Can u tell me something about the German states during Bismarch's time?

Answer 1

In the early 1860s, there were some 40 independent states loosely organised in the "German Confederation" which did not have a central administration or a central military command. Prussia was a distant second to Austria in both population and influence in the German Confederation. After having provoked three wars (the German-Danish war of 1864 where the Prussians found out all about the Austrian military forces fighting as their allies; the Prussian-Austrian war of 1866 where the knowledge was used to defeat the Austrians and dissolve the German Confederation, and the German-French war of 1870/71, where Prussia led the German forces) Bismarck had reached his goals: Austria had been kicked out of Germany, the smaller Gerjman states had been bullied into submission to Prussia, and the second most powerful monarch in Germany, mad Louis II of Bavaria, having been heavily bribed, offered the crown of a German Emperor to Bismarck's boss, the king of Prussia.

Answer 2

Well, I can say that he was instrumental in uniting the various German states in 1870, as well as cementing Prussia as the leading state, and hence securing the Prussian Kaisers as the rulers of the unified Germany. He was also instrumental in securing victory during the French-Prussian War, which reaffirmed the ambition of a unified Germany. After all, he basically ruled the new Germany with his "iron and blood" ethic.

Answer 3

No Jason, but I can tell you something about Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) that you don't know - his last name was spelt B-i-s-m-a-r-c-k.