Records Bismarck’s visit to wounded Kaiser 367
On Bismarck’s health (6 April 1880) 403
On the Bismarck family 70, 408, 450
Sister of Axel von Varnbüler 426,
Reflects on Bismarck’s fall 450, 451
No longer welcome in Bismarck home after Johanna’s death 70, 459
Bismarck funeral as revenge on Kaiser 463–4,
Struggle with William and Augusta 36
Contrasts in Bismarck’s character 465–6, 471
Johanna as vindictive 469
As lady in society counts number of invitations 69–70
Why Bismarck flirts 68–9
Describes victory parade and tableau (1871) 184, 310–11
Sees Johanna’s card file of ‘enemies’ 344
On Bismarck’s superstitions 348
Bismarck’s 1877 resignation a blow to social standing of 357–8
Stahl, Friedrich Julius (1802–61), born Julius Jolson
Converted to Lutheranism, becomes brain of extreme conservatives in House of Lord 81
Kleist to Gerlach that he was the House of Lords 81
Gerlach has reservations about his ‘vulgar constitutionalism 81–2
Nominated to House of Lords with other academic figures 100
Founder with Bismarck, Bethman Hollweg, Wagener in 1849 of Union for King and Fatherland 101
Andrae-Roman recalls Bismarck’s ‘he is after all only a Jew’ 324–5
31 October 1872: local reorganisation bill rejected by ‘Stahl Caucus’ (Pflanze) 340
Steinmetz, Karl Friedrich von (1796–1877), Prussian Field Marshall
Has row with Roon over army reforms 157
Given command of First Army in 1870 290
Disobeys Moltke’s orders and attacks Spichern 291
Waldersee thinks he is too old and ‘mad’ 291
Stosch, Albrecht von (1818–96), Prussian General, first head of the German Admiralty
‘Enchanted’ by Bismarck’s talk, ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘humiliated’ by his treatment 5–6, 253, 387, 466
Most gifted pupil of General von Brandt 157
Brandt writes to on poor prospects (1859) for army reform 157
Institutes the tri-partite division of command in new Imperial Navy 163
To Holtzendorff on prospects if William I abdicates (1862) 180
To von Normann how Foreign Ministry in ‘holy awe’of Bismarck 189
Puzzled by appointment of Manteuffel to Governor of Schleswig 234
Records conversation between Bismarck and Crown Prince (1864) on war 235
‘Bismarck’s ruthlessnes makes him many enemies among the aristcracy’ 235
Regrets Roggenbach’s sudden resignation as prime minister in Baden 239
Attends War Council of 26 May 1866 244
Tells wife that Bismarck’s enemies grow more numerous every day 245
Praises Moltke and the excellent work of General Staff in 1866 251
1866: First Quarter-Master General of Second Army 253
Bismarck explains reasons for soft peace with Austria to 254
How Bismarck insists on doing everything himself in peace negotiations 269–70
Furious confrontation with Bismarck (1873) as head of navy right to counter-sign decrees 271–2
To Freytag (1867): ‘The more Bismarck grows in stature the more uncomfortable for him are people who think and act for themselves’ 272
Urges Freytag (1875) to publish articles on need for Reich Cabinet 275
Reveals inside story of resignation crisis in 1869 279–80
Bismarck indispensable to completion of unification 279
Like Waldersee fiercely ambitious and active intriguer 282
Waldersee accuses of siding with Queen and Crown Prince in opposition to bombardment of Paris 298
Writes that the King fears Bismarck’s rage 301
Bombardment no effect on disunity among leaders 302
Bismarck accuses of misappropriation of public funds 308
Roggenbach describes Bismarck’s rule as ‘a specialization in dishonourable humiliation’ 336
Bismarck in a rage (1876) that Stosch refuses to send ships to Turkish waters 353
Visitor returned from Varzin (1877) tells Stosch that Chancellor ‘already crazy or soon would be’ 362
Crown Prince writes that under Bismarck ‘every capable person is subordinated’ 429
Stosch to von Normann: ‘Crown Prince … a poor weak soul’ 429
Bismarck jealous of outside influence on young Prince Wilhelm 431
Hohenlohe records how ‘chirpy’ after the fall of Bismarck 451
Caprivi appointed to Admiralty after Bismarck fires him 453
