6/6/2023 0 Comments Steinberg bismarck![]() He towered physically and intellectually over his contemporaries. William I observed that it was hard to be emperor under a man like Bismarck. The sheer power of his remarkable 'sovereign sel' awed even his enemies. The 'Iron Chancellor', the image of Prussian militarism, suffered from hypochondria and hysteria.Ĭontemporaries called him a 'dictator' and several observers credited him with 'demonic' powers'. He planned three wars and after a certain stage in his career always wore military uniform to which he had no claim. He made speeches, brilliant in content but hesitant in delivery, and rarely addressed a public meeting. For twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister without a party. Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 18 by the sheer power of his great personality. This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health. ![]() The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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