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1 day ago · Otto von Bismarck, 1886. Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen, ab 1865 Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, ab 1871 Fürst von Bismarck, ab 1890 auch Herzog zu Lauenburg [1] (* 1. April 1815 in Schönhausen (Elbe); † 30. Juli 1898 in Friedrichsruh bei Aumühle ), war ein deutscher Politiker und Staatsmann. Von 1862 bis 1890 – mit einer ...
4 days ago · Historians debate whether Otto von Bismarck—Minister President of Prussia—had a master plan to expand the North German Confederation of 1866 to include the remaining independent German states into a single entity or simply to expand the power of the Kingdom of Prussia.
4 days ago · Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck. Short-lived attempts at colonization by individual German states had occurred in preceding centuries, but Bismarck resisted pressure to construct a colonial empire until the Scramble for Africa in 1884.
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2 days ago · The causes of the Franco-Prussian War are rooted in the events surrounding the gradual march toward the unification of the German states under Otto von Bismarck. France had gained the status of being the dominant power of continental Europe as a result of the Franco-Austrian War of 1859.
- France and the Rhine Province, Prussia
- German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
May 19, 2024 · In 1890 it adopted its current name, the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party’s early history was characterized by frequent and intense internal conflicts between so-called revisionists and orthodox Marxists and by persecution by the German government and its chancellor, Otto von Bismarck.
May 1, 2024 · The 1866 campaign was a carefully planned stage in the unification of Germany under Prussia’s Hohenzollern dynasty, of which Otto von Bismarck was the principal agent. The issue was clear-cut: Prussia deliberately challenged Austria for the leadership of the German Confederation.
May 13, 2024 · ed. from the diary and correspondence of Mary Phinney, baroness von Olnhausen, by James Phinney Munroe (Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865) Bismarck's Letters to his Wife, from the Seat of War, 1870-1871 by Otto von Bismark
