Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) / German Unification
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- Figures in History: Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
Otto von Bismarck was responsible for transforming a collection of small German states, unifying them into the German empire, and becoming its first chancellor. His diplomacy of realpolitik and powerful rule gained him the nickname of the "Iron Chancellor."
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Simple History can you please do a video on Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War?
Spanish Civil war, yes
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Thanks!
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Bismarck: *dies*
Bismarck some decades later: i am ship
Fail Marine 2.0 lmao
WATERSHIP
Fail Marine 2.0 from the mist a shape a ship is taking form
@@suspiciousneighbor4799 and the silence of the sea is about to drift into a storm
Otto Von Bismarck: *finds the hood*
Also Otto Von Bismarck: REEEEEEEEE
Otto von Bismarck not only spoke German, but French, English, Italian, Russian and Polish were all languages that he spoke fluently.
Would you make a video about the *Winter War* next?
How?
HOW?!?!
Everything is wrong! (0:08) Elsaß Lothringen was a part of Germany! These is the correct map userscontent2.emaze.com/images/8e065392-05bc-431b-af44-0a32495c0a52/bdfffdcefa33afc6d1fed36cbd008ef2.png
Yeah, winter war please
the shown map was the map right before the unification of the German Empire so this is not that wrong but you are right too because Elsass Lorraine was a part of Germany right after the franco-prussian war.
You gotta feel sorry for the guy. He spent nearly his whole life making Germany into a great nation, only for the future leadership to make everything worse.
Wilhelm II wasn't the son of Wilhelm I. Bit of Historie: Emperor Wilhelm I died March 9.1888, his son Emperor Friedrich III died 99 days later (June 15.1888) through cancer so HIS son become Emperor and this man was Wilhelm II so the Year 1888 become famous in Germany as Dreikaiserjahr (Three Emperors-Year)
Actually, Wilhelm the Second found out about Otto Graf Bismarck's little project of inciting a socialist revolution so he can simply crush it with the army.
Wilhelm the Second didn't like the sound of this at all... and with his incredible unpopularity in the Reichstag, dismissed Bismarck.
You are completely wrong informed. When Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck he was already an very old and sick man. Also Bismarcks policies were already obselete when he was dismissed. Wilhelm II respected Bismarck and his policies and never destroyes any of it.
I didn't say Wilhelm the Second destroyed any of his policies, I said he found out about his little project of inciting socialist revolution and planning to crush it via the military and took offense to that, add to his age and advanced sickness, general unpopularity in the Reichstag, among other things got Bismarck dismissed.
Wilhelm the Second might be a psychological WRECK of a man, but he wasn't a fucking idiot.
Aaron Neumann You are partially right, however I believe Wilhelm II was the greatest ruler Germany ever had. It was the British who manipulated WW1 into existence, since Germany was a strong independent nation, not under complete Rothschild control. Idiots like OP always claim Wilhelm II was incompetent, even though they know nothing about history. In fact, it was Wilhelm II who granted workers much more rights and holidays, which also caused tension between him and Bismarck.
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@@Enderboy4030 Um off topic
Bismarck always has a plan
ZombieBare 239 always
Bismarck has a plan. *Bismarck always has a plan*
Extra History fan.
Bismarck: i have a plan
He always does have a plan after death. Currently he is dealing with Satan to bring him back to life, but in case Satan betrays him, he always does have a plan.
People around me: Lol, swag
Me: *_I must unite the German people under one flag_*
i see you're a man of culture as well
S.W.A.G = Secretly We Are Gay
Oliver Cromwell Did Nothing Wrong I think it will be even better maybe to unite the Germanic people under one flag. So Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. That could become a extremely powerful nation!
WHEN YOUR TEACHER THINKS YOU'RE STUDYING BUT YOU ACTUALLY UNITING THE GERMANIC PEOPLES UNTER ONE FLAG
TGL CrazyGhost, German not Germanic. That's like saying all East Asians should unite, which isn't going to happen *cough* China and Japan *cough*
Otto von Bismarck is one of the greatest German People that ever lived!
Nekodias It's sad that he only ranked 9th on a national poll for the greatest German ever.
DPD_Revolution what? Who is the number one then?
Nekodias The first post war chancellor Konrad Adenauer, is regarded as the greatest, Martin Luther and Karl Marx make up the top three. Karl Marx who inspired those who went on to kill in the tens of millions in the name of his ideology, is regarded way above the father of Germany..... such a shame.
