Emperor of Kaiser William II, son of Empress Victoria (daughter of Queen Victoria of England) and Prince Frederick William of Prussia (the future Frederick III) I. The Kaiser was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. The Kaiser lived here 1914-1917.Crowned in 1888, he dismissed the Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, in 1890 and launched Germany on a bellicose "New Course" in foreign affairs that culminated in his support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led in a matter of days to the First World War.