@inbook{4c3df228f770471589f482f10c652eb3,
title = "The Modernity of the Unmodern? The German Emperor in the Constitution of the Kaiserreich",
abstract = "The chapter discusses the development of the emperor{\textquoteright}s constitutional position, from its roots in the formulation of the {\textquoteleft}presidency{\textquoteright} of a German confederation to the first German Kaiser in 1871. The central argument of this chapter is that it was not primarily {\textquoteleft}the weakness{\textquoteright} of the last emperor{\textquoteright}s position (and that of his chancellors after 1890) but the paradoxical constitutional status of the emperor as head of state that made possible the development of a strong Beamtenstaat and the emancipation of the Reichstag. Paradoxically the bombastic fa{\c c}ade of the new nationalist Wilhelmine emperorship was intertwined with the growing importance of the emperor{\textquoteright}s constitutional function as head of a rational, bureaucratic and modernizing state.",
keywords = "German Reich, Prussia, Staatsrecht, Constitutionalism, Head of state",
author = "Lantink, \{Frans Willem\}",
year = "2025",
month = may,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-73046-7\_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-73045-0",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "229--253",
editor = "Kein-Kircher, \{Heidi \} and Sterkenburgh, \{Frank \}",
booktitle = "Modernizing Europe's Imperial Monarchies",
address = "United Kingdom",
}