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  Bismarck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bismarck is a name usually associated with Otto von Bismarck, the greatest German statesman of the 19th century.
Otto Fürst von Bismarck (1897-1975), a German politician of the CDU party, grandson of Otto von Bismarck
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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Otto von Bismarck was educated at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and the Graues Kloster-Gymnasium.
Bismarck spent much of the year prior to the outbreak of hostilities at Varzin, his country home, recovering from jaundice, and was hardly in a position to initiate a war.
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, Prince Otto Edward Leopold von - MSN Encarta
Bismarck was born at Schönhausen, north-west of Berlin.
Bismarck was educated at a gymnasium, or high school, in Berlin, but was little affected by the experience.
Bismarck decided that the only way to bring the south into an alliance with the north was to start a war that threatened both north and south equally.
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 Bismarck, Otto von. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Bismarck was appointed premier in 1862 by William I in order to secure adoption of the Prussian king’s army program, which was then being strenuously opposed in parliament.
Fear of France, skillfully propagated by Bismarck, was to bring the remaining German states into the Prussian orbit when the candidature of a Hohenzollern prince to the throne of Spain caused friction with the French Emperor Napoleon III.
Bismarck’s new economic policy also resulted in the rapid expansion of German commerce and industry and the acquisition of overseas colonies and spheres of influence (see Germany).
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 Otto von Bismarck - MSN Encarta
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prusso-German statesman, who was the architect of German unification and the first chancellor (1871-1890) of the united nation.
Bismarck was born at Schönhausen, northwest of Berlin.
Bismarck knew that war would be necessary to achieve German unification, and he began to plan accordingly.
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 Otto von Bismarck and German unification - biography
Bismarck attended some of its sessions as he was called upon to deputise for a representative who was ill. During the course of proceedings Bismarck was often disconcerted by the sorts of policies advocated by members of liberal views.
Bismarck also no longer was prepared to accept that Prussia, as a conservative power, should seek to co-operate with other conservative powers - he now held that Prussia at all times should look out for her own interests without particular regard to the conservative, or other, nature of states with which she was interacting.
Bismarck declared that if the parliament refused to accept a budget then the government had the right to collect taxations in line with pre-existing arrangements and proceeded to collect necessary taxes on the basis of the 1861 budget in defiance of the opinion of the Prussian parliament.
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 Otto von Bismarck - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Bismarck believed that German Catholics were subservient to the pope and that the political power of the Center Party (composed of Catholic groups) threatened his authority over the empire.
Bismarck’s remaining worry was the British, who refused to commit to alliances with nations on the European continent.
Bismarck’s legacy, in short, was at best an extremely intricate system which depended on the abilities and personality of not merely one man, but one particular man whose talents proved impossible to replicate.
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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.
Bismarck's belief was that Germany's central location in Europe would cause it to be devastated in case of any war.
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 Otto von Bismarck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Prince Otto von Bismarck Duke of Lauenburg (April 1 1815 - July 30 1898) was one of the most prominent of the 19th century ; as Prime Minister of the Kingdom Prussia (1862 - 1890) he unified Germany with a series of successful wars 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 mandatory old-age pensions and health and accident insurance for workers.
Appointed to represent Prussia in Frankfurt Bismarck slowly became convinced that a unified German nation was an important goal was considered a liberal objective at the Subsequently he worked as ambassador in St.
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 bismarck
Bismarck's final step to unification was war with France, but first he had to manipulate countries to be on his side.
Bismarck provoked a patriotic war with France by mocking the French in a letter which was later printed in newspapers.
Bismarck was apart of the Junkers or upper class, who supported militarism, and didn't like universal suffrage because it was a threat on their way of life.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), born on April 1, 1815 at Schönhausen, is considered the founder of the German Empire.
It was Bismarck as Imperial Chancellor who decided upon policy outlines and who proposed the appointment and dismissal of state secretaries who were in turn responsible for the administration of the ministries of the Reich.
Bismarck’s greatest achievements, however, were the administrative reforms, developing a common currency, a central bank, and a single code of commercial and civil law for Germany.
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 Otto von Bismarck
Bismarck was the primary architect of the German nation as it is known today.
It was important to Bismarck that "politics absorbed me rather than the question of my position, to which no love of power or ambition chained me, but only my sense of duty."[17] Bismarck quite eloquently claims total martyrdom, complete nobility in difficult circumstances.
Bismarck and Wilhelm proceeded to disagree regularly, until Bismarck -- at Wilhelm's urging -- agreed to resign in 1890.
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 History: Otto von Bismarck and his Policies
Otto von Bismarck or Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, Count von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke von Lauenburg--was a Prussian statesman who in 1871 founded the German Empire and served as its first chancellor for 19 years.
Bismarck's two areas of concern were the Balkans, where the disintegration of the Turkish empire could easily lead to conflict between the Habsburg monarchy and Russia, and France, where the desire to avenge the defeat at Sedan was strong.
Bismarck had not counted on the emergence of new parties such as the Catholic Centre or the Social Democrats, both of whom began participating in imperial and Prussian elections in the early 1870s.
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 The Unification Era
Bismarck believed that he could achieve his goals by controlling the people and manipulating them for his purposes, through the use of charismatic leaders, the granting of limited power, or even the use of the army, if necessary.
Bismarck knew that to achieve his goal of a unified Germany under Prussia, he was going to have to get the people on his side and stop other countries from forming a coalition against Prussia.
Bismarck's goal was to shift the control of religious education from the church to the state.
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 Otto Von Bismarck - Uncyclopedia
Otto von Bismarck (1881 - 1949), dubbed the "Iron Fist", was an infamous philosopher and the Pastry King of Bavaria, inventor of Germany, Bavarian Cream and various sweet-filled baked confections.
