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Ferdinand von Bismarck

Prince Ferdinand
Prince of Bismarck
Tenure 24 December 1975 – present
Born (1930-11-22) 22 November 1930 (age 86)
London, United Kingdom
Spouse Countess Elisabeth Lippens
Issue Carl-Eduard von Bismarck
Gottfried von Bismarck
Gregor von Bismarck
Vanessa von Bismarck
Full name
Ferdinand Herbord Ivar Fürst von Bismarck
House House of Bismarck
Father Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck
Mother Ann-Mari Tengbom
Full name
Ferdinand Herbord Ivar Fürst von Bismarck
Styles of
The Prince of Bismarck
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Reference style His Serene Highness
Spoken style Your Serene Highness
Alternative style Sir

Ferdinand Herbord Ivar, Prince von Bismarck (German: Ferdinand Herbord Ivar Fürst von Bismarck; born November 22, 1930 in London) is a German landowner and lawyer and the Prince of Bismarck since 1975.

The son of politician and diplomat Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck and great-grandson of statesman Otto von Bismarck, the founder of modern Germany, he grew up in London, Rome and Sweden, and was educated at the Schule Schloss Salem boarding school. After a few years in Brazil in the early 1950s, where he worked for the German-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, he went on to study law, earning a law degree in 1956. He worked for the European Commission in Brussels for some years, and has since 1967 worked as an attorney in Hamburg, based from his home in Friedrichsruh. He has also managed his family's estate.

Bismarck married the Belgian countess Elisabeth Lippens in 1960. They have four children:

Bismarck had the nominal title of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen from his birth until the death of his father in 1975, when he succeeded to the title of Prince.

He became a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany when he was thirty years old and was chairman of the local party in Aumühle. He is a member of the board of the Otto von Bismarck Foundation and is patron of the Bismarckbund and the Bismarck Order, as well as chairman of the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation.


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