Nekodias news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3248516.stm
Oh ok well thats kinda true ^^ thx for your response
He would not comprimise for anything other than a united Germany. The Francs had France, the Russians had Russia, the Austrians had Austria...it was only fair that the Germans had Germany. I love him.
Sullivan Nix The part with Austria is complicated, since the austrians saw themselves as germans back in the 19th century
Noble Thomas yep
Prussia and Austria were both German though
Saying Austrians are not german is like saying Mozart is an Austrian and not a German, but that is the equivalent of saying Beethoven isn’t german but a citizen of Bonn
Sullivan Nix Austrians are German.
I wonder what Hitler and Bismarck would have thought of each other.
I'm guessing Hitler liked him because the biggest German battleship in WW2 was named the Bismark.
@@boahkeinbockmehr
So it if the two had ever met it would be a one-sided admiration with Hitler adoring Bismarck while Bismarck would see Hitler as a psychopathic fanboy who missed the point of everything.
boahkeinbockmehr he wasn’t actually a socialist.
+boahkeinbockmehr Hitler hated left wing people lmao, he was a Christian AND a fascist which is right wing Authoritarianism lol
@@harrychristofi6725 Well if he was Christian he was awful at it.
The phrase, "love thy neighbor" must have missed by 200 miles.
Bismarck: dies
Some 50 years later: comes back as a ship. Bismarck always has a plan
Aight time for the Bismarck chain
Gets sunk
Some 80ish years later: comes back as an anime girl.
@@torpedo996 this applies to erwin rommel
commits suicide for his family
106 years later
girl und panzer also returns as anime girl but still keeping her chad form
Otto von Bismarck was a fucking Hero. Sad that so many wrong people lead his great country
WallnussChef In WW1 i think the germans where right. They just helped an austria-hungary and if they won WW1 there wouldn't have been a WW2. History is weird ;)
WallnussChef yes it's not a nice guy but there are leaders who killed far more people
Yeah like Stalin and Mao Zedong . People in power could be an asshole sometimes
Monarchy? You mean Empire.
Germany was a constitutional monarchy, so there were political parties as well as a parliament. But, yeah, since the Treaty of Versailles had a major role in the rise of the fascist in Germany, a victory of the central powers would have made that pretty much impossible.
oh WOW! Bismarck! my favorite leader in German history! thanks Simple History!
there is more leaders in a country then one.
Gavin Arrasyid mine too
Lang lieb her Bismarck
Ain't that hard. When you got Wilhelm II , Hitler, and Merkel
@@gabrielandersson6689 let me fix your spelling it's called "stupid"
Gabriel Andersson like bro👍
147 years ago today, the Empire, was united.
Prussian Monarchist [the meme with the two spidermen pointing at one another]
you forgot alsace-lorrine part in formation of german empire. alsace lorrine was also a german speaking province that was annexed by france from holy roman empire
Silversreoth they united after war
im from Lorraine, and for your information Alsace-Lorraine was firstly part of the Holy Roman Empire, then France annexed in around 1700, then it was annexed back by the German Empire in 1871 after France lost the franco-prussian war.
Alsace-Lorraine no, it was Alsace-Moselle
A small part of the Meurthe and the Vosges was also annexed. And the official name for the region in the German Empire was "Elsass-Lothringen" which means "Alsace-Lorraine" ;)
Alexander van Maastricht well currently my family is french, but many of my family ancesters were germans and fought for germany during the franco prussian war, ww1 and ww2, so idk really
Otto Von Bismark is one of my favourites ever since i read about him in high school. He like,"help us with this war france and we will give you coal mines."
france was like "pinky promise?"
"sure"
after the war
he was like " what coal mines?"
Thats how he got the german territories back from france. What a legend!!!
tbh it was a bit dishonourable of him to betray the Francs like that.
To be fair, he said he would consider supporting french claim over that area if they stayed neutral. When pressed by the french after the war, he responded that he had indeed considered and come to the conclusion, that he would never allow for the taking of any german land to go unpunished. So technically he kept his word
@@zeuskf62 it's called brains my friend
Otto Von Bismarck: I have a plan....I always have a plan.
prussians invented the needle gun. the first gun that could be loaded from the back of the barrel rather then the front which allowed them to reload lying down. that helped them win all those wars. along with revolutionary military disapline that is widly used today.
