Carl von Bismarck

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Von Bismarck in 2017
Prince of Bismarck
Tenure23 July 2019 – present
Predecessor Ferdinand von Bismarck
BornCarl-Eduard Otto Wolfgang Jayme Anders Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen
16 February 1961
Zurich, Switzerland
Spouse
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(m. 1987;div. 1989)​
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(m. 1997;div. 2004)​
Nathalie Bariman
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(m. 2004;div. 2014)​
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(m. 2016)​
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Issue Count Alexei von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Countess Grace von Bismarck-Schönhausen
House Bismarck
Father Ferdinand, Prince von Bismarck
MotherCountess Elisabeth Lippens

Carl-Eduard, Prince of Bismarck (Carl-Eduard Otto Wolfgang Jayme Anders; born 16 February 1961), [4] often known as Carl von Bismarck, is a German politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union, he sat in the Bundestag from 2005 to 2007.

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Background and education

Born on 16 February 1961 in Zürich, Switzerland, as Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Carl von Bismarck is a member of the princely House of Bismarck and the son of the lawyer and landowner Ferdinand von Bismarck and the Belgian countess Elisabeth Lippens.[ citation needed ] He is the great-great-grandson of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.[ citation needed ]

After receiving his Abitur in 1982, von Bismarck completed his two years of military service at the Bismarck-Kaserne  [ de ] in Wentorf, West Germany. [5]

In 1985, von Bismarck concluded his training in capital markets investing at Citibank and worked for Shearson Lehman in New York.[ citation needed ] In 1988 he received his bachelor's degree in international business from UCLA.

Career

Business

In 1989, von Bismarck was requested by his father to return to West Germany.[ citation needed ] Between 1989 and 1992, he worked for the company Investor Treuhand in Düsseldorf. Since 1993 he worked for the Princely Bismarck Administration (Fürstlich von Bismarck'schen Verwaltung) in Friedrichsruh. [6]

Politics

Bismarck became a member of the CDU in 1995, and was elected vice-chairman of the CDU in Lauenburg in 1999 (his ancestor, Otto von Bismarck, had been the nominal Duke of Lauenburg in the 1890s). When Peter Harry Carstensen became Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Bismarck replaced him in the Bundestag, the German parliament. In the 2005 federal election, he won his constituency with a plurality (44.4%) of the vote. Criticism arose, however, because after initial efforts he was only loosely exercising his mandate and rarely appeared in parliament. He resigned his mandate on 19 December 2007. [7] If he had resigned in January, as planned, he would have been eligible for a pension, inciting more criticism. [5] [7]

Personal life

Von Bismarck was previously married to Mexican-American actress Laura Harring (1987–1989), Swiss heiress and humanitarian Celia Demaurex (1997–2004), and Canadian designer Nathalie Bariman (2004–2014). [8] He then married Italo-Brazilian art writer and curator Alessandra Silvestri-Levy in 2016. [9]

Von Bismarck has two children with Nathalie Bariman, i.e. a son and heir apparent to the princely title, Count Alexei von Bismarck-Schönhausen, and a daughter, Countess Grace von Bismarck-Schönhausen. Bariman is Jewish, and they married in a Jewish ceremony. [8] [10] [11] German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reported to have told the couple, "You two have united history... the next Prince of Bismarck will be a mix of both religions." [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "New York Post: German nobleman sued in NY court for $2.5M in unpaid child support". 16 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Pancevski, Bojan (2013-12-13). "Bad blood sinks the Bismarcks". The Sunday Times . Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  3. ↑ "Heimliche Hochzeit" [Secret marriage] (in German). Gala. June 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Deutscher Bundestag, Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, CDU/CSU (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Bismarck, Carl-Eduard von". webarchiv.bundestag.de. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  6. ↑ "Bismarck, Carl-Eduard von".
  7. 1 2 "Bismarck geht von Bord - CDU erleichtert". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  8. 1 2 3 "German aristocrat sued by Canadian-born wife for $3.4M in child support". nationalpost. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  9. ↑ "Heimliche Hochzeit". Gala (in German). 18 June 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  10. ↑ "Bismarck heir sued in New York for $2.5m in child support". The Telegraph. 16 February 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  11. ↑ Bismarck, Nathalie von (2011). Invisible. A & G. ISBN   9780615411941. Nathalie gave birth to 2 children, future heir Alexei von Bismarck and Countess Grace von Bismarck
German nobility
Preceded by Prince of Bismarck
2019 – present		Incumbent
Heir:
Alexei, Count of Bismarck
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