Roggenbach writes Hohenlohe as Bavarian and Catholic cannot make people ‘fear’ him 459
Sybel, Heinrich Karl Ludolf von (1817–95), German historian
Startled by the size of Bismarck’s bed-pans and observes even his ‘s---’ is great 10
Makes fun of in the Landtag for talking about the Alvensleben mission 193
Sybel reading about Diocletian when Bismarck appears to roars of laughter 348
Thadden-Trieglaff, Adolf von (1796–1882), ‘born again’ Junker great landowner
Associated with other Pommeranian estate owners 53
Member of the Mai-Käfer (May Bugs) Christian club 57
A member of the group that helps Bismarck begin his career 58
Perthes notes that Johanna’s family related 173
One of Deklaranten (1876) but signs ‘with pain’ 344
Tiedemann, Christoph Willers Markus Heinrich von (1836–1907), Bismarck’s personal assistant
Cannot explain (1875) why Bismarck has chosen him 344
First interview with Bismarck 344–5
Appointment interview 346–7
22 January 1878: dinner menu the entire diary entry 345–6
Bismarck tells that ‘enemies grow more numerous’ 347
Describes toilet facilities at Bismarck’s house on first visit (1875) 10
Records five hour dictation sessions with Bismarck 11
Takes minutes at Crown Council (3 December 1876) on tariffs 349
Bismarck tells that he played cards with Austrian delegate to scare him 128, 232
Meets Bennigsen (1878) about National Liberal membership of cabinet 359–60, 363
Famous passage when Bismarck learns (June 1878) that Kaiser wounded by assasain 367
Bismarck apparently ‘indifferent’ when anti-socialist bill defeated 366
Notes that Bismarck hides beer bottles on train to Friedrichsruh 376
Finds Bismarck (1880) ‘tongue lamed and appearance horribly altered’ 402
Bismarck’s rage about defeat on tax on postal transfers 403
‘Here we eat until the walls burst’ 404
Finds own position ‘intolerable’ and resigns to Bismarck’s fury 404–5
Lucius wonders why in ‘such a hurry’ to get away 410
Thadden-Trieglaff, Marie von (1822–46), daughter of Adolf
Meets and notes Bismarck’s emptiness 56
Bismarck falls in love with 58
Marries Moritz von Blankenburg (4 October 1844) 60
Plays Juliette with Bismarck as Romeo (July 1845) 62
Died, 10 November, 1846 64
Thile, Karl Hermann von (1812–89)
State Secretary in Foreign Ministry 270, 354
Thile, Ludwig Gustav (1781–1852), Prussian General
As president of the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, argues against Jewish rights 80
Thun und Hohenstein, Friedrich Franz Count von (1810–81), Austrian ambassador to the Bund 117
Bismarck asserts Prussian primacy in cigar-smoking at the meeting of the small council 119–20
Treitschke, Heinrich von (1834–96), historian and popular lecturer
After ‘Blood and Iron’ calls Bismarck ‘a shallow country squire’ 2
Bismarck hires in 186
6 to write pro-Prussian propaganda 246
Shocked that Bismarck has ‘of the moral powers in the world not the slightest notion’ 247
Complains to Overbeck that Jews control press 394
Attacks Jews in Our Views, an influential monthly, November 1879 394–5
Makes anti-semitism respectable 476
Bismarck uses him 479
Usedom, Karl Georg Ludwig Guido Count von (1805–84) Prussian diplomat 191, 278
Bismarck calls ‘cretin’ with ‘impossible wife’ (Lady Olivia Malcom) 146
Succeeds Bismarck as ambassador to the Bund 148
Bismarck submits resignation February 1869 because King protects 191
Stosch reports Bismarck’s fury because King refused to dismiss him 278
Bismarck villifies Usedom, long since dead, in his memoirs 453
Vane, William Harry (1766–1842), first duke of Cleveland, aristocrat
Bismarck falls in and out of love with his step-daughter 48–9
Calculation of the income of the Duke in Prussian thaler 49
Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen, Axel Freiherr (1851–1937)
Letter to Kuno Moltke Kaiser as Liebchen 426–7
Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen, Friedrich Gottlob Karl Freiherr von (1809–89), Prime minister of Württemberg, father of Hildegard von Spitzemberg and Axel 68
