Editing Otto von Bismarck (section)

===Memorials===
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Immediately after he left office, citizens started to praise him and established funds to build monuments like the [[Bismarck Memorial (Berlin)|Bismarck Memorial]] or [[Bismarck tower|towers]] dedicated to him. Throughout Germany, the accolades were unending; several buildings were named in his honour, portraits of him were commissioned from artists such as [[Franz von Lenbach]] and [[Christian Wilhelm Allers|C.W. Allers]] and books about him became best-sellers.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} The first monument built in his honour was the [[Bismarck Monument (Bad Kissingen)|one at Bad Kissingen]] erected in 1877.

Numerous statues and memorials dot the cities, towns, and countryside of Germany, including the famous Bismarck Memorial in Berlin and numerous Bismarck towers on four continents. The only memorial depicting him as a student at [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen University]] (together with a dog, possibly his ''[[Reichshund]]'' Tyras) and as a member of his [[Corps Hannovera Göttingen|Corps Hannovera]] was re-erected in 2006 at the [[Rudelsburg]].<ref>Sergiusz Michalski, ''Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage 1870-1997'' (London: Reaktion, 2013), 65-68. {{ISBN|978-1-78023-235-5}} books.google.com/books?id=FVrqAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA65</ref>

The gleaming white 1906 [[Bismarck Monument (Hamburg)|Bismarck Monument]] in the city of [[Hamburg]], stands in the centre of the [[St. Pauli]] district, and is the largest, and probably best-known, memorial to Bismarck worldwide. The statues depicted him as massive, monolithic, rigid and unambiguous.<ref>Sieglinde Seele, ''Lexikon der Bismarck-Denkmäler. Türme, Standbilder, Büsten, Gedenksteine und andere Ehrungen,'' [[Michael Imhof Verlag]]: Petersberg, 2005; 480 pp.</ref> Two warships were named in his honour, the {{SMS|Bismarck||6}} of the [[Kaiserliche Marine|German Imperial Navy]], and the {{ship|German battleship|Bismarck||2}} from the World War II era.