What was an “Aide to the Kaiser”?

by Albert_The_First

I was doing a bit of family history and saw one man was an “Aide to the Kaiser” before fleeing to America. Attached was a picture of him in a German military uniform. This would’ve been in the 1860s in Germany.

jschooltiger

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