A united Germany has required many different wars to be accomplished. The unification of Germany was associated with one man in particular: Otto Von Bismarck. He was a Russian Prime Minister and later the German Chancellor. He was a real politick which means he based his decisions on the realities of power rather than on moral or ideological considerations. He was often regarded as being amoral and cynical. His historical importance derives from his position in the government initially as Prussia’s political leader. German unification was based on the actions, thoughts, and decisions of many people, only one of whom was Bismarck. However he couldn’t have transformed Germany by himself.
Austria and Prussia were constantly fighting to gain full power of Germany as dual leadership didn’t work with them. After the war of Denmark in 1864, many might think that since Austria and Prussia united together against Denmark it would result in a good relationship between them. However after the final peace treaty for the war of Denmark was published, it included “Denmark transferring Schleswig- Holstein to the joint control of Austria and Prussia” tension formed between them which broke down to the Austro- Prussian war in 1866. Bismarck’s goal to this war was for Prussia to gain control of Schleswig- Holstein as he wanted Prussia to become the political leader of northern Germany either with Austrian consent or without. This was a short dramatic war. It resulted in Austria loosing all of its power in Germany by the treaty of Prague in August 1866 and concentrated thereafter on maintaining its multinational empire in south Eastern Europe. It was obviously a Prussian defeat. The treaty of Prague was rather too generous as King William I said but in Bismarck’s point of view, he believed he might need the support of both Austria and the liberals, before long. He didn’t want to antagonize Austria and thereby drive it into alliance with the other great Powers which had been...