ww1 german govt

[FIGGIS]

what was the name of the german government during the first world war?

[Octavius]

By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the alliance of 400 separate German states that had existed within the Holy Roman Empire (962-1806) had been reduced to thirty-eight. At the Congress of Vienna these were formed into a loose grouping, the German Confederation, under Austrian leadership.

The Confederation was dissolved as a result of the Austro-Prussian War (1866), and in 1867 all northern Germany formed a new North German Confederation under Prussian leadership. This was in turn dissolved in 1871, and the new German Second empire proclaimed (the Second Reich).

After Germany's defeat in World War I, the Weimar Republic was instituted, to be replaced in 1933 by the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler.

[charis100]

During the First World War the head of the German state was Kaiser Wilhelm - I'm not sure if the government had an actual name. The Weimar Republic government was instituted after the end of the war