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Herbert von Bismarck born in Berlin, the oldest son of Otto von Bismarck and his wife, Johanna, née von Puttkamer. He had an older sister, Marie (b. 1848), and a younger brother, Wilhelm (b. 1852). He fought in the Franco-Prussian War , sustaining a bullet wound through the left leg during a cavalry charge at the Battle of Mars-La-Tour .
The Herbert von Bismarck described here was a great nephew to Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the man who choreographed German unification during the build-up to 1871. [1] Sources not infrequently conflate or confuse Herbert von Bismarck (1884–1955) with his first cousin once removed, Herbert von Bismarck (1849–1904) .
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) 21 March 1871 20 March 1890 18 years, 364 days: Non-partisan Bismarck: 2: Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899) 20 March 1890 26 October 1894 4 years, 220 days: Non-partisan Caprivi: 3: Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819–1901) 29 October 1894 17 October 1900 5 years, 353 days: Non-partisan Hohenlohe ...
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 ...
The heirs of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s legendary “Iron Chancellor,” are embroiled in a bitter courtroom battle over a fortune as grand as their family name.. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, the ...
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.
Born into a noble Junker family (the House of Bismarck), he began life as simply "Mister (German: Herr) Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck". In 1865, he was made Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen) following the Prussian victory over Denmark in the Second War of Schleswig. Schönhausen was the Bismarck family's estate ...
Two ships of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), as well as a battleship from the World War II-era, were named after Otto Count Bismarck. Also named in his honour were the Bismarck Sea and Bismarck Archipelago (both near the former German colony of New Guinea), as well as Bismarck, North Dakota (a city in the United States