Otto Bismarck
1815 – 1898
German

Creator and chancellor of the German Empire. He espoused a "real-politic" which put national self-interest over principle.

Contemporaries
1864–1920Max Weber
1875–1965Albert Schweitzer
1788–1860Arthur Schopenhauer
1768–1834Friedrich Schleiermacher
1874–1928Max Scheler
1775–1854Friedrich von Schelling
1898–1979Herbert Marcuse
1885–1952Karen Horney
1770–1831Georg Hegel
1749–1832Johann Goethe
1804–1872Ludwig Feuerbach
1820–1895Friedrich Engels
1874–1945Ernst Cassirer
1884–1976Rudolf Bultmann
1898–1956Bertolt Brecht