Ferdinand von Bismarck

Ferdinand Graf von Bismarck - Herbord Ivar Schönhausen ( born November 22, 1930 in London ) is a lawyer and head of the princely house Bismarck Schönhausen. As such, he calls himself since 1975 Fürst von Bismarck.

Life

Bismarck was born in London, the son of the diplomat Prince Otto von Bismarck (1897-1975) and the Swedish Ann Mari Tengbom. He is a great grandson of the first German Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck ( 1815-1898 ).

After schooling in Sweden and Germany and graduating from the Schloss Salem Ferdinand von Bismarck first worked on a coffee farm in Brazil.

After training in a bank Bismarck studied law and economics in Cologne and Freiburg, which he successfully completed the state examination. After the clerkship, he also acquired in 1960, the second state exam in Freiburg.

He began his real career in 1961 as a lawyer in the Main Board of the EEC in Brussels. Later he settled as a lawyer in Hamburg. Beginning of the 70 established from Bismarck as a real estate entrepreneur. Its members are the exclusive Marbella Hill Club, as well as the " Park Palace complex" in Monte Carlo. He lives at Schloss Friedrichsruh and is focused on the legacy of his noble family. This includes possession as the 6,000 -acre forest Saxony, and the Prince of Bismarck distillery Schönau. Ferdinand von Bismarck is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Foundation of Lauenburg, and the Advisory Board of Dresdner Bank.

Since 1960, Ferdinand von Bismarck is married originating from Belgium Countess Elisabeth Lippens. His wife's grandfather, Count Maurice Lippens August (1875-1956), once a pioneer in the development of the Congo for Belgium and was a minister under King Leopold III. The marriage produced four children: Carl- Eduard ( b. 1961 ), Gottfried ( 1962-2007 ), Gregor ( b. 1964 ) and Vanessa ( b. 1971 ).

In 1975, he was head of the house Bismarck and is involved since 1994 in the " Otto von Bismarck Foundation ". In this capacity he published, among other things, the book " Let Germany back in the saddle ". He remembers his great-grandfather, Otto von Bismarck, who had formulated in 1871: " Let's put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! Riding it is already able to. "

Policy

From active politics at the federal or state level, Ferdinand von Bismarck held aloof in contrast to his father, Otto and his son Carl- Eduard, but since the seventies member of the CDU and was for several years a local leader in Aumuehle. Bismarck is considered conservative and is patron of the Bismarck Bund eV.

In 2008, Ferdinand von Bismarck drew attention with a sent to a large number of private households newsletter on himself, in which he complained " of serious concern to Germany " that " Germany leftward drift " because the Left Party in elections in Bremen, Hesse, Lower Saxony and Hamburg could take each of the five-percent hurdle and to the Landtag.

Publications

  • Notes of a patriot. Langen Müller, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7844-2700-6
  • Let's put Germany back in the saddle. New comments of a patriot. Langen Müller, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7844-2959-9
  • Preface to Volker Ullrich: Bismarck. The Iron Chancellor. House, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-904950-84-4
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