Herbert von Bismarck

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Herbert von Bismarck (1892, by CW Allers )
Marie, Herbert and Wilhelm von Bismarck around 1855
Epitaph in the Schönhausen church

Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand Herbert von Bismarck-Schönhausen , from 1865 Count von Bismarck-Schönhausen , from 1898 Prince von Bismarck (born December 28, 1849 in Berlin , † September 18, 1904 in Friedrichsruh near Aumühle ) was a German politician . He was Otto von Bismarck's eldest son , and he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1886 to 1890 .

Life

Herbert von Bismarck comes from the noble family Bismarck and was the eldest son of the Reich Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck and his wife Johanna von Puttkamer .

He took part in the Franco-German War of 1870/1871. As a second lieutenant of the 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment , he was wounded at the Battle of Mars-la-Tour .

In 1873 he joined the Foreign Office , where he initially worked primarily as his father's private secretary, but also served at several embassies. In 1882 he was counselor in London , in 1884 in Saint Petersburg and The Hague . In 1885 he was appointed Undersecretary of State and the following year State Secretary of the Foreign Office. In the Kingdom of Prussia he became Minister of State in 1888, but his sometimes harsh demeanor made himself quite unpopular with some contemporaries. He was said to have good prospects of succeeding his father as Chancellor.

When Kaiser Wilhelm II asked the Chancellor to resign in 1890, Herbert von Bismarck left office a few days after his father, although Wilhelm had expressly objected to this. In 1893 he was elected to the Reichstag for the German Reich Party. Bismarck was a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn .

In 1881 his affair with the still married Princess Elisabeth zu Carolath-Beuthen caused a sensation. His father resisted this connection by all means, threatened his son first with disinheritance, then with suicide and finally managed to have the two break their liaison.

In 1892 Herbert von Bismarck married Marguerite Malvine Countess von Hoyos (1871–1945), daughter of Georg Anton Graf von Hoyos and Alice, born in Vienna . Whitehead and thus granddaughter of the inventor Robert Whitehead .

Herbert von Bismarck died of liver disease just as early as his younger brother Wilhelm von Bismarck .

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Honor

In 1915, ten years after his death, Herbert von Bismarck received an epitaph made in marble in the Schönhausen Church , a sculpture by Wilhelm Wandschneider .

Fonts

  • Walter Bussmann (ed. And introduction): Herbert Graf von Bismarck: From his political private correspondence. (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 44) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1964.
  • Winfried Baumgart (Ed. And arrangement): Herbert Graf von Bismarck: Memories and records 1871-1895. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015; ISBN 978-3-506-78263-2 .

Bismarck also published parts of his parents' correspondence.

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SURNAME Bismarck, Herbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bismarck, Prince Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand Herbert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Member of the Bundestag and son of Otto von Bismarck
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1904
Place of death Friedrichsruh near Aumühle