+Jesse Logan the Dreyse needle-gun? This will get a video of its own as its a big game changer
It's not the first breach loading rifle actually but it was the first mass produced one.
And your forget that Prussia was the first to take lessons from the US Civil War about modern warfare (using trains to supply the troops with reinforcements, ammo, and food). In fact, Prussia was the first nation in Europe to modernize the use of train locomotion while Britain and France still stuck with horse drawn carriages.
The prussian military officials of the 19th century were partially salviating over the possibilitis trains offered them. But the whole goverment wasn't really interested in them because they had built streets modeled after the French "chausseen model. So they didn't want to spend more money for trains. The german states as whole were partly squabbling like children about the use of trains. It is ulterly hillarious what states were willing to do to one up other states.
The needle-gun was superior in the wars against Denmark and Austria, but in the Franco-Prussian war the french rifles were actually superior. Only through the use of better logistics, artillery and tactics did the german armies win the battles.
erwin rommel
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I say a video on General Patton must take priority over Rommel. This is in no way a biased statement.
Patton528 XD
Germany: earliest health care system under a conservative government in the 1880s.
America: Hurr Durr how do i health care?
hurr durr i have a population of 325 million and a debt of 21 trillion making giving free healthcare a complete and utter economic catastrophe
it's not free it's socialised, you probably pay more than you get when you are young and healthy and when you are old and probably need more health care yo still pay the same or even less. so young and healthy people pay for old and/or unhealthy people
More taxes, YAY!
Maybe if we spent less money on military and nuclear deterrent. it's just not as important anymore. China? They're currently dumping millions in African nations and securing their political loyalty. Russia? They're beefing their cybersecurity and exposing ours every chance they get and manipulating our media. America? Hur dur, need another aircraft carrier for that war that isn't happening!
well we spend 16 percent on our military and 40-60 percent (which is less then Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Russia in GDP) on our social safety net(Medicare,Medicade, and social security). And we must be aware that Bismarck did this not because believed in it he even disliked it according records he did it to have the Social Democratic voters to abandon their party. In fact most of the social programs you would get (Heal-care and welfare) would be after retirement age with was 70 and that the life expectancy was 42. The average expectancy now is 80 in the US. @@itsgwen7606
you forgot the Dreikaiserabkommen he did it was a bond between russia germany and austria his aim was to isolate france from the other countrys and to achive stability in europe thats one reason, why he never had interest in colonies
Me: *sees merkel*
Also me:
*_HOW DARE YOU STAND WHERE HE STOOD_* ???
He was the best Politician in the World XD
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This man’s no joke.
@@sean-thiago1986 when the most serious man is born on the most unserious day
Oh the irony
@@kameradin8964 Actually he was quite the wild man in his youth.
He would often enter his friends hose and fire a revolver into the ceiling or let lose foxes into farms. Heck the reason he joind the army was because he was caught having a fling with a British minister's daughter and his family involuntary 'volunteered' him into the army.
I am really that awesome
Yes you are
otto eduard Leopold von Bismarck Duke of launberg why do people like u just copy a name from a video and thing your cool /:
otto eduard Leopold von Bismarck Duke of launberg fuck i just looked at my name
Hello my friend
otto eduard Leopold von Bismarck Duke of launberg hello comrade
Ahhh bismarck, a great prussian, german and a great battleship.
Evolution of Bismarck
1815-1898: general
1940's: battleship
2018: a n i m e g i r l
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William the conqueror
French Revolution
Lawrence Of Arabia or Kaiser Wilhelm II
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During his youth, there was an assassination attempt made on Bismarck, where the assassin fired 5 shots from a pistol. All struck Bismarck. When his servant removed his coat, he found that all the shots had bounced off his ribs or grazed him, at which point Bismarck put on sunglasses, said " *Iron Chancellor* ", and walked away. (I made that last part up, but, y'know, Iron Chancellor)
So proud of my Prussian heritage.
that makes two of us kins men
Having a hard time finding it on the map lamo
@@welcometogulag9269 Prussia is not on the map (no more), its in the heart.
@@welcometogulag9269 have fun finding the CCCP on a map lmao
@@welcometogulag9269 have fun finding the ussr on a map
Thanks! We studied this today at History Class so this helps a lot!! Great Videos!!
