Autocracy on Byzantine: monarchic rhetoric of Pan-Germans
In article it is about assessment of institute of the monarchy and the emperor Wilhelm II as her main thing, a symbolical embodiment the authoritative pangermantsky publicist Ernst zu Reventlow. The task of the author of article consists in showing perception and the attitude of Pan-Germans to the monarchy several years prior to her falling in Germany during the November revolution of 1918. Against the background of events of the first quarter of the 20th century the reasons of change of the attitude of Pan-Germans to the emperor's person are analyzed, the system crisis of the monarchy and options of his overcoming described in works of theorists of Pan-Germanism is considered. The intentions of pan-Germans connected with preparation of public opinion and a certain perception of the monarchy and the person Kaiser Wilhelm II are considered by the author.