AHC/WI Get a Woman to Lead Imperial Germany

The goal of this thread is to wank history so that a woman such as Augusta Victoria is leading the German Empire with POD between 1890 and 1914, and how this would affect the War itself and beyond.
 
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Marc

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Her leadership being a la Victoria, almost all pomp and very little circumstance.
 
Dona as leader of Imperial Germany. She would be influenced easily by military and political leaders. I think Bismarck backed her marriage to Wilhelm so she may stay loyal and not fire him. Means Anti Socialist Laws and renewed Reinsurance Treaty perhaps. I think she’d be unpopular.
 
Imperial Germany used Salic succession, which explicitely excludes women, so you wouldn't get a reigning Kaiserin. You could get a Empress-Dowager acting as regent for her son or grandson, but that would be by its very nature a time limited thing.
Over time, especially as the SPD grows more powerful and society changes, you may eventually get a Reichskanzlerin.
 
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was born on 4th of July, 1906. So he was 8 in 1914 and 12 in 1918.
If both Emperor Wilhelm II and Crown Prince/Emperor Wilhelm die but both Empress Augusta Victoria and Crown Princess/Empress Cecilie survive, which of them, or someone else, would be the Regent for Emperor Wilhelm III/IV?

How would they affect the decision to enter war, or its conduct if they already or still have it?
 
Imperial Germany used Salic succession, which explicitely excludes women, so you wouldn't get a reigning Kaiserin. You could get a Empress-Dowager acting as regent for her son or grandson, but that would be by its very nature a time limited thing.
Over time, especially as the SPD grows more powerful and society changes, you may eventually get a Reichskanzlerin.

You can change succession laws. It is not like word of God which cna't be changed. In OTL many OTL European monarchies have eventually abandoned agnatic succession and transferred to absolute primogeniture succession. Altough it is quiet hard get rigning empres with her own rights before 1914. But not impossible.

Probably best way is that male lineage of reigning dynasty is extinct so daughter of last male lineage emperor could become empress.
 
If it can be any period of time, a modern Empress regnant in a surviving German Empire is easy, as is a female Chancellor in a scenario where the monarchy eventually becomes symbolic.
 
I think the reference to Dona as an example in the OP led me to believe we were talking about a regency situation. She would not have been in the line of succession as a spouse. Could she have been a Cixi type if her husband and then her son pass away? She was not as far as I know a strong personality. But her inertia could have had an impact of sorts—some of the more dynamic programs like the navy buildup and aggressive foreign policy could have been butterflied away.
 
Imperial Germany eventually liberalizes into a constitutional monarchy, female PM in 2012 or something
 
I could be wrong, but wouldn't Prince Heinrich (Kaiser Bill's brother) be regent in the event of Wilhelm leaving an underage heir? I ask, because in the Holy Roman Empire, the regent of a state was mostly the next adult male in line.
 
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