The Congress of Berlin ignored the league's memorandum, and Germany's Otto von Bismarck even proclaimed that an Albanian nation did not exist.

The Congress of Berlin ignored the league's memorandum, and Germany's Otto von Bismarck even proclaimed that an Albanian nation did not exist — later he declared he had made a mistake proclaiming Albania was ' just a geographic notion '.

In 1866, upon the Prussian victory at the Battle of Königgrätz ending the Austro-Prussian War, Bismarck initiated a law confirming the parliament's power of the purse, but also granting an amnesty for the arbitrary conduct of his government.

There are five separate U. S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to 412th Aviation Support Battalion, Katterbach Kaserne, formally the home of the 1st Infantry Division's 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, which has been replaced by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to Fort Riley, Kansas ; Bismarck Kaserne, which functions as a satellite post to Katterbach, hosting their Post Exchange, Theater, Barracks, Franconia Inn, Military Police, and other support agencies, Barton Barracks, home to the USAG Ansbach and Bleidorn Barracks, which has a library and housing.

The Black Forest was visited on several occasions by Count Otto von Bismarck during his rule 1873-1890.

In the kind of constitutional monarchy established under the Constitution of the German Empire which Bismarck inspired, the Kaiser retained considerable actual executive power, and the Prime Minister needed no parliamentary vote of confidence and ruled solely by the imperial mandate.

Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner ( 1877 ), depicting the proclamation of the foundation of the German Reich ( 18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles ). Left, on the podium ( in black ): Crown Prince Frederick ( later Frederick III, German Emperor | Frederick III ), his father Emperor William I, German Emperor | William I, and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. Centre ( in white ): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.

The Berlin Conference ( 1884 ) headed by Otto von Bismarck that regulated European colonization in Africa during the New Imperialism period

After Germany was united by Otto von Bismarck into the " Second German Reich ", he determined German politics until 1890.

On the domestic front Bismarck tried to stem the rise of socialism by anti-socialist laws, combined with an introduction of health care and social security.

From 1878, Bismarck tried to repress the social democratic movement by outlawing the party's organisation, its assemblies and most of its newspapers.

Bismarck further won the support of both industry and skilled workers by his high tariff policies, which protected profits and wages from American competition, although they alienated the liberal intellectuals who wanted free trade.

Bismarck saw the Kulturkampf as a means of stopping this trend, which was led by the Catholic clergy in West Prussia, Poznania and Silesia.

The Catholic anti-liberalism was led by Pope Pius IX ; his death in 1878 allowed Bismarck to open negotiations with Pope Leo XIII, and led to the abandonment of the Kulturkampf in stages in the early 1880s.

* was an Admiral-class battlecruiser launched in 1918 and sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.

He was much employed by Bismarck in the writing of official despatches, and stood high in the favour of King William, whom he often accompanied on his journeys as representative of the foreign office.

Bismarck was influenced by Hamburg merchants and traders, his neighbors at Friedrichsruh.

Krupp ’ s paternalist strategy was adoped by Bismarck as government policy, as a preventive against the Social Democratics.

German foreign policy as espoused by Otto von Bismarck had been to deflect the interest of great powers abroad while Germany consolidated her integration and military strength.

Bismarck designed and created the German Empire in 1871, becoming its first Chancellor and largely controlling its affairs until he was removed by Kaiser ( Emperor ) William II in 1890.

The world saw Bismarck as a typical Prussian Junker — an image which he encouraged by wearing military uniforms.

Although Bismarck hoped to become a diplomat, he started his practical training as a lawyer in Aachen and Potsdam, and soon resigned, having first placed his career in jeopardy by taking unauthorized leave to pursue two English girls, first Laura Russell, niece of the Duke of Cleveland, and then Isabella Loraine-Smith, daughter of a wealthy clergyman.

