William I of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck

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William I of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck They are two key characters in the German unification. William I of Prussia, the King of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of the King of Prussia. How do we know the german unification are a series of conflicts, generally armed, that occur in the middle from the 19th century to 1871, that little by little they are doing that; what used to be different German states end up coming together in a single nation-state that is what we know today as Germany. One of the promoters, as we said, is William I of Prussia, the King of Prussia. Recall that the state of Prussia It was perhaps the strongest, most important state of all those conglomerates that made up the Germanic confederation.

So that, William I of Prussia was born in Berlin in 1797 and he died, also in Berlin, in 1888. We can say that he was King of Prussia from 1861 to 1888 that he died. Emperor of an already united Germany from 1871 to 1888. William I of Prussia, as King of Prussia, enacted a strong, authoritarian monarchy and made a great reorganization of the I exercise with a view to being able to expand Prussia territorially and thus gain territories for its great idea of ​​unification German. So much so that he had wars against Denmark, Austria, France... of which he was victorious in all and therefore he was annexing German territories to form the great nation that we know today that it is; Germany.

Otto von Bismarck, was the Chancellor or Prime Minister of William I of Prussia.

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