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Picturing the Imperator: Passenger Shipping as Art and National Symbol in the German Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2011

Mark A. Russell
Mark A. Russell
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The morning of May 23, 1912, witnessed the christening of a new German icon. For many Germans, it was a wonder of the modern age, a powerful symbol of the nation's achievements in industry, engineering, and technology. For others, it was the embodiment of all the evils wrought by political, social, and cultural transformation. Some said it expressed the character of the German people, in a manner similar to Cologne Cathedral and Sanssouci, the palace of Frederick the Great. But there were those who thought it “appeared as a typical manifestation of the new Germany, with its huckstering and obtrusive manners, more a snobbism than a symbol of German competence.” The Kaiser was fascinated by this expression of the ambition, ingenuity, and might of an Empire in which he believed power rested with himself, the Prussian nobility, and a powerful military complex. And yet Hamburg's mayor, Johann Heinrich Burchard, echoed the feelings of many when he described this new wonder as “above all … the product of a flourishing, self-conscious German middle class.” Although extolled as a symbol of German unity, Social Democrats denounced the modern leviathan as an expression of class inequality and lamented that ten men were killed and one hundred injured while constructing it. With this in mind, how could Germany be proud of what it had achieved?

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Central European History , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 227 - 256
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 2011

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84 The ship was built principally of steel, not iron.

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116 Russell, Between Tradition and Modernity, 75.

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118 Dickinson, “The Bourgeoisie and Reform,” 171.

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125 WIA.GC. Max Warburg to Warburg, September 18, 1913.

126 On November 8, 1918, Ballin swallowed a large quantity of sleeping pills and collapsed into a coma. He died of heart failure the next day, and scholars disagree as to whether his death was the result of an accident or suicide.

127 The New York Times, however, did take note of the fact that there were German critics of the Imperator's interiors. See “Imperator Too French?,” The New York Times, July 20, 1913.

128 On this point, see Schramm, Das Deutschlandbild in der britischen Presse.

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