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    Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck (28 July 1783 – 18 June 1860) was a German lieutenant general, diplomat and military writer. He wrote several major...
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    Count Wilhelm Otto Albrecht von Bismarck-Schönhausen (1 August 1852 – 30 May 1901) was a German counselor, civil servant and politician, who served as...
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    and his son succeeded him as Wilhelm II. In March 1890, the young Kaiser dismissed longtime Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and assumed direct control over...
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    Crevese-Briest branch of the family were Levin Friedrich von Bismarck (1703–1774) and his son August Wilhelm von Bismarck (1750–1783), both Prussian ministers (of...
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    William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his...
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    Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (/ˈbɪzmɑːrk/; born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck; 1 April 1815 – 30 July...
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    Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand Herbert, Prince of Bismarck (born Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand Herbert Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen; 28 December 1849 – 18 September...
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  • Friedrich August Ludwig, Graf von Bismarck (from 1862 von Bismarck-Schierstein) (19 August 1809 – 16 April 1893) was a German lawyer and Member of Parliament...
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    Bachmann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck Herbert von Bismarck Max von Boehn (general) Paul von Breitenbach Bernhard von Bülow Stephan Burián von Rajecz Carl...
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    Ulrich Wille. She was a granddaughter of German diplomat Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck (1783-1860) on her mother's side, and of novelist Eliza Wille...
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    Labyrinth." Rich, Norman (1965a). Friedrich von Holstein, politics and diplomacy in the era of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz (3 February 1721 – 8 November 1773) was a Prussian officer, lieutenant general, and among the greatest of the Prussian...
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    Otto von Bismarck. Caprivi's brother was lieutenant general Raimund von Caprivi and his nephew, Leo von Caprivi was an aide-de-camp to Emperor Wilhelm II...
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  • to Bismarck's that a Russian alliance will safeguard the Prussians in the east. Paul Hartmann as Otto von Bismarck Friedrich Kayßler as King Wilhelm I...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the...
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    Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (/ˈʃleɪɡəl/ SHLAY-gəl; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃleːɡl̩]; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet...
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    Baryatinsky Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck Julius von Bose Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe Ludwig von Bogdandy Konrad von Burgsdorff...
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    their wooden carriages or blowing off their trunnions. Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, in his Lectures on the Tactics of Cavalry, recommended that...
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    Frederick William IV (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV.; 15 October 1795 – 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia...
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    Frederick III (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 1831 – 15 June 1888) was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days between March and June...
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    Married secondly on 7 September 1807 to Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck (28 July 1783 - 18 July 1860). Friedrich Wilhelm (Biebrich, 30 July 1780 - Biebrich...
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    As Minister of War from 1859 to 1873, Roon, along with Otto von Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke, was a dominating figure in Prussia's government during...
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    of Kaiser Wilhelm II Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), German statesman, Prussian chancellor and prime minister of the German Empire Max von Fabeck (1854–1916)...
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  • von Bismarck (1737–1796) and his wife née von Kaphengst, as an heir. When that couple had an own son, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Achatz von Bismarck (1786-1856)...
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    Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck held power in Germany from 1871 to 1890 as Chancellor of the German Empire. He was removed from power by Kaiser Wilhelm II....
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    The abdication of Wilhelm II as German Emperor and King of Prussia was declared unilaterally by Chancellor Max von Baden at the height of the German revolution...
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    less standard model across Germany to honour its first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (d. 1898). A total of 234 of these towers were inventoried by Kloss and...
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    Field-Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, von Waldersee gained influence with the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, who promoted...
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    by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher as the University...
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    Mackensen class, Mackensen, Graf Spee, and Prinz Eitel Friedrich were launched, and Fürst Bismarck was not—but none were completed, after wartime shipbuilding...
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