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The House of Bismarck is a German noble family that rose to prominence in the 19th century, largely through the achievements of the statesman Otto von Bismarck.He was granted a hereditary comital title in 1865, the hereditary title of Prince of Bismarck in 1871, and the non-hereditary title of Duke of Lauenburg in 1890.
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 ...
Schönhausen was the Bismarck family's estate, in the Prussian province of Saxony. This hereditary comital title is borne by all of Otto von Bismarck's descendants in the male line. After Prussia and its allies had defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and following the establishment of a new German Empire which followed in 1871 ...
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 ...
(in German: von Bismarck).German noble family, titled with Prince ().Two ships of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), as well as a battleship from the World War II-era, were named after Otto Count Bismarck.
Johanna, Princess of Bismarck, Duchess of Lauenburg (born Johanna Friederike Charlotte Dorothea Eleonore von Puttkamer; 11 April 1824 – 27 November 1894) was a Prussian and German noblewoman and the wife of the 1st Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck.
He is a member of the House of Bismarck, a German noble family headed by his cousin, Carl, Prince of Bismarck. He is the eldest of four children. [1] [2] His father is Count Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen. Leopold's parents were Otto Christian Archibald, Prince of Bismarck, and Ann-Mari Tengbom, the daughter of Ivar Tengbom.
The most famous Junker was Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. [2] Bismarck held power in Germany from 1871 to 1890 as Chancellor of the German Empire. He was removed from power by Kaiser Wilhelm II. [3] Many Junkers lived in the eastern provinces that were annexed by either Poland or the Soviet Union after World War II. Junkers fled or were expelled ...