 Only weeks later he arbitrarily announced Wilhelm II’s abdication in Berlin.The first famous personalities to come to St. Blasien in the 19th century were liberal journalist and literary critic Ludwig Börne (1832), composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with his wife Cécile on their honeymoon in 1837, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, later president of the U.S. Roosevelt visited St. Blasien each year until he turned 14 with his parents for hiking and cycling.In 1905 he spent a part of his honeymoon there as well.