Fonds Bundesarchiv, BArch N 1024 - Bismarck, Otto Prince v.

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History of the Inventory Designer: Life data<br />1.4.1815 born in Schönhausen (Altmark),<br />Father: landowner Ferdinand von Bismarck<br />Mother: Wilhelmine Luise (born Mencken)<br />1821 Visit of the Plamannschen Lehranstalt in Berlin<br />1827-1830 Visit of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin<br />1830 Visit of the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin<br />1832 Study of law and political science at the University of Göttingen<br /> Admission to the student corps "Hannovera" (later he boasts of having "28 scales within three semesters and always getting off well.") <br />Febr. 1833 First detention for presence in a gun duel <br />Sept. 1833 Change to the University of Berlin <br />1835 First State Examination <br />Referendariat am Königlichen Stadtgericht in Berlin <br />1836 Government trainee in Aachen.<br />1837 Tired of administrative work, Bismarck takes a leave of absence due to malaise and travels for months without an approved leave after his first great love. On his return, he is released from government service in Aachen.<br />Continuation of his legal clerkship with the Potsdam Provincial Government<br />1838 Termination of legal clerkship and commencement of military service as a one-year volunteer<br />1.1.1839 Bismarck's mother dies. Otto and his brother Bernhard jointly take over the management of their father's estates Kniephof, Külz and Jarchelin in Pomerania.<br />1844 Continuation of the traineeship in Potsdam. After two weeks he breaks off his education again and finally decides against his career as a civil servant.<br />Oct. 1845 Entry as a member of parliament in the provincial parliament of Pomerania<br />22.11.1845 Bismarck's father dies<br />Febr. 1846 Bismarck takes over his father's estate Schönhausen<br />Autumn 1846 Appointment as Deichhauptmann von Jerichow for the right bank of the Elbe<br />8.5.1847 Bismarck moves up to the United Prussian Parliament as deputy of an ill deputy. His speeches and requests to speak quickly earned him a reputation as an opponent of bourgeois liberalism.<br />28.7.1847 Marriage to Johanna von Puttkamer in Reinfeld/Pomerania (three children emerge from the marriage: Marie (1848-1926), Herbert (1849-1904) and Wilhelm (1852-1901))<br />1848 Co-founder and temporary employee of the conservative "Neue Preußische Zeitung" (New Prussian Newspaper), after the Iron Cross in the title head soon only called "Kreuzzeitung".<br />18./19.8. 1848 Participation in the so-called Junker Parliament in Berlin, a conservative conference to safeguard the interests of landowners<br />5.2,1849 Election to the Second Chamber of the Prussian State Parliament<br />31.1.1850 Election to the Parliament of the Erfurt Union Parliament to deliberate on a constitution for the planned union of 26 smaller German states under Prussia's presidency<br />3.12.1850 In the Prussian Landtag Bismarck defends the "Olomouc Punktuation", in which Prussia with regard to Austria refrains from a continuation of the Union policy<br />8.5.1851 Appointment to the Privy Legation Council and Council at the Prussian Legation at the Bundestag in Frankfurt/Main<br />15.7.1851 Appointment as Prussian Bundestag envoy in Frankfurt/Main; his primary goal is the equality of the two great powers Prussia and Austria within the German Federation and the reduction of the Austrian presidency to a mere honorary position<br />2.12.1851 Re-election to the second chamber of the Prussian Landtag<br />25.3.1852 Unbloody pistol duel with the liberal deputy Georg Freiherr von Vincke (1811-1875) after a very personal chamber debate on customs policy <br />21.11.1854 Appointment to the Prussian manor house, the 1st chamber of the Prussian Landtag <br />1859-1862 Prussian envoy at the Russian court in St. Petersburg Petersburg<br />March-Sept. 1862 Prussian envoy in Paris<br />23.9.1862 Appointment as provisional Prussian Prime Minister by Wilhelm I of Prussia; until 1866 Bismarck reigns without parliamentary approved budget<br />8.10.1862 Appointment as Prussian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs<br />8.2.1863 Signature of the Alvensleben Convention<br />16.9.1864 Elevation to the rank of count<br />7.5.1864 The Tübingen student Ferdinand Cohen-Blind, stepson of a 1848 revolutionary, commits a gun assassination on Bismarck in Berlin Unter den Linden in order to demonstrate against his anti-liberal policy. Bismarck remains unharmed and interprets this as a good omen for his politics.<br />12.2.1867 In recognition of his services to Prussia he receives from King Wilhelm I a donation of 400,000 talers, from which he acquires, among other things, the Varzin estate near Köslin in Pomerania <br />14.7.1867 Bismarck becomes chancellor of the North German Confederation founded under Prussian leadership, whose constitution including general and equal suffrage largely goes back to his own drafts.<br />21.3.1871 Elevation to the hereditary princely status and appointment as the first Reich Chancellor of the newly founded German Reich; he retains his offices as Prussian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister <br />24.6.1871 In recognition of his services to Prussia he receives from Emperor Wilhelm I the Sachsenwald near Friedrichsruh in the Duchy of Lauenburg.