Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-01
BISMARCK'S CAREER.
Conception and Creation Of the Ger
man Empire.

man Empire.
Carl Otto Eduard Leopold Won Bismarck
Schonhausen, prince of the German empire
and field marshal general, statesman and
dfplomatist, was born at Schonhausen, in
BTandenburg, Prussia. April /, 1915. His
father was a PruSsian noble of an ancient
family. though not very wealthy, and had
some reputation in diplomacy and war.
Bismarck's mother was daughter of Lud-
wig Menken one of Frederick the Greats
privy councillors. When he was six the
boy was placed in boarding school in Ber-
lin. AT the age of twelve he was sent to
gymnasium or preparatory school His
university course began with his entrance
as a law student at Gottingen. in Hanover,
at the age of seventeen John Lothrop
Motley of Boston was fellow-student. and
young Bismarck formed a lifelong friend
ship with him. In 1893 Bismarck went to
study jurisprudence at the University of
Berlin. He was known an athlete during
these days. and furnished a fit Illustration
Of the motto for statesman, which he ut
tered first in 1862, Blood and Iron" He
served as government clerk three years,
ana finally became a lieutenant in the
Landwehr.
In 1917 Bismarck married Johanna Won
Tutkanner. Herr Won Bismarck had a seat
in the local diet during his last year on his
estate. but was little heard of outside OF
mis- own vicinage. In 1S47, thirty-two years
after Waterloo, Bismarck coming from his
family estate of Schonhausen, which had
in that year been bequeathed to him from
his father, appeared on the stage OF ma
tional politics as member of the Prussian
house of burgesses. This diet had been
convoked by royal edict in response to an
increasing demand for a more representa-
tive national assembly. 1t was a time of
great agitation. He was the most ultra of
royalists, at least as far as concerned his
Germany. When in 1s49, at the Frankfort
parliament a scheme for German empire
was proposed. including the offer to the
King of Prussia of the imperial crown, Bis
marck was largely influential in its final
failure.
In the National Arena.
Bismarck found himself in the national
arena in 1851. He had been sent to repre-
sent PrussiI in the Germanic diet of sew
enteen diplomatic delegates at Frankfort.
1t had become plain to him that there must
be a German empire for safety. He deter
mined that his king who reigned by direct
right from God Almighty should write
himself kaiser. Whereupon this young
lieutenant Of militia took this for his task,
rot counting in the least the objections of
any duke, king or nation. not even the OBJ
Frederick William ~ stood by him, hold
ing the same principles of absOlutism and
the same desire for German unity. He
bided his time for more than fifteen years,
waiting the time when Austria should be
remanded to a subordinate place. In 1853
he was appointed Prussian ambassador to
st. Petersburg, where he became a marked
favorite. He was a new kind of diplomat,
performing exploits in shooting deer and
bear which delighted the GEAR. His mod
est and lovable wife helped him by charm
ing the whole court
The king died in 1881. The Prince Regent
49,. 1faw 7 H.. I>l l. -
Bismarck as ambassador to Paris, so that
he might sequaint himself with Napoleon
III and his ways before entering on office
at home. He went to Paris In the sprine