His philosophy was shaped by his time in the von Gerlach circle, with whom he collaborated on a column in the Kreuzzeitung.
His philosophy was shaped by his time in the von Gerlach circle, with whom he collaborated on a column in the Kreuzzeitung. As a representative to the Erfurt Parliament in 1849, he denounced unification as "a putrid brew of sentimentality," and he later negotiated the Three Emperors League, launched the Kulturkampf, and altered the Ems Telegram. He warned that "the great questions of the day will not be setteld by speeches and majority decisions...by by blood and iron." After the success of his realpolitik in the Franco-Prussian War, he was elevated to Chancellor of the new German Empire. FTP, name this Prussian diplomat.
His philosophy was shaped by his time in the von Gerlach circle, with whom he collaborated on a column in the Kreuzzeitung.
Otto Eduard Leopold, F?rst von Bismarck, Graf von Bismarck-Sch?nhausen, Herzog von Lauenburg