He wasn't. It was "Iron Chancellor", presumably for his forceful approach.
"Blood & iron" was an earlier passage in a speech declaring that Germany's fate (when it was still a jumble of states) would be resolved through nationality (blood) and might (iron).
Bismarck was the "Iron Chancellor" during World War I.
It means that they would use blood (hard work, the power of the people) and iron (technology, weapons, etc) to succeed and unify the German territories.
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Because they were rich with iron ore.
As coined in a speech March 5th 1946, by Winston Churchill the term for a symbolic boundary dividing Europe into communist & non communist spheres is "the iron curtain" the iron center
Iron Chancellor
Der Eisenkanzler (the iron Chancellor) was OTTO VON BISMARCK.
Bismarck's title in Germany was Chancellor (Reichskanzler).
The German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck is associated with the phrase Blood and Iron as it was the title of a speech he gave in 1862.
Otto von Bismarck was known as the Iron Chancellor .
Bismark- He planned to unite Germany not by speeches and votes, but by "blood and iron," meaning military power."Blood and Iron" was the political and economic policy of Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor in the mid/late 1800s.Otto Von BismarckB. Bismarck
The German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is associated with the phrase Blood and Iron as it was the title of a speech he gave in 1862.
Bismarck was the "Iron Chancellor" during World War I.
otto von Bismarck
The Iron Chancellor
Der Eisenkanzler (the iron Chancellor) was OTTO VON BISMARCK.
Otto von Bismarck