+Harald Schevik glad to help
pike helmets
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4Beats SS really? I never knew that. interesting
Pickelhaube is the German name for them. :3
I T S P O L E N B O Y S I know panzerfaust and panzerschreck but I never knew pickelhaube. "the more you know"
:P you learn something every day
I did not know a lot about bismarck. Thank you so much for your videos
+P Sherman WallabyTankGaming you're welcome :)
Thanks for making this. Its very helpful for my essay on the unification of Germany. Well explained 👏
Interesting video topic I never knew that much about Germany till now.
No problem
I love history and your videos, keep up the good work!
Bismarck was a remarkable historic character who truly deserved the title of "Great".
he wasnt a king
Bismarck did so much good for Germany. He is the Fahther of Germany
and the EU in a way
You never fail to impress me, these videos are legendary.
+Bobby Seinfeld thanks
Ik this is 6 years late, but thanks for all your videos man. I’ve watched many of them in my free time and I learn a lot from them both in and out of school. Thanks again.
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Simple History no problem just keep doing these videos cause they are awesome.
Do a video about Carl Gustaf Emil *Mannerheim*
Yes
ExtremeCynic well that's all if your fucking ignorant
ExtremeCynic Actually,the finns were forced to kick out the germans from lapland in 1944 after the treaty of moscow.The finns didnt WANT to do it,but the soviets forced us to do it.Also,you're probably a supporter of the russians,so i wont listen to you.
I love learning history from this channel
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A great and truly underrated person in the history of the world, his influence on the two last centuries events are huge
just imagine Bismarck surviving long enough to witness the start of WW1
If he had lived up until 1915, he would‘ve most likely kept Germany out of the war... Willy ll. really was a dumbass and a traitor...
Yeah. I wonder how he would react.
Thank you, this was really informative, as always :D
What history do you want to see more of?
Simple History Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Foundation of Turkey would be nice to see from you guys. Your videos are very helpful.
nice vid bro i like it
Lol I've learned more watching this short vid of history then in my history class😂😂
+Hacker 999 Hacker 999 awesome!
When I get old emough, My goal is to reunite the German Empire
USMC K SaVage Dont fuck it up
LoeZung K fam i just need to take land from Africa, Poland and take back East prussia.
USMC K SaVage Wage another world war while you're at it, too.
Ebner Hazeodkovich oh yeah germany shot franz-ferdinand and joined the war for no reason
@@hodor9851 Nah fam, she went to war cuz russians joined in as well
Hi i love ur vids, keep up the good work!
great video
You pronounced von Bismarck like van Bismarck and that's a huge difference ! To be exact, it's the difference between being royal or just Dutch ! :-D But well done at pronouncing Schönhausen ! 0:23
+derhenri2002 ok
Von is the nobility, e.g.: Otto von Bismarck, and van is dutch or just shows dutch heritage, e.g.: Ludwig van Beethoven(he's actually German, but he isn't noble and the van is just a sign of dutch or low german heritage).
der fliegende Hut No we don't say VAN in northern germany
van is also german. Keep in mind that the netherlands once belonged to the hre. Von is also not strictly aristocratic, since it only means "of". It is just an abbreviation of the title e.g. duke of xxx. As von only indicates a location, it was e.g. also common for prostitutes to be called "von xxx", as they weren't allowed to work in their hometowns to prevent humiliation for their families. The only reason why "van" is nowadays more associated with the netherlands is due to the amount of dutch aristocratic titles, as their monarch sold them for quite some time to fill his bags (also to germans). That's also why "van" is usually associated with someone below a "von", though that doesn't necessarily have to be the case. the chances are just due to this title sale a lot higher of having a "money aristocrat" before you if they have a "van" in their name.
Bismarck: *Dies*
*Several Decades go by*
Bismarck Ship: I’ve been Reincarnated but as a Battleship
*gets sunk
Decades later he gets reincarnated as an anime girl and an scp
@@LAV-III I can’t tell what’s worse between the two
Nice for a review thanks
Greetings from Germany!
It shows you a whole story of an event in 2 minutes or 5 minutes video.. This is very amazing (Subscribed and Liked already). :-)
Bismarck was one of the most powerful people of his time because of his adherence to realpolitik, he didn't have a single ideology. He sided with groups which suited him the most.
He used the conservatives to have the liberals and socialists banned and the reactionaries/nationalist to gear up the country for war. While doing so, he also started the world's first welfare state to take away support from socialists. And started the kulturkampf, which removed conservative religious power and replaced by him.
