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HistoryExhausted by age, the pressures of the new German international activity, and the vagaries of the emperor, Uncle Chlodwig, as the empress called him, retired in late 1900 and died shortly thereafter. He was suc ceeded as chancellor by a man much more interesting and much more controversial. Prince Bernhard von Biilow. Billow, a north German who was chancellor for nine yeSsTr900T9I)9T," was the son of one of Bis- marckV secretaries of state for foreign affairs. He had entered the dip lomatic service as a young man and had served in almost all of the principal capitals of Europe, eventually becoming ambassador to Italy and later succeeding Marschall in 1897 as secretary of state for foreign affairs. prev next |