Bethmann Hollweg, on March 18, 1918, acknowledged the accuracy of M. Pichon's quotation and contented himself to declare that "his instructions to Von Schoen were justified."
From Fighting France by Williams, John Lauris Blake
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