Carl-Eduard von Bismarck | |
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Count Carl Eduard von Bismarck-Schoenhausen and wife Countess Alessandra von Bismarck-Schoenhausen
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Born |
Carl-Eduard Otto Wolfgang Jayme Anders Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen February 16, 1961 Zurich, Switzerland |
Nationality | Germany |
Spouse(s) |
Laura Harring (1987-1989) Celia Demaurex (1997-2004) Nathalie Bariman (2004-2014) Alessandra Silvestri-Lévy (2016-) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) |
Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck Countess Elisabeth Lippens |
Carl-Eduard Otto Wolfgang Jayme Anders Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (born February 16, 1961 in Zurich) is a German politician (CDU).
Bismarck is the eldest grandson of the CDU politician Otto Christian Archibald, Prince von Bismarck, the great-grandson of Herbert, Prince von Bismarck and the great-great-grandson of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
Between 1989 and 1992, he worked for the company Investor Treuhand in Düsseldorf. Since 1993 he has worked for the Princely Bismarck Administration (Fürstlich von Bismarck'schen Verwaltung) in Friedrichsruh.
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.
He resigned his mandate on December 19, 2007. If he had resigned in January, as planned, he would have been eligible for a pension, inciting more criticism.