Imperial Germany’s Version of Welthauptstadt Germania

In original timeline, Hitler had a idea of a redesign of Berlin, called Welthauptstadt Germania.

What would be an German Empire’s Version of Germania in a Central Power Victory?
 
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The Kaiserreich was smart enough to not blow all their money on such a project.

They could build a really, really grandiose palace complex though.
 
Berlin was already a rapidly building and modern city pre-war,considered by most to be on the cutting edge of development. There's no need for such a project as there's nothing established enough to redesign
 
Inhuman monstrosities like Hitler's plans for Berlin or the Palace of the Soviets were a poor attempt to mimic the royal palaces and grandiose cathedrals that came before them. Vienna still has Habsburg palaces and Churches that put younger government buildings to shame. The Hohenzollerns had already left their mark in Berlin's architecture in 1914.

Unfortunately, any Prussian palaces in Berlin not destroyed during the war were demolished by the East Germans.
 
In original timeline, Hitler had a idea of a redesign of Berlin, called Welthauptstadt Germania.

What would be an German Empire’s Version of Germania in a Central Power Victory?

I doubt the Imperial Germans would be so egotistical and vain as to totally redesign Berlin, like Hitler was planning to do.

But, I do believe that they would build something to commemorate the German soldiers who died in the First World War. Maybe a large statue of a German soldier in the centre of Berlin or maybe a memorial to the German soldiers who died in the war?
 
^What was said above. Berlin was expanding extremely fast and the Reich didn't had plans to waste money in such a grandiose project... However something smaller can be done.

Had France to get a far left or far right extremely germanophone government, the germans could pick a city on the border with France, maybe Nanzig (otl nancy), and reformulate the city to be as german possible in a demonstration of power. Nancy is not even in the german portion of the AL, and so it would be seem as a clear agression.
 
An amusing twist on this concept would be if a Central Powers victory nonetheless results in a gradual democratization, culminating in a Chancellor and government accountable to the Reichstag not the Kaiser. In such a case you might have a "Weimar coalition" of the SPD, Zentrum, and left-liberals take power and be in a position to pursue rather ambitious social projects without OTL's postwar economic problems. Such a government could very well pursue policies of slum clearance, grandiose public housing, and "new cities" in the suburbs decades ahead of say the postwar Labour government in the UK.
 
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I doubt the Imperial Germans would be so egotistical and vain as to totally redesign Berlin, like Hitler was planning to do.

But, I do believe that they would build something to commemorate the German soldiers who died in the First World War. Maybe a large statue of a German soldier in the centre of Berlin or maybe a memorial to the German soldiers who died in the war?
I agree, Imperial German being as conservative as it is, I think they'd leave Berlin mostly alone. Maybe they'd go for a memorial monument (as the OTL victorious powers did; any WW1 victory is bittersweet), but that's about it. The Siegessäule was already the ultimate representation of German military victory over other imperial powers, so I don't think they'd make another imperial war monument quite as grand.
 
Didnt the 1800s redesign of Paris pay for itself? They sold shares of the company doing the reconstruction and store fronts on the main roads years before they were finished. There's plenty of ways to secure money for such an undertaking.
 
Didnt the 1800s redesign of Paris pay for itself? They sold shares of the company doing the reconstruction and store fronts on the main roads years before they were finished. There's plenty of ways to secure money for such an undertaking.

The Berlin version was called Hobrecht-Plan in 1862
it was major redesign of City to match it's needs
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Red: streets build
Black: planned, but not realized streets

It can be that in TL were the Imperial Germany is victorious, some of those Black Streets are build to open place for the WW1 Victory Column.
For rest i not think that Wilhelm II or III would goes megalomaniac like that Little annoying Austrian...
but Berlin would change slowly under New Generations of architects like Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe,

1950s Berlin skyline would dominated by those buildings
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