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Prince Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand

Herbert von Bismarck (Born Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand

Herbert von Bismarck-Schönhausen; 28 December 1849 – 18 September 1904) was a

German politician, who served as Foreign

Secretary from 1886 to 1890. His political career was closely

tied to that of his father, Otto von Bismarck, and he left office a few days after his

father's dismissal. He succeeded his father as the 2nd Prince of Bismarck in

1898. He was born in Berlin and died in Friedrichsruh. Herbert von Bismarck

born in Berlin, the oldest son of Otto von Bismarck and his wife Johanna, née von Puttkamer.

He had an older sister, Marie (b. 1847), and a younger brother, Wilhelm (b. 1852). He

fought in the Franco-Prussian War,

sustaining a bullet wound through the left leg during a cavalry charge at

the Battle of Mars-La-Tour. He

joined the diplomatic service in 1874, on his father's wishes. Bismarck

attempted to gain influence with the heir to the German throne, Prince Wilhelm, by appealing to the prince's narcissism. In June 1884 he wrote to thank

Wilhelm for a portrait the prince had given after they returned from a state

visit to Russia:

I beg Your Royal

Highness most subserviently graciously to permit me to lay at your feet my

deeply reverent and heartfelt thanks for Graciously Granting me the beautiful

picture...Long it is since I have been so joyful as the joy which Your Royal

Highness accorded me by granting me the portrait with your very own Highest

signature. For me, the words beneath the picture render it the most valuable

possession which I own, and I cannot find words to express how happy Your Royal

Highness has made me. I am truly overwhelmed by the Good Grace of Your Royal

Highness...The few days which to my greatest joy I was able to spend directly

at the service of Your Royal Highness will always be among the loveliest in my

life and...it will be my sole ambition for all time to stand prepared to

receive Your Highest orders and to serve you with all my meagre powers.[2]

Bismarck became Under-Secretary and

acting head of the Foreign Office in

1885, and the following year he was appointed the State Secretary for

Foreign Affairs. He additionally was appointed Minister of State of the Kingdom of Prussia in

1888. He once said that 'My father is the only person who can handle this

business.' In 1890, when Kaiser Wilhelm II called for the resignation of Otto von

Bismarck as Chancellor, Herbert von Bismarck also resigned as State Secretary

despite the kaiser's attempts to retain him so that his de facto dismissal of

his father would "look better in the eyes of the world". Bismarck

wanted to marry Princess Elisabeth von Carolath-Beuthen in 1881, but his father

would not allow it, as she was a Catholic divorcee and she was ten years older

than Herbert. The Chancellor pressured his son with tears, blackmail and

threats to disinherit him by getting Kaiser Wilhelm I to change the primogeniture statutes. This

experience left Herbert a very bitter and alcoholic man. He once shot five

bullets through a Foreign Office window to be told he may have hit someone. He

replied 'Officials have to be kept in a permanent state of irritation and

alarm; the moment that ceases they stop working.' On 21 June 1892 in Vienna he married Countess Marguerite Hoyos, a member of

the originally Spanish magnate family of Hoyos from Hungary, who herself was

half-English and a granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the torpedo. They had five children:

von Bredow (1875–1933)

Ann-Mari Tengbom (1907–1999)

married Mona Travis Strader (1897–1983).

He was at his father's bedside when the

latter died on 30 July 1898 at 10:57 pm.

He died in Friedrichsruh.

The capital of the German colonial

administration of German New />

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