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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 ...
Taylor had previously written Germany's First Bid for Colonies 1884-1885: A Move in Bismarck's European Policy and The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, both of which in different ways covered Bismarck's foreign policy. To learn more about his personal life, Taylor read many biographies of Bismarck and a few monographs in French ...
Otto Christian Archibald, Prince of Bismarck (25 September 1897 in Schönhausen, Brandenburg – 24 December 1975), was a German politician and diplomat, and the Prince of Bismarck from 1904 to his death (since 1919 only as a part of his name).
Though Otto von Bismarck never completely got over his love for the late Marie von Thadden (1822-1846) and even entered a passionate affair with Princess Katarina Orlova (1840-1875), born Princess Trubetskoy, wife of the Russian envoy Nikolay Alexeyevich Orlov, his marriage with Johanna turned out to be a happy one.
Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney (January 26, 1833 – June 29, 1907) was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and King George V of Hanover.
The Bismarck Cabinet was the first cabinet of the German Empire, led by Otto von Bismarck from the unification of Germany in 1871 until 1890. Composition [ edit ]
As Crown Prince, he had conflicts with Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor whom his father had appointed. [30] Because William was a dogmatic soldier and unlikely to change his ideas at the age of sixty-four, [31] he regularly clashed with the Diet over policies. In September 1862, one such disagreement almost led to Frederick being crowned and ...
Ernst Engelberg (5 April 1909 – 18 December 2010) was a German university professor and Marxist historian. [1]He made a particularly noteworthy contribution with his two-volume biography of Otto von Bismarck [2] which in the view of at least one commentator represented a paradigm shift for historiography in the German Democratic Republic.