Wilhelm I

No less than 65 equestrian statues of Wilhelm I have been created and erected over the years. Fifty of these statues were destroyed, most of them (31) during WW II, 5 before and 9 after that war and unknown when 5. Of the remaining 15 statues one was sold at an auction in 1981 to a private person and one was reconstructed, leaving 15 equestrian statues of Wilhelm I in public space.

Some of the existing statues are in poor condition, such as the ones in Düsseldorf, Essen and Nuremberg. The last of these still shows bullet holes; damage from 1945.

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