Bethmann-Hollweg

[beyt-mahn-hawl-veyk]

noun

1. Theobald von 1856–1921, German statesman: chancellor 1909–17.

Bethmann Hollweg

/ ˈbeːtman ˈhɔlveːk /

noun

1. Theobald von (ˈteːobalt fɔn). 1856–1921, chancellor of Germany (1909–17)

Example Sentences

The documents indicate that Reich Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg as well as his military seized this opportunity to provoke a Continental war.

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Once hostilities began, Bethmann-Hollweg stood ready with a shopping list of war aims that would consolidate German supremacy over Western and Eastern Europe alike.

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Even after government belatedly recognized the danger they found that “control has been lost and the stone has begun to roll,” as German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg haplessly put it, and roll unstoppably. 

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Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor von, reply of, to offer of mediation, 384, 385.

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In the case of the Eberts, Scheidemanns and Davids, the balance of power was, not so very long ago, calculated exactly by the number of fingers which were extended to them at their meeting in the Reichstag with Bethmann-Hollweg, or with Ludendorff himself.

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