... and conscripted soldiers were taught as much about which way to vote as about warfare during their terms, a course which ended in time for them to begin voting appropriately when they reached 25. The buergerlich army was there to defend the united interests of the Buergertum (who constructed, in Kehr's opinion, the ideology of the Nation-State that they defended). These two interests that Kehr saw as uniting the wealthy industrialist and agrarian classes had their ultimate expression in the tolls of 1902 and the Navy Law of 1900. The Navy Law of 1900 was supported through the Reichstag by the agrarian bloc as a token of support for their industrialist partners, in return for which the 1902 tolls would compensate the German farming community. The Navy Law of 1900 provided for a battle fleet aimed at Weltpolitik as opposed to a blockade busting fleet. Once again, a concession to the ...

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