Verdy du Vernois, Adrian Friedrich Wilhelm Julius Ludwig von (1832–1910), one of the ‘demigods on Moltke’ staff and Prussian Minister of War
Contemplates two year service in 1890 to get army bill through Reichstag 445
Writes how staff (January 1871) ‘absolutely love and worship’ Moltke 137
Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa of Prussia and Great Britain (1840–1901), German Empress 7, 238, 279, 283, 298, 428
Marries Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, 25 January 1858 138
Countess Hohental describes her at 17 138
Queen Augusta disappointed by appointment of Bismarck, her ‘arch-enemy’ 179
Furious letter about press censorship (1863) to Queen Victoria 195
Duchess of Augustenburg a cousin of 214, 225
Defends Prussia (1870) against France an ‘enemy who wantonly insults us’ 289
Supports annexation of Alsace-Lorraine 313
Supports Battenberg marriage 419
Fights the German medical profession over Frederick’s treatment 429–30
Bismarck as brutal and cynical 430
Tells Queen Victoria (1871) that Augusta not informed about imperial title 308
Lady Ponsonby on Bismarck’s attempt to spy on 430–1
William’s rude behaviour to during father’s illness 438
As ‘strong’ woman who dominates her husband 35, 469
Bismarck stirs her hatred by control of William I 480
Vincke, Georg Freiherr von (1811–75)
Leader of Westphalian aristocratic liberals in United Diet (1847) 76
A duelling fraternity product who goads Bismarck to a duel 120
Villiers, George William Frederick (1800–1870), 4th Earl of Clarendon, politician, and foreign secretary
Appalled that Austria and Prussia should fight over so little 237
Warns British ambassador in Paris that Bismarck meddling in Spanish affairs 281
Happily powers unlikely to get seriously involved in Spain 283
Vogel von Falckenstein, Eduard Ernst Friedrich Hannibal (1797–1885)
Commands West army in 1866 and Moltke dissatisfied with performance of 250–1
Occupies Frankfurt/Main (1866) and seizes city’s treasury 256
Wagener, Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann (1815–89), jurist and first editor of the Kreuzzeitung 94, 95, 105, 116, 147
Referendar in Frankfurt an der Oder and comes into the Gerlach circle 59
First editor of the Kreuzzeitung, Bismarck writes for it and suggests changes 93
Founder member of the Union for King and Fatherland (1848) an electoral committee 101
As member of Bismarck’s staff in 1870 near Bucher for whom issued arrest warrant in 1848 207
Bismarck blames for the leaked Speech from the Throne (1866) with indemnity passage 260–1
Lasker exposes his ‘insider trading’ in railroad shares and has to resign 399
Wagner, Richard (1813–83), German Opera Composer
Publishes (1850) anonymously anti-semitic pamphlet Das Judenthum in der Musik: the Jew corrupts art by money and must always be alien 388–90
Waldersee, Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig Count von (1832–1904), Chief of General Staff and diarist 138, 423, 431, 435, 440
Background and career, appointed attaché in Paris 282
Records events in Paris on eve of war in 1870 284–8
As adjutant to King at army HQ in 1870–1, diary entries 291–2, 294, 296–8, 301–2
Makes himself part of the group of ‘demi-gods’ to hear the latest, 294
Visits Bismarck (1871) and find him ‘really miserable 302
As paranoid anti-semite with fears of conspiracies of ‘world Jewry’ 395, 432–4, 476
As successor to Moltke 425, 428
As camarilla member to influence Prince William 425, 428, 433
On Bismarck’s ‘very bad character’ (1890) 467
‘Lying has become a habit with him [Bismarck]’ 470
Weber, Friedrich Wilhelm (1813–94), Catholic politician 303
Weber, Maximilian Carl Emil (1864–1920), German sociologist
Establishes the three ‘legitimations of rule’ in 1918, invents modern ‘charisma’ 2
Suggests that the modern industrial society ruled by reactionary Junkers unstable 475
Writes (1918) Bismarck ‘left a nation totally without political education … totally bereft of political will’ 479
