Precedence in Second Reich

How was precedence determined between the federal princes of the Second German
Reich? Were they all considered peers and ranked by accession date? Were they

edespalais...

A cowboy neeeds help, or have we to do with a cowboyesse?

edespalais...

Perhaps the quoted >>"cowboyesse"'s mother<<, or any of her
descendants, can help - sooner or later - concerning the question
"peer", a not great but a tiny little nobody would not mind to be
enlightened!

Joseph McMillan...

Peers as in "equals." Peers of one another, as the component states of
a modern federation are equals. "Were they all considered equals and
ranked by date of accession?" Not peers as in holders of peerages.

Tom Wilding / Stephen Stillwell...

To clarify this for the deliberately dense among us --

I believe what you want to know is whether or not a Prussian graf was equal
to a Bavarian graf and to a Brunswickian graf and so on. And, so there, was
one order of precedence for the entire Reich. Or whether all the Prussian
grafs came first and then all the Bavarians ones and then the Saxon ones and
so on. In other words what would be the procession order at a major Reich
event such as the coronation of a new Kaiser.

Don Aitken...

Or would have been but for the fact that there was no such thing as a
the coronation of a Kaiser under the second Reich.

ranked by title (king, grand duke, duke, prince), and if so, how were they ranked
within each class? Was there a set order laying out precedence among them?
Thanks for any help.