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Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, in full Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg, (born November 29, 1856, Hohenfinow, Prussia [now in Germany]—died January 1, 1921, Hohenfinow, Germany), German imperial chancellor before and during World War I who possessed talents for administration but not for governing.

Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg(* 29. November1856in Hohenfinow, Provinz Brandenburg; † 2. Januar1921ebenda) war ein deutscher Politiker in der Zeit des Kaiserreichs. Seine Karriere begann als Verwaltungsbeamter und gipfelte in der Amtszeit als Reichskanzlervon 1909 bis 1917.

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg The German statesman and chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856-1921) led Germany during the first 3 years of World War I . After a rather routine rise in German political life, he became Prussian minister of the interior in 1905 and the imperial secretary of state for the interior in 1907.

Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von. Imperial German Chancellor and Prussian Minister-President. Born 29 November 1856 in Hohenfinow, German Reich. Died 01 January 1921 in Hohenfinow, German Reich. Bethmann was a career civil servant who became Imperial Germany’s fifth Reich Chancellor and took Germany into the First World War. Despite heading the imperial German political administration, his power was circumscribed by the role of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the army leadership.

Bethman Hollweg tried to avoid the failure of his predecessor, von Bülow, to build a parliamentary majority for his government. As Chancellor, therefore, he tried to seek the consent of parliament as little as possible, with the result that urgently needed reforms, most importantly of the country's finances, could not take place. This political stalemate, and Germany's increasing inability to find the necessary finances to keep up with the arms race, contributed directly to the sense of ...

BETHMANN HOLLWEG, THEOBALD VON (1856–1921), German statesman, served as imperial chancellor, 1909–1917. Often called the "Hamlet" of German politics, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg combined a legalistic and bureaucratic mind with inner doubt and misgiving. He was appointed Prussian minister of the interior in 1905 and German state secretary of the interior two years later.

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg is most famous as the Chancellor of Germany at the start of World War One. Bethmann Hollweg was also the politician who sanctioned the use of unrestricted submarine warfare that led to the entry of America into World War One. Bethmann Hollweg was born in 1856 in Hohenfinow, Brandenberg.

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856-1921) served as Chancellor of Germany from 1909-17, a period which included much of World War One, and during which he fought to maintain social and political coherency as the increasingly vocal liberal elite clashed with reactionary forces typified by the German military machine and monarchist state.