On this day 154 years ago, on January 18, 1871 (November 28, 1870 in the lunar calendar), the German Empire was established. Anton von Werner (Antonvon Werner) oil painting: The Emperor of the German Empire was crowned on January 18, 1871 (ten years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty), the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France. King Wilhelm I of Prussia, who won the Franco-Prussian War, was officially crowned Emperor of the German Empire, proclaiming that Germany had formed a unified nation-state for the first time. In April, the Constitution of the German Empire was promulgated, implementing a federal system and a constitutional monarchy. A unified German state established through three dynastic wars with Prussia as the center. After the establishment of the empire entered the 19th century, capitalism across Germany gradually developed. Since 1815, the struggle of the German people to achieve national unity has been on the rise. In 1848, the March Revolution broke out across Germany, but was suppressed. After Ottovon Bismarck became Prime Minister of Prussia, he restricted freedom in the name of unification, reconciled the contradiction between the monarchy and the bourgeoisie, and took advantage of Prussia's economic advantages to defeat Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866 (see Austro-Prussian War) to form the North German League. 1870-1871 Defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War and annexed the states of South Germany. On January 18, 1871, King Wilhelm I of Prussia was crowned Emperor of the German Empire at the Palace of Versailles in France. Bismarck served as Prime Minister, and Prussia finally achieved the unification of Germany through dynastic wars. State System The German Empire is a Juncker-bourgeois dictatorship. The path of German unification determines the characteristics of the country's monarchism, Junkerism, and militarism. The Constitution of the Reich, adopted on April 16, 1871, declared that the German Empire was a federal monarchy. The head of the Reich was the Emperor, held by the King of Prussia, had the power to appoint the Chancellor and high officials, to call and dissolve parliament, to declare war, to make peace, and was the Supreme Commander of the army. The Chancellor of the Reich was the Prime Minister of Prussia and was responsible only to the Emperor. Legislative power belonged to the Reichstag and the Federal Parliament, the latter consisting of 58 deputies appointed by the state governments. Prussia had a decisive number of votes in the Parliament and could veto bills passed by the Reichstag. The Reichstag was elected by universal suffrage, and its budgetary and legislative powers were subject to the Federal Parliament. The emperor and the Chancellor played a decisive role in the Empire, and Juncker enjoyed privileges at all levels of government and in the