<br />22.10.1873 The Three-Emperor Agreement between Austria, Russia and the German Reich is the first of a series of agreements in Bismarck's so-called system of alliances, which is intended to secure the European balance and thus the position of Germany, which in his view was saturated, in the centre of Europe. In particular he tried to contain the danger of a Franco-Russian alliance <br />13.7.1874 The Catholic cooper Eduard Kullmann (1853-1892) committed a pistol attack on Bismarck in Kissingen, in which he was slightly wounded at the right wrist. Although the Centre Party distanced itself from the perpetrator shortly afterwards, the incident contributed significantly to the intensification of the Kulturkampf. Kullmann himself was sentenced to 14 years in prison in October 1874.<br />>18.10.1878 With the Reich Law "Against the Dangerous Endeavors of Social Democracy," the so-called Socialist Law, Bismarck achieved the ban of the Socialist Workers Party of Germany (SAP) and the labor movement that he had demanded since 1874. He did not achieve his goal of lastingly destroying social democracy.<br />15.9.1880 Bismarck took over the Prussian Ministry of Trade and, turning away from the previous "Laissez Faire", adopted a policy of ordering state intervention />15.6.1888 With the accession of Wilhelm II to the throne, the power structure at the head of the German Empire, which had remained unchanged since the 1870s, changed because, unlike his grandfather Wilhelm I, the young emperor had been a great man of the German Empire. <br />31.1.1890 Resignation from the office of the Prussian Minister of Trade responsible for social policy <br />15.3.1890 Break between Emperor Wilhelm II and Bismarck <br />18.3.1890 Bismarck submits his resignation request, which is so skilfully formulated that the emperor bears full responsibility for the disagreement. The application is only published immediately after Bismarck's death.<br />20.3.1890 Bismarck's dismissal as Chancellor of the Reich and Prussian Prime Minister<br />27.11.1894 Death of Bismarck's wife Johanna<br />1.4.1895 On his 80th birthday, the Bismarck cult reaches a temporary climax: More than 450 cities confer honorary citizenship on Bismarck, 9th birthday of Bismarck's birth.875 telegrams and 450,000 letters are delivered from the post office in Friedrichsruh, thousands pilgrimage to Bismarck's retirement home.<br />30.7.1898 Otto von Bismarck dies in Friedrichsruh near Hamburg.<br />The family resists the wish of Emperor Wilhelm II, to transfer the body to Berlin. The funeral takes place according to Bismarck's instructions in Friedrichsruh.<br />Nov. 1898 The first two volumes of Bismarck's "Gedanken und Erinnerungen" are published. Within a very short time, the first 100,000 copies are sold out. The third volume, which describes the circumstances of Bismarck's dismissal, may only be published in 1919, after the fall of the Hohenzollern Monarchy.<br />Of the more than 700 Bismarck monuments planned in the German Reich until 1914, at least 500 are realized.<br /><br />Description of the holdings: personal documents, autographs, materials from the field of activity of the head of the Reich Chancellery Tiedemann as well as reading films of the main part of the estate kept in the Bismarck Archive in Friedrichsruh with documents on the family history, manuscripts and extensive political correspondence (also of the sons Herbert, State Secretary in the Foreign Office, and Bill, most recently Chief President of East Prussia). (Status: 1977)<br /><br />Contental characterization: The very fragmentary stock originates from the castle archive Varzin and was offered for sale on the autograph market at the beginning of 1955 by the great-grandson, Count Rule Bismarck (grandson of Count Wilhelm Bismarck), who lived in South America after the collapse, via the company Stargardt. The Federal Archives acquired the material from the latter.<br />The way in which Prince Bismarck came into possession of the official personnel and examination files about himself at the time could no longer be proven.<br />The individual Bismarck items from the Small Acquisitions (KLErw) and Bismarck autographs from further auctions were added to the inventory.<br />The find book as of July 1955 / April 1959 / April 1970 refers to further Bismarck items in the Small Acquisitions 5; 20; 33; 319/4, 13, 17, 21; 329/1; 527/2. After the dissolution of the Small Acquisitions, these documents can now be found in the following holdings:<br />KlErw 5 à BSG 1/13<br />KlErw 20 à BSG 1/12<br />KlErw 33 à N 1625 Estate of Heinrich von Poschinger<br />KlErw 319 à N 1587 Estate of Robert von Hepke<br />KlErw 329 à N 2001 Estate of Wilhelm Abegg<br />KlErw 527 à N 1784 Estate of Friedrich Heilbron<br />It should be noted that the extensive BismarckTradition in the Otto-von-Bismarck Foundation (Fürstlich von Bismarck´sches Archive, Otto von Bismarck Foundation). This is available in the Federal Archives on microfiche (117 films, 269 K - 385 K).<br /><br /> cited: BArch N 1024/...

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