SIEGFRIED MAYER GETS ON BOARD: THE 1908 KAISERFAHRT
Today in Berlin: 16 March, 1908
On this day, March 16, 1908, German monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm II (sometimes also jokingly referred to “Siegfried Mayer” or SM, for Seine Majestät), boarded a train of Berlin’s partly-elevated-partly-underground city railway. Event though the railway opened in 1902, it took Wilhelm Zwo six years to warm up to the idea of actually going on board…