The Bismarck was one of a pair of Bismarck classbattleships (the other was the Tirpitz) it was named after Otto von Bismarck the first Chancellor of Germany. It was simply called the Bismarck.
Otto von Bismark was a German aristocrat and politician. He became the Prime Minister of Prussia in 1862 and the First Chancellor of Germany in 1871. He had many famous quotes. Here are a few:
Politics is not an exact science... but an art.
Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided - that was the error of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood.
Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck died on 1975-12-24.
Otto von Bismarck's birth name is Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck.
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).