Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-08-06
BIsMARck,s CAREER.
Brief Resume of His Great Services
to the EntherInnd.


to the Fatherland.
Otto Edward Leopold Won Bismarck was
born at the manor of Schoenhausen. In the
district of Magdeburg, April 1, 1915. At the
age of six he was placed in boarding
school at Berlin, and at 12 was sent to a
high school at the capital. In 1882 he began
studying law and political science at the
University of Gottingen. Toward the end
of the following year he entered the Uni
Versity of Berlin, and he was admitted to,
the bar In 1885, In 1886 he was made the
official law reporter for a Berlin court, but
he soon was transferred to Aix-la- Chapelle
as referendary, and in 1887 was appointed
to serve in the crown office at Potsdam
The next eight or nine years Bismarck
passed in farming, hunting and soldering.
He went into sciety and took an active
part in the local affairs of the neighbor-
hoods In which he lived. In 1876 hsJather
died, and the estate at Schoenhausen came
into his hands He withdrew almost en-
tirely from social life. and settled down to
the life of country gentleman. July 2S.
1S47, he married Johanna, the daughter OF
Heinrich Won Puttkamer, of Viatium, Pom
erania, and in the same year he appeared
in the united diet at Berlin, as a parliament
tary deputy, representing the nobility OF
the province OF SaXony. In 1S4S he partic-
ipated in the gathering of the rural nobil-
ity in Berlin, known as the Junker parlia-
ment. His career as parliamentary dep
uty ended in 1850. In 1851, after serving as
secretary, he was appointed the Prussian
representative at the Germanic diet at
Frankfort, which was the administrative
council of the Germanic confederation
founded by the congress in Vienna in lg1b
He was made the Prussian ambassador
at st. Petersburg in 1859. where he remained
until 1862, when he was transferred to the
embassy in Paris After few months in
the French capital, in September, 1862, Bis
marck succeeded Prince Hohenzollern as
prime minister. He formed an alliance
with Italy early in 1856, and Prussia under
his guidance declared war against Aus
tria and her allies in the confederation in
June of the same year Three months
later Austria had been crushed and Prussia
had become the head of the North German
confederation.
Bismarck concluded secret treaties with
the South German states forthwith in the
expectation of war. In internal politics
the next 10 years of Bismarck's life were
occupied with his struggle to assure the
Prussian government the control of the
Catholic church in Prussia with his cam
paign for the suppression of socialism in
Germany and with the Inauguration of n
protective system of customs duties. He
also secured for Germany several African
colonies and gave the first impetus to the
up building of her merchant marine Under
his guidance the empire laid the founda-
tions of its present industrial prosperity
and maritime greatness. In foreign af-
fairs he formed the triple alliance of Italy,
Austria and Germany. Having united and
Soldltled the empire by the war against
Denmark in 1864, against Austria in 1866,
and against France in 1S70-71 he aimed in
his later years TO develop 1t internally
without disturbance from without.
Dismissed by Present Emperor.
Bismarck was chancellor to the end of
Emperor William lis reign and through
out the SO days of Emperor Frederick
Two years after the present emperor
ascended the throne he was dismissed from
office. Since then he had lived in Fried
richsruhe, near Hamburg, where he went
to receive his friends the year around. and
thousands of admirers from all parts OF
Europe, on his birthdays. He was long
estranged from the young emperor, and
the feud between the old castle in Berlin
and Friedrichsrube caused a scandal OF
worldwide dimensions. A formal concilia-
tion was effected eventually. but the
wounds left by the conflict of four years
were never healed.
Frau Won Bismarck died about two years
ago. The Iron Chancellor was never tie
same afterward. He failed slowly, COM
planned of loneliness. and, when his last
illness began, was already a weak. sor-
rowful and broken old man.
Prince Bismarck leaves two sons, Count
Herbert and Count William. and one
daughter, Countess Rantzau.