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William I, (born March 22, 1797, Berlin—died March 9, 1888, Berlin), German emperor from 1871, as well as king of Prussia from 1861, a sovereign whose conscientiousness and self-restraint fitted him for collaboration with stronger statesmen in raising his monarchy and the house of Hohenzollern to predominance in Germany.

In the wake of the revolutions of 1848 and during the German Empire (1848–49), King Frederick Wilhelm IV of Prussia was offered the title "Emperor of the Germans" ( Kaiser der Deutschen) by the Frankfurt Parliament in 1849, but declined it as "not the Parliament's to give".

1. Death and Legacy King Wilhelm I died on March 9th, 1888 in Berlin. He was buried at the Park Charlottenburg Mausoleum. He was a very popular emperor during his time, and many statues and memorials have since been built to honor him.

Wilhelm of Prussia proclaimed the first German emperor – archive, 1871. On 18 January 1871, Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hohenzollern was crowned as the first emperor of a united Germany in...

On 18 July 1886, at 8.30 p.m., German emperor Wilhelm I arrived at the railway station at Augsburg, Bavaria. The Berlin court had ruled out a formal reception by the city because Wilhelm wanted to travel incognito, but local authorities had defied these orders and instead all local notables turned out to greet him.

Wilhelm I of Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm I ( Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Hohenzollern; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) of the Hohenzollern family was a king of Prussia from January 2, 1861 – 9 March 1888. He was the first German Emperor (18 January 1871 – 9 March 1888).

The first kaiser/emperor of the German Empire was the House of Hohenzollern's Wilhelm I. He became the King of Prussia in 1861. In 1871, after the Franco/Prussian War, he and Minister-President Otto von Bismarck established the German Empire that Wilhelm's grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II shattered.

William I or Wilhelm I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and German Emperor from 18 January 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany.