Spa Conference (13-15 August 1918)
Spa Conference may refer to: * Spa Conference (12 May 1918), the first of four wartime conferences held in Spa by the German Empire during World War I * Spa Conference (2-3 July 1918), held during the planning and execution of the Spring offensive * Spa Conference (13–15 August 1918), which recognized the improbability of victory * Spa Conference (29 September 1918), the final wartime meeting in Spa * Spa Conference of 1920 The Spa Conference was a meeting between the Supreme War Council and the government of the Weimar Republic in Spa, Belgium on 5–16 July 1920. The main topics were German disarmament, coal shipments to the Allies and war reparations. Attendees ...

Spa Conference (12 May 1918)
During World War I, a conference took place between the German emperor Wilhelm II and the Austro-Hungarian monarch Charles I in Spa on 12 May 1918. At his meeting, Charles I and his minister Stephan Burián von Rajecz were forced to accept the political and economic subjection of Austria-Hungary to the German Empire in the form of a treaty. Formally concluded on an equal footing between the signatory powers, the agreements reached at Spa in fact endorsed the pre-eminence of Germany and guaranteed its supremacy, while the Austro-Hungarians were forced into a situation of political, economic and military dependence. However, the Spa agreement, which made the dual monarchy subject to an "Austro-German ''Zollverein''" (customs union), failed to put an end to rivalries in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, or to political disagreements over the end of the conflict or the future of occupied Poland. At the meeting on May 12, German and Austro-Hungarian negotiators agreed to set up technical com ...
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Spa Conference (2-3 July 1918)
The Spa Conference of 2-3 July, 1918, called "the great Spa conference" by Fritz Fischer , was the second of the four main meetings between the political and military leaders of the German Empire. The conference was held in the summer of 1918, between Operation Michael and the Second Battle of the Marne, the two major German offensives at the end of the First World War. The participants were gathered in the town of Spa, Belgium by Emperor Wilhelm II, to reaffirm the objectives of the conflict, which was by then in its fifth year. The last imperial government supporters of a compromise peace were disavowed by the emperor, and their main representative, Secretary of State Richard von Kühlmann, was forced to resign. At the same time, the German Army high command (OHL) was preparing for its last offensive of the conflict, after the blows inflicted on the Allies in the spring. The conference was held during the last days of preparation for the Second Battle of the Marne, it was the l ...
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Spa Conference (13–15 August 1918)
The Spa conference of 13–15 August 1918 was a critical meeting between the German and Austro-Hungarian monarchs during World War I. This conference was significant as it marked a shift in the Central Powers' approach, with civil officials beginning to recognize the improbability of a military victory. The German EmpireBetween 1871 and 1945 the official name of the German national state was Deutsches Reich. and its allies were increasingly exhausted, and recent offensives had failed on the Marne and the Piave in Italy. This situation, coupled with the massive arrival of American troops reinforcing the Entente forces, led the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy to seriously consider the prospect of a compromise peace. This was the third such conference held in Spa, the headquarters of the Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL),Supreme Command of the Army. since the beginning of 1918. It followed previous meetings on 12 May 1918, and a second conference on 2 July 1918. ...
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Spa Conference (29 September 1918)
The Spa conference of September 29, 1918 is the last important conference between the main political and military leaders of the German Empire, Reich,Between 1871 and 1945, the official name of the German state was Deutsches Reich. then engaged in the World War I, First World War. Held in the last weeks of the conflict, it is intended to draw the political and military conclusions of the Armistice of Salonica, Bulgarian defection. Indeed, after the failures encountered by the Central Powers, central powers in Second Battle of the Piave River, Italy and on the Western Front, the leaders of the Reich can only acknowledge the strategic impasse in which they have found themselves since the month of August 1918. The Battle of Doiran (1918), Allied successes against the Bulgarians, followed by the Armistice of Salonica, withdrawal of Bulgaria and the Liberation of Serbia, Albania and Montenegro (1918), rapid Allied rise towards the Danube, forced those responsible for the Central Powers, ...
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