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Minister President Bismarck, 1862. Blood and Iron (German: Blut und Eisen) is the name given to a speech made by Otto von Bismarck given on 30 September 1862, at the time when he was Minister President of Prussia, about the unification of the German territories. It is also a transposed phrase that Bismarck uttered near the end of the speech ...
Bismarck was born in 1815 at Schönhausen, a noble family estate west of Berlin in Prussian Saxony.His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck (1771–1845), was a Swabian-descendant Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken (1789–1839), was the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin whose family produced ...
Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman is a biography of the German statesman Otto von Bismarck by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in June 1955.
These quotes and Instagram captions get our vote. ... — Otto von Bismarck 23. “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - George Orwell 24. “A great president is ...
As part of Bismarck's system of "periphery diversion", the treaty was highly dependent on his prestige. [citation needed] After Kaiser Wilhelm II had removed Bismarck from office in 1890, Russia asked for a renewal of the treaty, but Germany refused. Bismarck's successor, Leo von Caprivi, felt no need to mollify Russia. A main advocate of the ...
The post Best Dog Quotes: 50 Famous Sayings About Dogs appeared first on DogTime. ... ―Otto von Bismarck (1st Chancellor of Germany) “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole
Engraving of Otto von Bismarck in 1873. On 22 October 1873, Bismarck negotiated an agreement between the monarchs of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany.The alliance sought to resurrect the Holy Alliance of 1815 and act as a bulwark against radical sentiments that the rulers found unsettling. [3]
The heirs of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s legendary “Iron Chancellor”, are embroiled in a bitter courtroom battle over a fortune as grand as their family name.. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, the ...