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In the Kissingen Dictation, which Otto von Bismarck dictated to his son Herbert in connection with the Great Eastern Crisis on 15 June 1877 in Bad Kissingen, he designed the ideal image "of a political situation in which all powers except France require us; and are deterred of coalitions against us by their relations to each other as far as ...
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 ...
Gottfried von Bismarck (1962–2007), son of Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, great-great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck; Herbert von Bismarck (1849–1904), Secretary of State, son of Otto von Bismarck; Julius von Bismarck (born 1983), German artist; Mona von Bismarck (1897–1983), American socialite and fashion icon; Nikolai von Bismarck (born ...
Wilhelm von Bismarck was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, the youngest of three children born to Otto von Bismarck and his wife Johanna, née von Puttkamer.He had an older sister, Marie (b. 1847), and brother, Herbert (b. 1849), the latter serving as Foreign Secretary from 1886 to 1890.
Arms of the House of Bismarck Princely arms of Otto von Bismarck. Prince of Bismarck (German: Fürst von Bismarck) is a title of the German nobility. [1] The German word Fürst historically denotes a sovereign ruler, and is a higher title than Prinz; however both titles are conventionally rendered as Prince in English.
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.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck in the uniform of the 20th Ulans. Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck (28 July 1783 – 18 June 1860) was a German lieutenant general, diplomat and military writer. He wrote several major military-political works and military histories, which were very pro-Napoleon.
Countess Celia von Bismarck-Schönhausen (née Demaurex; 19 October 1971 – 17 December 2010) was a Swiss humanitarian, socialite, magazine editor, and philanthropist. She worked for the Aga Khan Development Network , the Cinema for Peace Foundation , and served as an Ambassador for the Swiss Red Cross .