National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument The National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument ("Kaiser-Wilhelm-Nationaldenkmal") was a memorial structure in Berlin dedicated to Wilhelm I, first Emperor of a unified Germany. It stood in front of the Stadtschloss from 1897 through 1950, when both structures were demolished by the GDR government. The monument was an equestrian statue of the first German Emperor Wilhelm I, on the Spree Canal along the Eosander portal on the west side of the Berlin City Palace. The design of the memorial was directly influenced by Wilhelm I's grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the neo-baroque style of the memorial is the
Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (FDGB) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Their moderate leftist views often put them at cross-purposes with Soviet leaders, and in the late 1940s both of them left the Soviet zone. Subsequently, she supported Kaiser in his political career in West Germany and was active in the Christian Democratic Employees' Association, an arm of the CDU. Nebgen married Kaiser in 1953, after the death of his first wife; thereafter, she hyphenated her last name with his. In 1967 she published a biography of her husband, "Jakob Kaiser: Der Widerstandskämpfer" (Jakob Kaiser: Resistance Fighter). She survived him by two decades, dying