The Life of Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898)

Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898) <Tab/>Prince Otto Von Bismarck was born Otto Eduard Leopold on April 1st, 1815. He was born on the family estate at Schönhausen in Bandenburg. He is the third son of Ferdinand Von Bismarck- Schönhausen and Wilhelmina Mencken. His father was an old Junker family and his mother came from a family of intellectuals in government service. He took after …

…birthday of the Iron Chancellor. Three years later, on July 30, 1898, he died at Friedrichsruh, unreconciled with William II. Gedanken und Erinnerungen ("Thoughts and Remembrances") was his literary monument, and the 47 volumes of Die grosse Politik der europäischen Kabinette his diplomatic monument. The tragedy of Bismarck's career was that he himself created in united Germany the monarcho-military power that first overthrew him and then in the fateful years 1914-1918 destroyed him empire.