Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-08-04
BIsMARCK,s CAREER.
A Brief Resume of His Great Services
to the Fatherland

Otto Edward Leopold Won Bismarck was
born at the manor of Schoenhausen, in the
district of Magdeburg, April /, 1915 At the
age of six he was placed in boarding
school at Berlin, and at IL was sent to a
high school at the capital. In 1892 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 Berlin court, but
ne soon was transferred to Aix-la -Chapelle
as referendary. and in 1887 was appointed
to serve in the crown Office at Potsdam
Inc next eight or nine years Bismarck
passed in farming hunting and soldering.
He went into siciety and took an active
part In the local affairs of the neighbour
hoods In which he lived. In 1S45 his father
died, and the estate at Schoenhausen came
into his hands He withdrew almost en-
tirely from social life. and settled down to
the HE OF a country gentleman. July %,
lSH he married Johanna, the daughter Of
Heinrich Won Puttkamer, of Viatium Pom
erania, and in the same year he appea red
In the united diet at Berlin, as 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 pa rlia-
ment His career as parliamentary dep
uty ended in 1850 In 1851, after serving as
secretary, he was app ointed the Prussiau
representative at the Germanic diet at
Frankfort, which was the administrative
council OF the Germanic confederation,
founded by the congress in Vienna in 1876
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 a 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
tho South German states forthwith, in the
expectation of war. In internal politics
the next 10 years Of Bismarcks 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 a
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-
lions of its present industrial prosperity
and maritime greatness. In foreign af-
fairs he formed the triple alliance of Italy,
AuSlrld anu Iermdny. having united ana
solidified 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 it internally
without disturbance from without.
Dismissed by Present Emperor.
Bismarck was chancellor to the end Of
Emperor William is reign and through
out the SO days of Emperor Frederick.
Two years after the present emperor
assembled 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 conciha-
ton 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 tho
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.