Alfred von Waldersee citations

Alfred von Waldersee est un feld-maréchal allemand né à Potsdam dans une famille de militaires. Il a été le chef du Grand État-Major général allemand de 1888 à 1891.

Il portait le titre de comte et il était marié à Mary Esther Lee, troisième fille de David Lee un marchand de New York, elle-même mariée une première fois au prince Frédéric de Schleswig-Holstein, et princesse de Nöer. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. avril 1832 – 5. mars 1904
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“Too many people are under the influence of the Jews.”

Waldersee in his diary c. 1888, quoted in John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and his court : Wilhelm II and the government of Germany

“Germany is the foundation for the mainstay for the whole of Europe, but if we become weak, the entire old world will fall apart.”

Waldersee in his diary c. 1886, quoted in John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and his court : Wilhelm II and the government of Germany

“We have far too many enemies, the French, the Slavs, above all the Catholics, and then the entire little rabble of the dispossessed, with their supporters”

Waldersee in his diary c. 1885, quoted in John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and his court : Wilhelm II and the government of Germany

“Bismarck is the king's last mistress because only such a creature could have such power over an old man.”

Waldersee c. 1887 http://www.tracesofevil.com/1999/10/revision-notes-about-bismarck.html

“I pray to God that I may not have to live through what I see coming.”

The last entry in Waldersee's diary, dated 5 March 1904, the day of his death.

“Should I rise to higher rank, this happiness can never compare to that which I enjoy in possessing you. Everything else is vastly secondary to this one great happiness. You are the greatest gift which God has bestowed on me.”

From Waldersee's letter to his wife Mary Lee, after being promoted to major-general, c. August 1876, quoted in Wade James Trosclair, Alfred von Waldersee, monarchist: his private life, public image, and the limits of his ambition, 1882-1891

“What he is most lacking in are fixed aims and the faculty of persisting in the line he has taken up.”

Waldersee on his diary, 16 March 1892, describing Kaiser Wilhelm II

“Never before has a ruler been so beloved by his own people, so highly esteemed by the whole world.”

Waldersee in his diary, 16 March 1888, on the recently deceased Kaiser Wilhelm I

“The Kaiser can be very friendly in his manner but he is utterly lacking in genuine goodwill. For this reason he will win no lasting affection.”

Waldersee in his diary, 6 February 1891, after being dismissed from the position of Chief of the General Staff

“Prince Wilhelm seems to have a good deal of his grandfather about him. If his parents have aimed at training him to be a constitutional monarch ready to bow to the rule of a parliamentary majority they have failed.”

Waldersee in his diary, 6 December 1883, quoted in Walter R. Pierce, Herr und Heer: The German Social Democrats and the Officer Corps, A Reappraisal

“In the cavalry sons of industrialists who have got rich quickly are pushing their way in and are ruining its simple customs.”

Waldersee in his diary, quoted in Walter R. Pierce, Herr und Heer: The German Social Democrats and the Officer Corps, A Reappraisal

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