Johanna was a shy, retiring and deeply religious woman — although famed for her sharp tongue in later life — and in his public life Bismarck was sometimes accompanied by his sister Malwine (" Malle ") von Arnim.

The monarch, though initially inclined to use armed forces to suppress the rebellion, ultimately declined to leave Berlin for the safety of military headquarters at Potsdam ( Bismarck later recorded that there had been a " rattling of sabres in their scabbards " from Prussian officers when they learned that the King would not suppress the revolution by force ).

Bismarck was also horrified by Prussia's isolation during the Crimean War of the mid-1850s ( in which Austria sided with Britain and France against Russia ; Prussia was almost not invited to the peace talks in Paris ).

However, in the 1850s Bismarck correctly foresaw that by failing to support Russia ( after Russian help in crushing the Hungarian Revolt in 1849, and at Olmütz in 1850, the Austrian leader Schwarzenberg had said that " Austria would astonish the world by the depth of her ingratitude ") Austria could no longer count on Russian support in Italy and Germany, and had thus exposed herself to attack by France and Prussia.

Bismarck launched an anti-Catholic Kulturkampf (" culture struggle ") in Prussia in 1871.

Bismarck was discarded (" dropping the pilot " in the words of the famous Punch cartoon ), promoted to the rank of " Colonel-General with the Dignity of Field Marshal " ( so-called because the German Army did not appoint full Field Marshals in peacetime ) and given a new title, Duke of Lauenburg, which he joked would be useful when travelling incognito.

Bismarck was created Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (" Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen ") in 1865 ; this comital title is borne by all his descendants in the male line.

In 1871, he was further created Fürst von Bismarck (" Prince of Bismarck ") and accorded the style of Durchlaucht ( equivalent to " Serene Highness "); this princely title descended only to his eldest male heirs.

In 1890, Bismarck was created further Herzog von Lauenburg (" Duke of Lauenburg "; the Duchy was one of the territories which Prussia seized from the Danish king in 1864 ).

* Der tolle Professor: Roman aus der Bismarckzeit (" The Mad Professor: a Novel of the Bismarck Years ", 1926 ; translated by Isabel Leighton in 1929 )

The concept of a " culture war " has been in use in English since at least its adoption as a calque ( loan translation ) to refer to the German Kulturkampf (" cultural struggle " or " struggle between cultures "; literally, " battle of cultures "), the campaign from 1871 to 1878 under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of the German Empire against the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.

From 1864 to 1865, Liebknecht also worked on the magazine " Der Social-Demokrat " (" the Social Democrat ") published by Jean Baptista von Schweitzer ; however, he soon found himself in disagreement with the paper's friendly position toward Prussia and its new Minister-President, Otto von Bismarck.

Operation Rheinübung (" Rhine Exercise ") was the sortie into the Atlantic by the new German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 18 – 27 May 1941, during World War II.

* Sei Jushi Bismarck ( TV ) as Bill Wilcox (" Colt "; see also Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs )

" One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, " Der alte Jude, er ist der Mann " (" The old Jew, he is the man ")

(" Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A J P Taylor.

A petition to the Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck called for administrative measures banning Jewish immigration, and restricting their access to positions in education and the judiciary (" Antisemitenpetition ", German Wikipedia ).

Forced into a policy of confrontation, Bismarck came up with a novel theory.

Founders of Marxist theory Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels attended the university, as did poet Heinrich Heine, novelist Alfred Döblin, founder of structuralism Ferdinand de Saussure, German unifier Otto von Bismarck, Communist Party of Germany founder Karl Liebknecht, African American Pan Africanist W. E. B.

Russell, for example, famously held that someone who had never met Otto von Bismarck might know of him as the first Chancellor of the German Empire, and if so, his statement that ( say ) " Bismarck was a ruthless politician " should be understood to mean " The first Chancellor of the German Empire was a ruthless politician " ( which could in turn be analysed into a series of more basic statements according to the method Russell introduced in his theory of definite descriptions ).