... could trace back his family roots nearly five centuries. Bismarck's mother was of middle class descent, which her ancestors were of either civil servant s or academicians. Before this time marriage of high and middle classes were unheard of. But during this period, these types of marriages became ... 1851, Bismarck was appointed as a Prussian delegate to the Diet of German Confederation at Frankfurt. Giving him insight into German and European politics, (14) Bismarck worked with delegates of the forty-seven states of the German Confederations. Bismarck soon discovered that Prussian and A...

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