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The chancellor who unified Germany with blood, iron, and absolutely zero patience for idealists.
means Otto von Bismarck, the 19th-century Prussian statesman who engineered the unification of Germany and served as its first chancellor, known for his ruthless 'realpolitik'; the name also lends itself to a jelly-filled doughnut and the capital of North Dakota.
from A German surname, originally a place-name: the family took its name from Bismark, a town in the Altmark region of what is now Saxony-Anhalt. The personal name's fame comes entirely from Otto von Bismarck, whose towering reputation later attached itself to other things — North Dakota's capital was renamed in his honor in the 1870s (reportedly to court German investment and settlers for the railroad), and the cream- or jam-filled doughnut called a 'Bismarck' is popularly said to honor him too, though the exact reason the pastry bears his name is hazy and likely just regional naming after a celebrated figure.
- realpolitik godfather
- Coined the cold-blooded art of pragmatic power politics
- sickness benefits
- Invented the welfare state to undercut socialists
- three wars
- Forged Germany through Denmark, Austria, and France
- forced out
- New kaiser sacked him in 1890
- namesake battleship
- Nazi flagship sunk on its maiden voyage
otto von bismarck — prussian chancellor who unified germany in 1871
bismarck north dakota — capital city of north dakota, founded 1872
hms bismarck — german battleship sunk in 1941 during world war ii