>>12287523Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, was the leading Force behind the unification of the german nations into one german reich.
He pleaded on Kaiser Wilhelm I to fulfill his duty to the german people and subjugate the austrians in battle. and the prussian militarz was so successfull that they felt unstoppable and went for france next. i was pure siegesrausch when they founded the reich in versailles 1871. Kaiser Wilhelm I lived to rule the Reich until 1888. Bismarck died in 1898 and we all know what happened from then on.