Otto von Bismarck
Prussian statesman (1815–1898) who unified the German states into the German Empire in 1871 through a policy of "blood and iron." As Chancellor of the new Germany for 19 years, he dominated European diplomacy and introduced the world's first welfare-state social insurance programs to undercut socialist opposition.
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