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  Otto von Bismarck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bismarck's Sozialistengesetze failed to suppress the labour movements but made him appear as a reactionary, a reputation he partially refuted with the new and generous social reform and welfare legislation he enacted.
Bismarck believed that the Roman Catholic Church held too much political power; moreover, he was concerned about the emergence of the Catholic Centre Party (organised in 1870).
The new Emperor opposed Bismarck's careful foreign policy, preferring vigorous and rapid expansion to protect Germany's "place in the sun." The rift was further widened by their differing views on domestic policy; Bismarck wanted anti-socialist policies to remain in place, whilst the Emperor thought that he could win popularity by refusing to renew them.
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Otto von Bismarck was educated at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and the Graues Kloster-Gymnasium.
As a result of the Treaty of Prague, the German Confederation was dissolved; Prussia annexed Schleswig, Holstein, Frankfurt, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, and Nassau; and Austria promised not to intervene in German affairs.
Bismarck resigned at Wilhelm II's insistence in 1890, at age 75, to be succeeded as Chancellor of Germany and Minister-President of Prussia by Leo von Caprivi.
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Bismarck was born at Schönhausen, his family's estate in the Prussian Province of Saxony (Province of Saxony: the province of saxony (german provinz sachsen) was a prussian province between the...
Bismarck was also worried about the growth of the socialist (socialist: A political advocate of socialism) movement—in particular, that of the Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party: A political party in Germany and Britain (and elsewhere) founded in late 19th century; originally Marxist; now advocates the gradual transformation of capitalism into democratic socialism).
Bismarck also maintained good relations with Italy (Italy: A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD).
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Bismarck's Sozialistengesetze failed to suppress the labour movements but made him appear as a reactionary, a reputation he could not improve by the new and generous social reform and welfare legislation he enacted.
Image:Bismarck1836.jpg Bismarck was born at Schönhausen, his family's estate in the Prussian Province of Saxony (now Saxony-Anhalt).His father, Ferdinand von Bismarck, was a landowner and a former Prussian military officer; his mother, Wilhelmine Mencken, originally belonged to a well-off commoner family.
Bismarck resigned at Wilhelm II's insistence in 1890, whilst in his pajamas, to be succeeded as Chancellor of Germany and Minister-President of Prussia by Leo von Caprivi.
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 Wikinfo | Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (April 1, 1815 - July 30, 1898) (also known as the Iron Chancellor) was the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (1862 - 1890); he unified Germany with a series of wars and became the first Chancellor (1871 - 1890) of the German Empire.
Initially a deeply conservative, aristocratic, and monarchist politician, Bismarck fought the growing social democracy movement in the 1880s by outlawing several organizations and pragmatically instituting mandatory old-age pensions, and health and accident insurance for workers.
Appointed to represent Prussia in Frankfurt, Bismarck slowly became convinced that a Prussian-led unified German nation was an important goal (this was considered a liberal objective at the time).
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After Bismarck provoked France, which at this time was ruled by Napoleon III, the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 and the southern German states, viewing France as the aggressor, joined the North German Confederation.
Bismarck's belief was that Germany's central location in Europe would cause it to be devastated in case of any war.
Both the Kriegsmarine battleship DKM Bismarck as well as two ships of the Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), and Bismarck, North Dakota, were named in his honor, as was the Bismarck Archipelago outside the former German colony of New Guinea, and several streets and schools in Germany.
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 Bismarck (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bismarck is a name usually associated with Otto von Bismarck, the great German statesman of the 19th century.
Fürst Bismarck, a Mackensen class battlecruiser of the German navy, still under construction at the time of the 1918 Armistice and never completed.
Bismarck (doughnut), a German-style filled doughnut with jelly or preserves baked within, as distinguished from a kettle doughnut which is served open-faced with the filling in the center
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 Otto von Bismarck - Wikigadugi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Image:Bismarck1836.jpg Bismarck was born in Schönhausen, his family's estate in the old Prussian province Mark Brandenburg (now Saxony-Anhalt) west of Berlin.
Their long and happy marriage produced one daughter (Marie) and two sons (Herbert and Wilhelm), all of whom survived into adulthood.
In 1878, he instituted a variety of anti-socialist measures.
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