MASTER PLANNER: BISMARCK

Bismark: the master planner

Bismarck claimed just after the unification of Germany was complete that he had planned unity right from the beginning in just 5 stages:

1. Gain Russian neutrality:

• Bismarck made the decision to meet with Tsar Alexander II
• he offered military assistance
• he also denied that the whole meeting ever happened

2. Trick Austria into declaring war:

• he created tension in Holstein (which was given to Austria but was by Prussia)
• he made plans to make ammendments to the German constitution which would clearly upset Austria
• he also thought to create the Bad-Gastein agreement in August 1865
• Bismarck mobilised the Prussian troops thinking that would…