bismarck

Let's say that Otto von Bismarck, fresh off of ensuring Prussian supremacy in Germany by defeating Austria in the Seven Weeks' War, gets into an accident that incapacitates him and forces Wilhelm I to get a new Foreign Minister. Let's also say this happens before 1870, before Bismarck can unite...

We all know about the importance of Otto von Bismarck to the creation of the German Empire and many of it's successes while its chancellor. Formational in his political outlook were his years as a deputy to the Frankfurt Diet of the German Confederation. He gained an appreciation for German...

The zeitgeist, spirit of the age, can often be radically changed or altered by the few or even one man at a particular point in time. In the late 1800s in our timeline, Germany it was set by Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Prussian Junkers who favored conservative autocratic monarchy and the...

Bismarck said the next great European war would be set off by some damn foolish thing in the Balkans. Let's switch it up. With a POD of 1688 (200 years), have it so that the Balkans (or most of it) are a unified empire that boasts a strong army and booming industry. Meanwhile Germany is a bunch...

According to Wikipedia, Ferdinand Cohen-Blind (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cohen-Blind) was a jewish-german student who made an attempt at assassinating Prussian Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck with the apparent intent of preventing a war between Austria and Prussia. He failed, as the...

Hey guys, just wanting to ask a couple of quick questions here. For an ATL Bismarck class, could a 2 X 4-15" gun design have made a better ship that OTL 4 X 2-15" gun design? I know of the historical theory that made them go the route they did, as well as the historical fact that the theory...

What if the German navy used the English Channel as a route to break into the North Atlantic? Capital ships used that route to get back to Germany during Operation Cerebus. For a more concrete example, what if the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen took the English Channel instead of the Denmark...

So, following defeat in the German-Danish war, Christian IX went behind the backs of the Danish government to contact the Prussians, offering that the whole of Denmark could join the German confederation, if Denmark could stay united with Schleswig and Holstein. This proposal was rejected by...

Hi all If this topic has been discussed before please post the link thank you. Even though I am pitching this scenario of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern becoming the Spanish King I cannot see it happening because he was used as a puppet by Bismarck for France to declare war on Germany even...