The Bismarck Cabinet was the first cabinet of the

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

, led by

Otto von Bismarck Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (, ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of J ...

from the

unification of Germany The unification of Germany (, ) was the process of building the modern German nation state with federalism, federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without multinational Austria), which commenced on 18 August 1866 with ad ...

in 1871 until 1890.

List of ministers

Sources

* ''Regenten und Regierungen der Welt,'' Vol. 2,3. ''Neueste Zeit: 1492–1917,'' ed. by B. Spuler; 2nd edition, Würzburg, Ploetz, 1962. {{German Cabinets Historic German cabinets Otto von Bismarck 1871 establishments in Germany 1890 disestablishments in Germany Cabinets established in 1871 Cabinets disestablished in 1890