Full Name: Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg); Profession: Prussian statesman, Minister-President of Prussia, founding Chancellor of the German Empire and key architect of German unification; Nationality: Prussian-born German; Born: April 1, 1815; Birthplace: Schönhausen, Altmark, Kingdom of Prussia (now Schönhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany); Generation: Transcendental Generation (Strauss–Howe, births 1792–1821); Chinese Zodiac: Wood Pig (Year of the Pig, 1815); Zodiac Sign: Aries; Age in 2026: 211 (if still living); Marital Status: Married (to Johanna von Puttkamer from 1847 until her death in 1894; widower at his own death); Children: 3 (Marie, Herbert, and Wilhelm von Bismarck); Description: Otto von Bismarck, often called the “Iron Chancellor,” was the dominant Prussian and later German statesman of the nineteenth century, whose Realpolitik and carefully engineered wars against Denmark, Austria, and France enabled him to unify dozens of independent German states into a single German Empire under Prussian leadership in 1871; as founding chancellor he built a powerful, conservative national state while balancing rivalries among Europe’s great powers, introduced pioneering social insurance legislation to undercut socialism, and left a legacy as one of modern history’s most influential practitioners of power politics; Cause of death: died at his estate in Friedrichsruh on July 30, 1898, from complications of old-age illness including gangrene, aged 83.