'F?rst Bismarck 1815-1898. der eiserne Kanzler', Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1815-1898), known as Otto von Bismarck, a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. In the 1860s, he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states, deliberately excluding Austria, into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership 1934. From Die Gro?en der Weltgelchichte. [Ecktein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]