German and Prussian politician (1849–1929)
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The German chancellor who spent nine years trying to turn his country into a global power and succeeded mainly in making enemies. His bellicose Weltpolitik picked fights over Morocco, strengthened the alliance against Germany, and laid track straight toward 1914.
Bernhard von Bülow was born in 1849 into Danish-German aristocracy and followed his father into diplomacy after the elder Bülow became foreign secretary under Bismarck. He climbed through posts including ambassador to Rome before Wilhelm II made him foreign secretary in 1897, then chancellor in 1900. For nine years he oversaw economic growth and scientific progress at home while pushing an expansionist foreign policy that repeatedly misfired: his challenge to France in Morocco sparked the First Moroccan Crisis and tightened the Entente Cordiale instead of breaking it. In 1908 the Daily Telegra…
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[It was] through the ineptitude and stupidity of Bethmann and Jagow [that Germany had] blundered into war [in den Krieg taumelten].
We ourselves brought about [this war] through the ultimatum to Serbia (which we either permitted or inspired).
You have given [the Austrians] carte blanche – do you realize what you have done?
The Auswärtiges Amt of 1914 was the incubator in which the monstrous egg of the ultimatum to Serbia was hatched.
What does their hate matter to us? ... Oderint dum metuant! Let them hate us, but let them fear us!
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