2-660-896 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Fürst Bismarck 1815-1898. "der eiserne Kanzler"', Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1815-1898), known as Otto von Bismarck, a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. In the 1860s, he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states, deliberately excluding Austria, into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership 1934. From "Die Großen der Weltgeschichte". [Eckstein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]