Kaiser Wilhelm II

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"William II, temperamentally dictatorial, politically inexperienced, militarily aggressive, religiously insincere, posed as the apostle of European peace, yet actually insisted on "the mailed fist" and "the shining armor." Irresponsible, indiscreet, inordinately ambitious, his first act was to dismiss that sagacious statesman, the true founder of his empire, to whose sagacity Bahá'u'lláh had paid tribute, and to the unwisdom of whose imperial and ungrateful master 'Abdu'l-Bahá had testified. War indeed became a religion of his country, and by enlarging the scope of his multifarious activities, he proceeded to prepare the way for that final catastrophe that was to dethrone him and his dynasty." (Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 57)
Last German Emperor and King of Prussia, grandson of Queen Victoria; He dismissed Chancellor Bismarck in 1890, launching a "New Course" culminating in alliance with Austria-Hungary and the crisis that led to World War I; Abdicated in 1918; [Wikipedia]