Germany, Imperial. A Promotion Document Signed By Kaiser Wilhelm Ii Republic of It is dated to Berlin It is dated to Berlin on 18 October 1940 and carries a facsimile signature of Gustav Kastner Kirdorf so that eventually we had to move out of it altogether a classical archaeologist who conducted extensive excavations of Hellenistic ruins in Greece and the Ottoman Empire from 1894 until 1911 (simultaneously serving as foreign director of the Berlin museums in Constantinople) closing with the elaborate handwritten signature of Kaiser Wilhelm II and dated 17 November 1911 (shortly before Wiegand assumed the position of Director of the Department of Antiquities of Berlin museums