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Bismarck: General
- Bismarck's life and times
- The Prussian Junkers
- A noble cast based on large (and often poor) landholdings east of the river
Elbe. Still possessing feudal rights over the appointment of teachers and
priests. protestant and rather puritanical. Strong ethic of service to the
Prussian Monarchy, either in the Prussian army or in the civil service.
profoundly conservative (opposed to change, to liberalism, democracy, and to
outsiders of all kinds).
- A noble cast based on large (and often poor) landholdings east of the river
Elbe. Still possessing feudal rights over the appointment of teachers and
priests. protestant and rather puritanical. Strong ethic of service to the
Prussian Monarchy, either in the Prussian army or in the civil service.
profoundly conservative (opposed to change, to liberalism, democracy, and to
outsiders of all kinds).
- His parents
- His father, described by A. J. P. Taylor as 'easy going and slow witted'
- His mother, described by a friend of Bismarck's, cited in
Steinburg, 'not a pleasant woman, very smart - very cold'.
- His father, described by A. J. P. Taylor as 'easy going and slow witted'
- Hated his school.
Saw university
(Gottingen) as a
place he could stand
out as a leader.
- Went home
to mange
estates after
an
unsuccessful
year as a civil
servant and
another in the
Prussian
army.
- Married Johanna von Puttkamer
- Bismarck early political career.
- May 1847: he is elected as a
deputy to the Prussian United
Diet. 1848: revolutions break out
in Sicily, Paris, then spread to
some German cities. 1848: new
Prussian constitution imposed.
Sep 1862: Bimsarck appointed
Minister President of Prussia o
the basis that he will support the
monarchy and uphold it rights.
- May 1847: he is elected as a
deputy to the Prussian United
Diet. 1848: revolutions break out
in Sicily, Paris, then spread to
some German cities. 1848: new
Prussian constitution imposed.
Sep 1862: Bimsarck appointed
Minister President of Prussia o
the basis that he will support the
monarchy and uphold it rights.
- Traits: arrogant, ambitious, clever, unscrupleous. absolutely inflexible in ends, very
flexible in his means.
- Secure in the confidence of the King, confident also in his own abilities. lacking support in the wider political community; no party backing;
already he had created many enemies.
- Secure in the confidence of the King, confident also in his own abilities. lacking support in the wider political community; no party backing;
already he had created many enemies.
- The Prussian Junkers
- The corpus of biographical writing on Bismarck
- The first biographies: celebrating the 'founder of the Reich'
- Bismarck as the hero of the
right after 1918. In the
context of german defeat in
WWI; the collapse of the
Monarchy; establishment of
the republic; and
anti-democratic thinking, the
reultant desire for a strong
leader. Bismarck was
evoked as a model for the
future strong leader ship of
germany.
- Structuralism: 1970s and 1980s - the
biographical form was its it lowest esteem
in Germany. German historians turned
away from Bismarck the person and
looked at the 'impersonal power' that
determined events.
- Recent re-apprasals of the Bismarck Myth:
Steinburg: 'The real Bismarck, violent,
intemerate, hyperchondriac, and
misogynist, only appeared in biographies
late in the twentieth century' and 'he
bequethed to his successors an unstable
structure of rule'
- The first biographies: celebrating the 'founder of the Reich'
- The unification of Germany 1962 - 1971.
- A. J. P. Taylor: 'Bismarck had managed to defeat Austria and
remake northern germany without offending either France or
Russia - a feat previously regarded as impossible.
- War with France: After a dispute over who
should sit on the throne of Luxembourg,
French declare war on North German
confederation. French army capitulate at
Sedan - provisional French gov. is formed
and decides to continue the war - Prussian
army besieges paris and compels it
surrender.
- 18 Jan 1871:
William I of
Prussian is
crowned
Emperor of
Germany after
having been
offered it by
the other
princes.
- Bismarck's position in 1871:
Germany united under
Prussian leadership; huge
national enthusiasm;
Bismarck widely seen as the
'founder of the German
Reich; Bismarck's favour with
William I confirmed.
- A. J. P. Taylor: 'Bismarck had managed to defeat Austria and
remake northern germany without offending either France or
Russia - a feat previously regarded as impossible.
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