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Dreikaiserbund: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Three Emperors’ League • League of Three Emperors
Date 1873 - 1875 • June 18, 1881 - 1887
Participants Austria-Hungary • Germany • Russia
Context Reinsurance Treaty

Key People

Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Franz Joseph
Franz Joseph
emperor of Austria-Hungary
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Gorchakov
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich, Prince Gorchakov
Russian statesman