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Persönliche Daten Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck Fürst von Bismarck 

• Er wurde geboren am 1. April 1815 in Schönhausen.
• (Historical Nickname) .

  The Iron Chancellor

• Er ist verstorben am 30. Juli 1898 in Friedrichsruh, er war 83 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck und Wilhelmine Louise Mencken
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 4. Dezember 2022.

Familie von Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck Fürst von Bismarck

Er ist verheiratet mit Johanna von Puttkamer.

Sie haben geheiratet.

Kind(er):

1. Princess Marie of Bismarck-Schönhausen  1847-1926
2. Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand Herbert von Bismarck  1849-1904 
3. Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck  1852-1901 

Notizen bei Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck Fürst von Bismarck

     Otto von Bismarck, born on April 1, 1815 at Schönhausen, is
considered the founder of the German Empire. For nearly three decades he shaped the fortunes of Germany, from 1862 to 1873 as prime minister of Prussia and from 1871 to 1890 as Germany's first Chancellor. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death on July 30, 1898, German News remembers the great German statesman.

After reading law at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin, Otto von Bismarck entered Prussian service and became a judicial administrator at Aachen. Bismarck gained prominence in 1851 when he was chosen to represent Prussia in the Federal diet. In 1859 he was sent as ambassador to Russia, from where he was recalled in March 1862 to become ambassador to France. However, already after 6 months in September 1862, Bismarck returned to Berlin as prime minister of Prussia when he devoted himself to the task of uniting Germany. In the war of 1866 he succeeded in defeating Austria and excluding it altogether from Germany. Also the Franco-German War (1870-71) ended with Prussian success.

This victory instigated the kingdoms of Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden and Hesse to join the North German Alliance, an alliance of Prussia and 17 northern German states created by Bismarck in 1866, which led to the declaration of the German Empire (Deutsches Reich) in 1870 and the proclamation of King William I of Prussia as German Emperor in Versailles in 1871. The imperial constitution was declared in April 1871. Bismarck was appointed imperial chancellor. The chancellor of the Reich was not responsible to parliament but to the Emperor. The Reichstag, the imperial parliament, was convened by uni versal, equal, direct and secret elections. Next to the Emperor, it was the second most important institution. However, its political influence was limited to the area of legislation. It exerted only a very small influence over the formation of governments and government policy. Characteristic of the Reich was the „government over the parties" and the restriction of the peoples' representation to a position in which it was only able to express a non-binding opinion on important political questions. The system was described at the time as a „chancellor dictatorship". It was Bismarck as Imperial Chancellor who decided upon policy outlines and who proposed the appointment and dismissal of state secretaries who were in turn responsible for the administration of the ministries of the Reich.

Bismarck's greatest achievements, however, were the administrative reforms, developing a common currency, a central bank, and a single code of commercial and civil law for Germany. Bismarck also became the first statesman in Europe to devise a comprehensive scheme of social security to counter the Social Democrats, offering workers insurance against accident, sickness and old age. In foreign affairs, he, as a master of alliances and counter-alliances, presided over the Congress of Berlin (1872) and this seemed to symbolise his paramount position as mediator between the then great powers such as Russia, Austria, France, Great Britain. An alliance with Austria-Hungary (1879) marked a new period of conservatism in Bismarck's foreign policy.

But by 1890 his policies began to come under attack. On March 18, 1890 two years after Emperor William II's accession, Bismarck was forced to resign. His last years were devoted to composing his memoirs.

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