Bismarcks were submitted to the judges at the Grand Paris Exposition of 1895 and won fifteen gold medals.
When the war ended von Bismarck's industrial base was in ruins, although the Nazis enjoyed his pastries enough to name their ship Bismark for him.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Bismarck, Otto von   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
BISMARCK, OTTO VON [Bismarck, Otto von], 1815-98, German statesman, known as the Iron Chancellor.
In the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) that ensued the states of S Germany rallied to the Prussian cause as Bismarck had anticipated, and in Jan., 1871, William I of Prussia was proclaimed German emperor.
Bismarck, Otto von: Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898): Realpolitik und Revolution.
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 BISMARCK MEMORIAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bismarck was born on April 1, 1815, at Schönhausen, northwest of Berlin, the son of a landowning nobleman (Junker) and an upper-middle-class commoner; his multifaceted background accounts for the unique blend of intellectual subtlety and Junker parochialism in his personal makeup.
Bismarck succeeded in discrediting the liberals, but had to make his peace with the Roman Catholics, and although he failed to defeat the Socialists, the social security legislation he introduced-national accident and health insurance and old-age pensions-ended whatever revolutionary designs they may have had.
Evaluation In striving for German unification Bismarck did not simply resort to "blood and iron." His moves were carefully prepared diplomatically, and he ended his wars as soon as his immediate objectives had been obtained.
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 Otto von Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bismarck was born on April 1, 1815, in the aristocratic family of estate owners at Schoenhausen in Prussia.
Bismarck was not an outstanding student, and spent much of his time drinking with his fellows in an aristocratic fraternity.
Bismarck's political views in the beginning of his career were those of a typical country squire.
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 Berlin: The City as Body The City as Metaphor
Bismarck was born at Schönhausen, in the Kingdom of Prussia.
When her son Otto was seven, she enrolled him in the progressive Plamann Institute in Berlin and moved to the capital to be near him.
The young Bismarck resented exchanging an easy life in the country for a more circumscribed life in a large city, where in school he was pitted against the sons of Berlin's best-educated families.
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 History Archives - Otto von Bismarck
The idea was first put forward, at Bismarck's behest, in 1881 by Germany's Emperor, William the First, in a ground-breaking letter to the German Parliament.
Bismarck was motivated to introduce social insurance in Germany both in order to promote the well-being of workers in order to keep the German economy operating at maximum efficiency, and to stave-off calls for more radical socialist alternatives.
In fact, Germany initially set age 70 as the retirement age (and Bismarck himself was 74 at the time) and it was not until 27 years later (in 1916) that the age was lowered to 65.
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 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck was born in Brandenburg, Germany in 1815.
Bismarck served as a foreign ambassador in Russia (St. Petersburg: 1859) and France (Paris: 1862).
Bismarck dealt severely with trade unionists but in an effort to reduce the appeals of socialism, Bismarck he introduced the world's first modern welfare scheme which provided sickness, accident and old age benefits (1883-87).
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 Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen was born on April 1, 1815, at Schönhausen, a family estate in Prussia.
Bismarck was determined to free the states from Austrian domination and to unite them under Prussian rule.
Bismarck, raised to the rank of prince, became chancellor.
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 Bismarck, Otto von   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bismarck, Otto von remains one of the most significant political figures of modern Germany.
In the Spring of 1848, Bismarck was di smayed by the Crown's collaboration with the liberal opposition in creating a constitutional and representative political order.
Bismarck's view of Germany was based on territory rather than on language and culture.
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 KBismarck.com - Otto von Bismarck
The battleship Bismarck was named in honour of Otto Fürst von Bismarck, the architect of German unification and the arbiter of European politics during the second half of the 19th century.
Bismarck, also known as the "Iron Chancellor", was the founder and first chancellor of the German Empire, and through his diplomatic skills, he managed to maintain the peace in Europe for a generation.
Otto von Bismarck was born on 1 April 1815 at Schönhausen in Brandenburg, Prussia.
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 Germany - Bismarck and Unification
The king had summoned Bismarck to direct Prussia's government in the face of the Prussian parliament's refusal to pass a budget because it disagreed with army reforms desired by the king and his military advisers.
Bismarck's military and political successes were remarkable, but the first had been achieved at considerable risk, and the second were by no means complete.
Bismarck's major war aim--the voluntary entry of the south German states into a constitutional German nation-state--occurred during the patriotic frenzy generated by stunning military victories against French forces in the fall of 1870.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bismarck, Otto von   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bismarck, Otto von BISMARCK, OTTO VON [Bismarck, Otto von], 1815-98, German statesman, known as the Iron Chancellor.
As a founder and head of the Catholic Center party, he became the Reichstag's foremost opponent of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the dispute between the chancellor and the German Roman Catholics known as the Kulturkampf.
William II WILLIAM II [William II] 1859-1941, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia (1888-1918), son and successor of Frederick III and grandson of William I of Germany and of Queen Victoria of England.
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 Otto von Bismarck - German Chancellor and Prussian Prime Minister
The extent to which Bismarck was responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871 is a highly controversial topic amongst historians.
Bismarck spent his last years gathering his memoirs (Gedanken und Erinnerungen; "Thoughts and Memories"), and died at 83 years of age in 1898, in Friedrichsruh.
Both the WWII-era Kriegsmarine battleship 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 and Bismarck Sea outside the former German colony of New Guinea, and several streets and schools in Germany.
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 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck: Alignments and Alliances - Alignments and Alliances Bismarck, the creator of the German empire, became its first chancellor.
Otto von Bismarck: End of the Era - End of the Era The Bismarckian era closed with the death of Emperor Frederick III.
Otto von Bismarck: Wars with Austria and France - Wars with Austria and France Bismarck was appointed premier in 1862 by William I in order to secure...
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