Editing Wilhelm II (section)

=== Assassination attempt ===
On 6 March 1901,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1901/march | title=Historical Events in March 1901 | date=March 1901 }}</ref> during a visit to [[Bremen]], in an apparent assassination attempt Wilhelm was struck in the face by a sharp iron object thrown at him.<ref>"Kaiser Hit by a Missile Thrown into His Carriage", ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', 7 March 1901, p. 1.</ref> The assailant, identified as Johann-Dietrich Weiland,<ref>"Kaiser Suffers from His Wound— Injuries Received by German Emperor More Serious than First Reported— Details of the Assault", ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', 8 March 1901, p. 2.</ref> was adjudged to be insane.  The Kaiser was riding in a coach to the railway station when the incident happened at 10:10 pm, and the object thrown "afterward proved to be a [[fishplate]]".  The German Emperor was left with a deep wound, an inch and a half long, below his left eye; the Chief of the Naval Ministry would note later, "On the temple or in the eye the blow could have been devastating.  The wonder of it is that our All-Gracious Lord felt neither the object flying at him nor, in the rain, the copiously flowing blood; it was those around him who drew his attention to it at first."{{Sfn|Röhl|2013|pp=133–134}} Despite rumors in the press that the Kaiser had sunk into a depression, he would say in a speech at the end of the month, "nothing is more false than to pretend that my sanity has suffered in some way. I am exactly the same as I was; I have become neither elegiac nor melancholic... everything stays the same."