Das Deutsche Kaiserreich Edit The German Empire Edit. (German History) #kaiser #germanempire #germany #ww1 #historytime The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich),[a][10][11] also referred to as Imperial Germany,[12] the Second Reich,[b][13] or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich[14] from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when Germany changed its form of government to a republic.[15] The German Empire consisted of 25 states, each with its o