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Bismarck: A Life

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by Jonathan Steinberg


  Windthorst dies 15 March 1891 455

  Sees Bismarck as diabolical, calls him ‘le diable’ 465

  Witzleben, Karl Ernst Job von (1755–1837), Prussian Minister of War and advisor to King Frederick William III

  Founds (1822) the Berlin Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews 57–8, 92

  Witzleben, Job-Wilhelm Georg Erwin von (1881–1944), Field Marshall

  Takes part in 1944 plot against Hitler and executed 18, 58

  Wrangel, Friedrich Count von (1784–1877), Prussian Field Marshall

  Reads Schiller 44

  ‘Papa Wrangel’ biography and parade through Berlin in 1848 97

  Closes revolutionary parliament (November 1848) 98

  Supports Roon at council on reforms (1859) 157

  As Field Marshall commands Prussian Army in Danish War 215

  Insults Bismarck and complains to King 216–17

  Bismarck ordered to buy estate for, on 80th birthday 219

  Attends dedication of Oranienburger Street Synagogue (1866) 262

  Carries flag at first State Opening of German Parliament (1871) 310

  1. Prince Otto von Bismarck, 1896, by Franz von Lenbach

  2. Otto von Bismarck aged 11, 1826, by Franz Krüger

  3. Johanna von Bismarck, 1857, by Jakob Becker

  4. Albrecht von Roon, c. 1871

  5. Helmuth von Moltke, c. 1870-71, by Franz von Lenbach

  6a. Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach, 1872

  6b. Leopold von Gerlach, 1850

  7. King Frederick William IV, 1847

  8. Field Marshall Friedrich von Wrangel

  9. King and Emperor William I of Prussia, 1888

  10. Empress Augusta, 1888, by Bernhard Plockhorst

  11. Emperor Frederick III

  12. Princess Victoria, Princess Royal as Crown Princess of Prussia, by Heinrich von Angeli

  13. Otto von Bismarck as Ambassador to the German Confederation, 1855, by Jakob Becker

  14. Ferdinand Lassalle, c. 1862

  15. Hildegard von Spitzemberg, 1869, by Wilhelm von Kaulbach

  16. Capitulation Negotiations at Donchery, after a painting, 1885, by Anton Werner

  17. Otto von Bismarck in cuirassier uniform, 1875

  18. Marie von Schleinitz

  19. Supper at a Ball, 1878, by Adolph von Menzel

  20. The Congress of Berlin, 13 June to 13 July 1878, 1881, by Anton von Werner

  21. Eduard Lasker and the National Liberal Party Leadership

  22. Ludwig Windthorst, 1890, by Vilma von Parlaghy-Brachfeld

  23. Otto von Bismarck with German spiked helmet, 1880

  24. The Empress Victoria as a widow, 1897

  25. Otto von Bismarck, c. 1890

  26. Otto von Bismarck and his dogs Tyras II and Rebecca, July 1891

  27. Ernst Schweninger, 1892, by Christian Wilhelm Allers

 

 

 


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