The article explores Swedish king Oscar II’s political views and their influence on Swedish policy. The author concludes that for a variety of reasons the king’s views had significant pro-German nature. In fact, exactly he turned out to be a proxy for German influence in Sweden at the turn of the 19th century. However, inside the country the king planted successfully German political, economical and cultural patterns, and in foreign policy he strived for rapprochement with Germany which might even include a military alliance. Therethrough Oscar II has laid the groundwork for an important line in Sweden’s political development existed up to the end of the First World War.

The article explores pro-German feelings' influence on Swedish public opinion which was typical for one part of the country’s military, political and academic elite in the first years of World War I. The author shows that in spite of some temporal advances Swedish pro-Germanists didn’t succeed any significant changes in Sweden’s political life in 1914−1915. As a result pro-German feelings went gradually out to the end of 1915, and pro-German people in Sweden became a marginal minority without any effective political leverages over Swedish society and policy.