the president and head of a myriad of German organizations like the Navy League as to become more influential and in turn create a more powerful position for himself in the German society. Along with joining groups, Keim became a journalist. He focused on the undesirable state that the army was in and his views for a future reformation within the Kaiserheer. By using Wilhelmine pressure groups which utilized press campaigns, leafleting and public meetings, Keim was able to assert his position on certain issues of the day. Joining an Anti-Feminist organization because he believed that Feminists were anti-national aided his position as well as his introduction of the Army Bill of 1893,which was intended to increase funds for the Kaiserheer. By using defense-minded propaganda groups like the Deutsche Flottenverein and Wehrverein to influence the German press to summon a military Weltpolitik, Keim lobbied the Kaiser to subtract money from the Navy and add to the Army, all in which the Kaiser did in time. He joined the Pan-German League in 1908 and became the president, but later joined the German Army League in 1912 in order to become its leader and help aid Germany with its unification while strengthening its army so that it would be ready for any inevitable war. This non-partisan group was intended to increase the army's soldier number by fifty percent, but never achieved such a dramatic reformation. Near the advent of World War I, the group went into a depression because of the lack of money and never regained its full composure thereafter. See also Nationalism Wilhelmine Germany Erich Von Falkenhayn References Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change After Bismarck by Geoff Eley The German Army League: Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany by Marilyn Shevin Coetzee German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition by Robert T. Foley External links Bundeswehr Official Site (in German) German military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War Prussian people of the Austro-Prussian War Lieutenant generals of Prussia 1845 births 1926 deaths Alldeutscher Verband members German Army generals of World War I