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Otto Von bismarck full name is Otto Eduard Leopold, Fürst (prince) von Bismarck, Graf (count) von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Herzog (duke) von Lauenburg. He was the founder and chancellor of the German reich.
Otto von bismarck was born on april 1 1815 in Schönhausen, Altmark, Prussia , his parents were Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck as his father and Wilhelmine Luise Mencken as his mother.
His father was an junker square from the Swabian family which were estate owners in Pomerania. His mother, Wilhelmine Mencken, came from an educated bourgeois family that had produced a number of higher civil servants and academics. When otto was seven, his parents enrolled him in the progressive Plamann Institute in Berlin. after university took a series

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