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Ludwig Quidde's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

1927 Peace

Born March 23, 1858

Died March 4, 1941

The Master Leader

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In the record

Ludwig Quidde (23 March 1858 – 4 March 1941) was a German politician and pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. The birth-card coordinate for March 23 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1927 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

1927 — The Nobel Peace Prize

“for their contribution to the emergence in France and Germany of a public opinion which favours peaceful international cooperation”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

Shared with Ferdinand Buisson (J♥). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.

103 other Peace laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.

The King of Clubs coordinate

Ludwig Quidde's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Ludwig Quidde. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

Live King of Clubs meaning page

Ludwig Quidde in the public record

Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: Otto von Bismarck (until 1890), the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II (1888–1918), the Weimar Republic (1918–1933); and Nazi Germany. In 1927, Quidde was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Born into a wealthy bourgeois merchant family, Quidde grew up in Bremen, read history and got involved in the activities of the German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft). In his younger years, he had already opposed Bismarck's policies. In 1881 he received his PhD at the University of Göttingen. The fortune that Quidde inherited allowed him to devote himself entirely to politics. In 1893, he joined the German People's Party (DtVP), which was founded in 1868 and met his anti-militarist, anti-Prussian, democratic and pacifist expectations. In 1894, Quidde published a 17-page pamphlet, Caligula.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ludwig Quidde (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds

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Cards in Ludwig Quidde's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

Strong financial planning and foresight

4♦ — Planetary Ruling Card, fixed to the K♣, from the published 4 of Diamonds meaning

Born into a wealthy bourgeois merchant family, Quidde grew up in Bremen, read history and got involved in the activities of the German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft).

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: merchant.

Also on the record

  1. Eine Studie über römischen Caesarenwahnsinn (Caligula: A Study of Roman Imperial Insanity).
  2. Containing 79 footnotes, the short essay is exclusively about the Roman Empire of the 1st century AD.
  3. However, Quidde drew an implicit parallel between the Roman Emperor Caligula and Wilhelm II and de facto accused both rulers of megalomania.
  4. The author had insisted on publishing his pamphlet under his real name, which effectively ended his academic career as a historian when a periodical had a short review, which explained the parallels that otherwise might have gone unnoticed.

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FAQ

What is Ludwig Quidde's birth card?
The King of Clubs. March 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
Where do Ludwig Quidde's dates come from?
Birth date 1858-03-23 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 493) + Wikidata CC0 (Q76696) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ludwig Quidde). Birth date 1858-03-23 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).