Werther, Karl Freiherr von (1808–92), the Prussian Ambassador in Paris,
Reports to King on excited, bellicose mood in Paris (July 1870) 284–5
Refuses to allow war to break out without trying to stop it 287–8
William I (1797–1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia 6, 35, 168, 236, 330, 341, 376, 396, 425, 435
His longevity and its importance 6, 14, 381, 472
Calls Bismarck a ‘hypochondriac’ 277–8, 470
As soldier and committed to a royal army 159, 160, 167, 186
Wants to attend Congress of Princes (1863) 196–8
Work ethic and preparation for meetings 15, 349
Love for Bismarck 140, 197
And Spanish candidature 281–3
Confrontation with French ambassador (1870) 288
Transfers command of the army to Moltke 245
Imperial title controversy (1870) 304–6
As temperamentally pro-Russian 354, 386, 436
Eulenburg sees his court entourage as ‘walking corpses’ (1885) 419
Made Bismarck’s career possible 7, 432
Bismarck’s chosen epitaph: ‘a loyal German servant of’ 463, 480
As convinced protectionist 349
William II (1859–1941), German Emperor
Court Preacher Adolf Stoecker attracts with his anti-semitic sermons 395
Centre of a camarilla intent on freeing crown from Bismarck’s control 425
Phili Eulenburg ‘falls in love’ with 425–6
‘Liebenberg Circle’ call him Liebchen (Darling) 426
Rathenau sees a tender young prince in 426
Waldersee claims Bismarck ‘jealous’ of those who want to separate Herbert from 431
Reassures Waldersee that his place assured in the new reign 433–4
‘Could not bear Jews’ 439, 447
And victim of ‘world Jewry’ and its press 434
His biography and his crippled arm as factor 437
The 1889 miners’ strike leads to clash with Bismarck 440ff
24 January 1890: clash between Bismarck over policy 442–3
Bismarck has violent clash with and is asked for his resignation 446–8
Bismarck plans revenge and gets Hamburger Nachrichten, as newspaper 452
Bismarck furious that he was ‘sent packing’ and wants no relations with 454–5
Bismarck claims that he imagines himself as Frederick the Great 455
Orders all German embassies to ignore Bismarck, asks Franz Joseph to do so too 455–6
Thaw in relationship with Bismarck, 1894 on 457–60
Tries to divide Reich and Prussian governments and fails 457–8
Eulenburg explains Bismarck’s reasons for revealing Reinsurance Treaty 461–2
Bismarck thwarts attempt to make national event of his funeral 462–3
Windthorst, Ludwig, Leader of Centre Party (1812–91) 319, 411
Margaret Lavinia Anderson’s biography of 9
Bismarck hates as enemy 206
Debut in Prussian politics and description of 272–3
Reichensperger describes as ‘a parliamentary miracle’ 273
The Meppen party of one 273–4
Enters politics to defend Holy Father 274
As founder member of the Centre Party 303
The opposite of Bismarck in appearance but defeats him in debate 322–4
9 May 1873: announces ‘passive resistance against the May Laws 334
Lady Emily Russell describes Bismarck’s fury against 336
Death of Pius IX opportunity to get rid of 364
Attacks Bismarck for confusing police state with conservatism 375
Parries Bismarck’s attempt to drive wedge between Centre and Holy See 375–6
Introduces bill to restore civil rights in constitution and allow religious order to remain 377
Bismarck forced to make truce with 380
Windthorst meets Nuncio April 1879 in Vienna, despair over Bismarck 381
3 May 1879: Windthorst invited to Bismarck’s ‘beer evening’, ‘extra Centrum nulla salus’ 381
Supports tariffs but not ‘duped’ 383
Condemns anti-semitism 396
Reichensperger condemns as ‘friendly to the Jews’ 397
Surpasses Lasker as parliamentarian 399
‘The full bucket of his [Bismarck’s] fury is pouring over me’ 412
Boycots dedication of restored Cologne Cathedral 413
‘Pope against Windthorst!’ speech (4 February 1887) 421–2
Windthorst sees Bleichröder (10 March 1890) and then Bismarck 445–6
Kaiser William II furious that Bismarck received Windthorst 447
Windthorst votes for army bill and supports Caprivi 454
Bismarck: A Life Page 78