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Early years. 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 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.
The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) west of Brest, France, on 26–27 May 1941 between the German battleship Bismarck and naval and air elements of the British Royal Navy. Although it was a decisive action between capital ships, it has no generally ...
A Bismarck tower (German: Bismarckturm) is a specific type of monument built according to a more or 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 Seele in 2007 [1] but more have been discovered since making the total around 240.
Hamish Hamilton. Publication date. 1955. Media type. Print ( hardcover and paperback) Pages. 286. Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman is a biography of the German statesman Otto von Bismarck by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in June 1955.
Minister President. Otto von Bismarck. Albrecht von Roon. History. Predecessor. Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen cabinet. Successor. Caprivi cabinet. The Bismarck-Roon Cabinet formed the Prussian State Ministry appointed by King William I, and his successors Frederick III, and William II, from September 23, 1862, to March 30, 1890.
Website. www.dickinsonstate.edu. Dickinson State University ( DSU) is a public university in Dickinson, North Dakota. It is part of the North Dakota University System. It was founded in 1918 as Dickinson State Normal School [6] and granted full university status in 1987.
Battle for Königshügel. The Battle of Königshügel ( Danish: Kampene ved Kongshøj ), also known as the Battle of Ober-Selk was a battle in the Second Schleswig War where Austrian Major General Gondrecourt and his infantry brigade succeeded in occupying the area in front of the Danevirke near Ober-Selk ( Danish: Øvre Selk) and taking the ...
Bismarckplatz, Heidelberg. The Bismarckplatz ( pronunciation ⓘ) in Heidelberg is a square named for Otto von Bismarck, located at the western end of the Hauptstrasse, which forms the boundary between the old city and the suburb of Bergheim. It is one of the main squares of Heidelberg and one of the central nodes of the public transport system ...