Prussian statesman and former Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck (1856 - 1898), 1898. (Photo by Estate of Emil Bieber/Klaus Niermann/Getty Images)
Otto von Bismark, 19th century German statesman, (1900). Prince Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (1815-1898), was Chancellor of Prussia and architect of modern Germany. His ambition was to unify the various independent German states into a single nation under Prussian leadership. The catalyst to bringing this about was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, when the other German states fought alongside the Prussians. France was defeated, and in 1871, the German Empire was established, with Bismarck as Chancellor.. A print from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1900. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
1883: Prince Otto Edward Leopold Von Bismarck (1815-1898), the statesman responsible for the unification of the states of Germany into the German Empire, of which he then became chancellor. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
circa 1870: Prince Otto Edward Leopold Von Bismarck (1815-1898), the Prussian statesman who established the unified German Empire and became its first Chancellor in 1871. (Photo by Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
