For a quarter of a century following Henry V's death in 1125 the German monarchy was largely a nominal title with no real power.

The archbishop felt that the German monarchy was much too powerful and needed to be weakened, starting with the elimination of hereditary succession.

At the end of the war in 1918, the German monarchy was overthrown and Germany was established as a republic.

Two years later, when he was only twelve, the German monarchy was abolished.

It was also applied in most of the German monarchies and in the Hungarian.

During his reign, he proved that the German monarchy had become a viable institution.

Under the Weimar Republic, the system of state churches disappeared with the German monarchies.

He advocated furthermore the replacement of the German monarchy in Greece by a native regime.

Hindenburg himself was said to be a monarchist who favored a restoration of the German monarchy.

After the fall of the German monarchy in 1918, the couple divorced on 16 March 1920.