State · 1884 – 1920
German colonial empire
A state of 1884 – 1920 — 36 years in Europe. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 36 years
- 1884 – 1920
- Rulers
- 3
- the Emperor
- Within it
- 2
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilhelm I | 1871 – 1888 | 17 years | ending not on record | |
| Frederick III, German Emperor | 1888 – 1888 | under a year | ending not on record | child |
| Wilhelm II | 1888 – 1918 | 30 years | ending not on record | child |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1871 – 1918. Only 47 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, undatedReichskolonialflagge · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedWappen Deutsches Reich - Reichsadler 1889 · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19992 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Herero and Nama genocide · atrocity · 1904 – 1908
- Herero uprising · war · 1904 – 1908
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood36 years
stood longer than 29% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1874 – 1930, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1902, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q329618 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.