The heirs of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s legendary “Iron Chancellor”, are embroiled in a bitter courtroom battle over a fortune as grand as their family name. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck ...

In 1883 Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the German empire, set up the world’s first statutory health-insurance system with the Health Insurance Act, which included paid sick leave. Bismarck’s ...

What started as a little security for Germans reaching 70 – who back then were unlikely to live long enough to significantly ...

There's certainly a poetic irony: the great-great grandchildren of the ‘Iron Chancellor’ Otto von Bismarck, responsible for the unification of modern Germany in the 19th century, have descended into ...

01/29/2025 January 29, 2025 What comes to your mind when you think of Otto von Bismarck? He is a lot of things to many, but for Namibians, he signifies the beginning of a painful era of their ...

Channeling Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, who sought expansion when national borders “are not favorable for a healthy, vital state,” U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to ...

The “cult of Bismarck” in Germany is instructive on the cultural basis of Trump’s tariffs and, relatedly, cultural nationalism devoid of an economic rationale.

The heirs of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s legendary “Iron Chancellor,” are embroiled in a bitter courtroom battle over a fortune as grand as their family name. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck ...

The heirs of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s legendary “Iron Chancellor”, are embroiled in a bitter courtroom battle over a fortune as grand as their family name. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, the so-called ...