Michiel 2005's photos with the keyword: otto-von-bismarck museum

The student from the university of Tübingen Ferdinand Cohen-Blind shot Bismarck on May 7, 1866, in protest about the Austro-Prussian war. Bismarck was only slightly injured. Cohen-Blind committed suicide in prison on the same day.

At the end of the Second World War the house of Bismarck in Friedrichsruh was bombed. Not everything was destroyed though, the furniture of his office could be rescued.

The Congress of Berlin was held in 1878 to discuss the tensions on the Balkan. The resulting Treaty of Berlin did establish peace for a short time, but the tensions remained. The Balkan wars of the 1990s were the most-recent flare-up.