Portrait of Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, 1 April 1815 - 30 July 1898, known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century