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Facts

Born June 21, 1818 • Coburg • Germany
Died August 22, 1893 (aged 75) • Thuringia • Germany

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Ernest II, detail from a lithograph by C. Baugniet after a portrait by H. Thorburn, 1844
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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
Friedrich Ebert, c. 1924.
Friedrich Ebert
president of Weimar Republic
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in military uniform, wearing a fur hat with a prominent skull emblem and various medals and decorations on his chest.
Wilhelm II
emperor of Germany
Bebel, August
August Bebel
German socialist
Portrait of Alfred von Tirpitz, German statesman and Commander of the German Navy, seated at a desk with a long beard and formal suit, circa 1925.
Alfred von Tirpitz
German statesman
Bernhard, Fürst von Bülow
Bernhard, prince von Bülow
chancellor of Germany
Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst
Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
German chancellor
Georg Michaelis
Georg Michaelis
chancellor of Germany
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Ernest I
duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Georg, count von Hertling, 1918
Georg, count von Hertling
German statesman
Philipp Scheidemann
Philipp Scheidemann
German politician
Eduard Lasker, engraving, 1861
Eduard Lasker
Prussian politician
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Richard von Kühlmann
German foreign minister
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
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Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
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Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
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Bernard II
German duke
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August Boeckh
German scholar
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Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
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Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]