How did Bismarck reform German society?

Otto von Bismarck was a Prussian statesman who successfully unified the German states under the rule of Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1871, at the successful conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war. Please see...

Bismarck wanted the working people to be happy and there was no reason that the government had to provide social reforms for all who worked.

Early in his reign, Wilhelm II desperately wanted to be popular; he wanted to be a 'People's Kaiser'. In 1878 the Reichstag had adopted, at Bismarck's request, a law banning socialists from political...

The captain of the German battleship Bismarck was Ernst Lindemann.