Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as its first chancellor from 1871 to 1890. Bismarck's Realpolitik and firm governance earned him the nickname Iron Chancellor.
Count Bismarck to Herr von Schweinitz, the North German minister at Vienna. Versailles, December 14. The treaties between the North German Confederacy and the South German states, concluded at Versailles…
[Translation.] To the Northern German Legation, Washington, D. C.: The treatment of German merchant ships by France obliges us to revoke the declaration made by us at the beginning of…
[Untitled] Versailles, January 15, 1871. Sir: I beg to inclose extracts of three letters addressed by persons residing in Paris to correspondents abroad. They are taken out of a balloon…
[Untitled] Versailles, January 15, 1871. Sir: I have the honor to transmit to your excellency the dispatch-bag received from London. In accordance with the wish expressed in your letter of…
[Translation.] Versailles, January 17, 1871. Count de Bismarck-Schoenhausen, chancellor of the North German Confederation at Versailles, to Mr. Kern, minister of the Swiss Confederation at Paris. Sir: I have had…
[Untitled] Versailles, January 17, 1871. Mr. Minister: I have had the honor to receive the letter of the 13th instant, signed by yourself and the American envoy, together with various…
Count de Bismarck to Mr. E. B. Washburne Versailles, January 28, 1871. Sir: I had the honor of receiving your answer, dated the 19th instant, to my two letters of…
Count de Bismarck to Mr. Washburne Versailles, February 28, 1871. Sir: I had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday’s date on the subject of the forthcoming entry of…
Count de Bismarck to Mr. Washburne Versailles, February 28, 1871. Sir: I had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday’s date on the subject of the forthcoming entry of…
No. 4. Berlin, March 21, 1871. In the name of His Majesty the Emperor, the undersigned, chancellor of the empire, has the honor to submit to the diet, for its…
[Untitled] Berlin, June 13, 1871. Sir: I have the honor to inform your excellency that, in order to restore the regular diplomatic intercourse between the German Empire and French Republic,…
Count de Bismarck to Monseigneur Chigi Versailles, October 10, 1871. Monseigneur: I have had the honor to receive the letter bearing date of the 6th of October last, whereby the…