What comes after an emperor?

Question

I found out thru my family history, that my great great grandfather was the emperor of germany. Just wanted to know what comes after the emperor, and so forth.

Answer 1

His tail.

Answer 2

Do you mean what followed the Emperor in German history? as has been said, there was a revolution at the end of WWI and there hasn't been an emperor since in Germany.

Your great great grandfather, if it is Wilhelm II you mean, went into exile in Holland.

Or do you mean "after' as in "below" meaning who was below the emperor in rank? An Emperor (German=Kaiser) rules an Empire, which is made up of several other areas ruled by Kings (German =König) or Grand Dukes (Großherzog), Dukes (Herzog) Princes (Prinz).  Under them there were counts (Graf), barons (Freiherr) etc. who  may have own or had some control over smaller areas.

There is a chart on this page that shows German ranks, from the Emperor on down.  IT was pretty complicated in Germany because it was made up of so many little areas ruled by smaller royalty or nobility. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nobi...

Answer 3

THE KNIGHT!

Answer 4

The German nobility was the elite hereditary ruling class or aristocratic class in the Holy Roman Empire and what is now Germany. In Germany, all legitimate children of a nobleman became nobles themselves, and most titles passed onto all the children with few exceptions. All the children of sovereigns did not, of course, become kings or electors, but did become princes or princesses, dukes or duchesses, etc.

Titles for Junior Members of noble/royal families

Crown Prince(ss)  

Grand Duke/Grand Duchess

Grand Prince(ss)

Archduke/Archduchess

Prince(ss)

Duke/Duchess  

Prince(ss)  

Margrave/Margravine

Landgrave/Landgravine

Count(ess) of the Empire

Count(ess) Palatine  

Burgrave/Burgravine  

Altgrave/Altgravine

Count(ess)  

Baron(ess)

Lord Herr

Knight (grouped with untitled nobles)  

Noble (grouped with untitled nobles)  

Young Lord (grouped with untitled nobles)

The German nobility as a legally defined class was abolished on August 11, 1919 with the Weimar constitution, when all Germans were made equal before the law, and any legal rights or privileges due to nobility ceased to exist.

Answer 5

Eunuch..

Answer 6

The emperors of Germany and Austria were dethroned after World War I.  After that, there have been no emperors.  Right now all governments are constitutional monarchies, republics, or dictatorships, whose leaders are no longer called emperors (in the United States one currently used term for "dictators" is "strong men").

Harleigh Kyson Jr.

Answer 7

Unless you mean is there anyone higher than an Emperor - then No he was the highest in the land, at the time. Though I think Germany had many princes, but I'll let you look that up on your family tree... :-))