Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck
Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck Prince ( born September 25, 1897 in Schönhausen, † December 24, 1975 in Friedrichsruh ) was a German politician ( DNVP, NSDAP, later CDU) and diplomat.
Life and career
Bismarck was the son of Herbert Fürst von Bismarck and grandson of former Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. After graduation in 1915, he studied law in Berlin and Kiel, where he also completed his internship. His education was interrupted by his military service 1917/18. He was from 1921 to 1923 " Erbhofbauer " in Friedrichsruh, also owner of Schönhausen. In 1927, he joined the Foreign Service. The uses in Stockholm ( until 1928 ) and London followed the activity as a conductor of the Political Department at the Foreign Office from 1937 to 1940 in 1935., He was a member of the Organisation Anglo - German Fellowship. As an ambassador at the German Embassy at the Quirinal in Rome he worked until August 1943. From November 1943 to November 1944 von Bismarck head of the Italy - Committee at the Foreign Office. After that, he managed the family property Friedrichsruh again.
Political commitment
In the Weimar Republic was one of Bismarck from 1919 to 1931, the DNVP. From 1924 to 1928 he was member of the Reichstag. Already at the turn of 1932/33, he counted himself from an appeal of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor apparently greater benefits for personal career out of. In May 1933 he joined the Nazi Party. In 1952, he led with Friedrich Middelhauve talks on accession to the FDP, where he is also a parliamentary candidacy was promised. Eventually, however, he decided to membership of the CDU. From 1953 to 1965 he worked as a directly elected representative of the constituency of Lauenburg Member of the German Bundestag and was there at the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Committee on total German and Berlin questions and the Committee on Atomic Questions. Bismarck was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council, the Vice President, he was from 1959 to 1960 and from 1961 to 1966. From 1957 to 1961 he was also chairman of the German Parliamentary Society. In 1965 he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit.
On the Good Bismarck in Saxony Forest of Nazi war criminal Richard Baer was arrested after 15 years of residence in 1960. The employer was to no explanation.
Family
Bismarck married on 18 April 1928 in Berlin from Sweden Ann -Mari Tengbom (* 1907 in Stockholm, † 1999 in Marbella). From this marriage six children, including the current head of the royal house Bismarck, Ferdinand, as well as known from the jet-set scene Gunilla come. Bismarck's grandson Carl- Eduard von Bismarck was from 2005 to 2007 also a member of parliament.
Bismarck's heirs had to get compensation for expropriated in the course of the land reform manor Schönhausen still arguing in court. The Administrative Court of Magdeburg initially confirmed the rejection because Bismarck had Nazism made as deputy to the German ambassador in Rome from 1940 considerably feed. This decision overturned the Federal Administrative Court and pointed out that Bismarck Italy have warned of the German intentions regarding extradited Croatian Jews, and so contributed to their failure to deliver, and that Bismarck's conduct during the period of Nazi accession to retirement from active diplomatic service end of 1944 in need of an overall evaluation. End of March 2011 it undertook the Administrative Court of Magdeburg, the authority to grant compensation because Bismarck more than " fellow-travelers " in the Nazi era were not responsible. This is disputed, however, as early as 1942 Bismarck apparently knew about the extermination of the Jews, yet his office not put down, in the exercise of which he had also demand the extradition of Jewish refugees to Germany.