Bismarck

Berlin Doughnut

Bismark is a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam sometimes referred to as a Berlin Doughnut.

Ships named Bismarck

German battleship Bismarck, German World War II battleship
SMS Bismarck (1877) German Kreuzerfregatten decommissioned in 1891
SS Bismarck (1914), German ocean liner, later RMS Majestic
SMS Fürst Bismarck (1896), German armored cruiser of World War One
SMS Fürst Bismarck (1915), German battlecruiser of the planned Mackensen class, canceled before completion
SS Fürst Bismarck (1890), German ocean liner
SS Fürst Bismarck (1905), German ocean liner

Bismark Bike

There was a manufacture of bicycles in the late 19th century named Bismark

German battleship Bismarck

By admin ~ November 11th, 2009. Filed under: Bismarck.

The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second World War. The lead ship of her class and named after the 19th century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck displaced more than 50,000 tonnes fully loaded and was the largest warship then commissioned.

Bismarck only took part in one operation during her brief career. She and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen left Gotenhafen (Gdynia) on the morning of 19 May, 1941 for Operation Rheinübung, during which she was to have attempted to intercept and destroy convoys in transit between North America and Great Britain.

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The wreck of Bismarck

By admin ~ November 11th, 2009. Filed under: Bismarck.

The wreck of Bismarck was discovered on 8 June 1989 by Dr. Robert Ballard, the oceanographer also responsible for finding the Titanic. Bismarck rests upright at a depth of approximately 4,791 m (15,700 ft), about 650 kilometres west of Brest, France. The Bismarck struck an extinct underwater volcano, which rose some 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above the surrounding abyssal plain, triggering a 2 kilometre (1.25 mile) landslide. Bismarck slid down the mountain, coming to a stop two-thirds down

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The Tirpitz

By admin ~ November 11th, 2009. Filed under: Bismarck class Battleship.

The Tirpitz was the second Bismarck class battleship of the German Kriegsmarine, sister ship of Bismarck, named after Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. She never fired against an enemy ship but spent most of World War II in various bases in German-occupied Norway, where her mere presence was a threat to the Allies, tying up significant naval forces

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The Iron Chancellor

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was a Prussian German statesman and aristocrat of the 19th century. As Ministerpräsident of Prussia from 1862–1890, he oversaw the unification of Germany. In 1867 he became Chancellor of the North German Confederation. When the German Empire was formed in 1871, he served as its first Chancellor until 1890 and practiced Realpolitik, which gained him the nickname "The Iron Chancellor". As Chancellor, Bismarck held an important role in the German government and greatly influenced German and international politics both during and after his time of service.

Famous Brand

Bismarck lends his name to countless schools and streets, numerous ships, a district of Gelsenkirchen, Germany, at least five towns in the USA and one in Canada, a sea, an archipelago, and a mountain range belonging to New Guinea, mountains in Zimbabwe and Namibia, the Antarctic Bismarck Strait, and, until World War I, a mountain and a town in Australia.
The name has been used for a locomotive, a bicycle factory, a coal mine, a brand of mineral water, an anime series, a satirical radio programme, and a brand of grain schnapps. You can eat Bismarck as a type of apple or a kind of pickled herring, or drink him as the German version of the Black Velvet cocktail, half stout, half champagne.