This man's early career included appointments as ambassador to Russia and France, but he was recalled to his home country to act as prime minister when the parliament refused to fund a proposed reorganization of his country's famous army.
This man's early career included appointments as ambassador to Russia and France, but he was recalled to his home country to act as prime minister when the parliament refused to fund a proposed reorganization of his country's famous army. This man, who had a World War II battleship named after him, conquered Schleswig and Holstein from Denmark and then contrived a dispute over those territories with a victory at Sadowa. Although he earned domestic ire by restricting freedom of the press and launching the anti-Catholic Kulturkampf, he took up the liberal mantle of national unification with a decidedly more martial Realpolitik twist, declaring that "the great questions of the time will not be resolved by speeches and majority decision--that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849--but by blood and iron." FTP, name this minister who published the Ems Dispatch that started the Franco-Prussian war and become the Iron  Chancellor of the German empire he united.
This man's early career included appointments as ambassador to Russia and France, but he was recalled to his home country to act as prime minister when the parliament refused to fund a proposed reorganization of his country's famous army.
Otto von Bismarck