He even had a long lasting effect even on his tiny acts. He once made legal representations for a certain poor German pharmacists to be freed as he was innocent from conspiracy to overthrow the conservative Spanish monarchy. Bismarck knew the man was a liberal, the man would move to the Spanish East Indies and marry a minor liberal Spanish noble. Their descendants would later be known as Zobel y Ayala and would still be one of the richest families in the Philippines.
He really was a brilliant guy, only seconded by Merkel.
I´m not sure if you can compare Bismarck and Merkel because although both have a bit of a Polarisation (Bismarck is hated by socialists and Merkel by far-rights) and both had to deal with some Problems, you can`t really compare the situations in which they were and also not the amount of power they had....
True, I think Bismarck had more power, as he really didn't have to rely on popular support to act. Merkel may not have the same authority as he did, but she has it worse, if she succeeds in keeping the EU united and push through with the integration, then she would have certainly have surpassed Bismarck in achievement, with less power.
I wouldnt say Merkel is brilliant "guy" after all she is rather homophobic
So many Country Respect this man even Turkey/Ottoman.
Twinkle Toes It is an insult for Bismarck to compare him to Germany hating Merkel.
You have otto von bismark blinking A TON
Best episode yet!
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Hey Simple History can you make more videos on ww2?
who runs simple history? is it one guy and some friends or is it like a whole team thing
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so its just you making these amazing videos?
@@baldwynwinter3583 but tho are the otger voices
@@sandeepkamath9339 that us true
@@Simplehistory really i swear i heard 2 other guys working on it
Helpfull thanks
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Otto von Bismark was so liked by Adlof Hitler that he named his super ship the "Bismark" after him.
Could you do a video on the battle of the bulge?
Yes
Simple History Battle of the bulge sounds good it was pretty interesting I think
Nice video! And can u do a video about 1WW in slowenia the battle line that run on a river named soša is realy famus
you are brilliant
I wish we could turn back time to the good old days. Make Deutschland Great Again
We need him again ❤😍
Great vid! World History 2 says hello!
Very nice
He was such a great person.
Bismarck had a plan. Bismarck always had a plan.
You know what I love about Simple History? You guys respond and care about your fans comments! :D
I learn more from these 3 min videos than my whole school year.
Otto von Bismarck really was a diplomatic genius. He made Germany so unimaginably powerful back then. Unfortunately there was noone, who could have replaced him.
When your born on April 1st, You know things are not going to end well.
Have you done the battle of Waterloo? If you haven't can you please do it?
I love this great man
Ah, Otto Von Bismarck. Or the living example of how “you can’t always tell the character of a man from the character of his youth”
A brilliant man who wasn’t a fan of school, getting into many fuels of honor, only being injured once (his foe’s rapier broke I tell ya!) and surviving an Assassination attempt (all the shots either grazed him or bounced off the Iron Chancelor.)
otto von bismark once said "Jena (a catostrophic military defeat for the prussians) came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this."
twenty years later, world war one happened
i loved it, can you do a brief history of the constitution of japan after the second world war and why still intact without any reform or amendment?
Looking at his appearance in that spiked helmet I always wondered if he was in the military. Apparently he was when did national service but it was for a short time. Interestingly I believe he was also in a dueling society when he was in college. Another interesting thing was the Prussians sent observers to the American Civil War where they observed what was going on and they learned to utilize the telegraph and the train systems to coordinate their movements.
"Born at age of musket (1815 ),died at the age of machine gun" (1898). if you understand statement ,do like or dislike your choice ,man
Thats is something I didn't even think about
I'm not a German, but I love Germany and my national pride is on Germany, not my own country
Hell yeah more history!!!!!
Next, can you do the Napoleonic Wars?
or
WWII Factions
I wish Europe had a new Bismarck
Hard times create strong men(Bismarck)
Strong men creates good times(German unification)
Good times create weak men( Wilhelm II)
Weak men create hard times(WW1)
Plenty of other factors caused world war 1
Bro wilhelm isn't weak
And you left the statement in half about the Austrian painter😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏
do more about this time period
3 years of history lessons at school got just so comprehensively concentrated that neither me, nor my classmates were falling asleep.
Bismarck was great leader of Germany and he made the most powerfull country in Europe. Only Germans from future destroyed his work.
The best German to ever German.
I love him
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