It's famous because British writer Cecil S. Forester wrote a book about it in 1959, and the British made a film about it called "Sink the Bismarck" in 1960.
Otherwise, it sank itself on it's maiden voyage rather than letting the British navy take credit for sinking it. German sailors (there were hundreds of survivors) had been stating for years that THEY scuttled the Bismarck, and the Royal Navy didn't sink it.
Dr. Ballard dove on the vessel in the 1980's and proved that the German's were correct! They sunk their own ship!
See: Kaiser Bismarck
1890
Bismarck's primary goal after 1871 was to keep peace in Europe. Another one of his goals was to keep France from becoming too powerful. Otto von Bismarck served as the 1st Chancellor of Germany.
Hood (battlecruiser)
Danish War
Bismarck, North Dakota was named for Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
Hood (battlecruiser)
There is no known type of plane known as "Bismarck". There were many ships including the famous WWII battleship.
Sinking their BattleCRUISER Hood.
Bismarck
Otto Van Bismarck
Uniting Germany and setting up treaties and alliances for world war one
Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898) is famous because as Prussia's 'Iron' Chancellor (1862-1890), through a series of wars he united the various German states of the mid 19th century into a single unified German Empire. He made Germany a single nation for the first time in its history. That is why he's famous.
He was a powerful Prussian political leader who became Germany's first chancellor after unification in 1871.
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.
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck used this phrase (in German: Blut und Eisen) in a speech given in 1862 about the unification of the German territories. It is also a famous transposed phrase that Bismarck uttered near the end of the speech that has become one of his most famous quotations.
Yes, for Unifying Germany and making it such a global military, political and economic powerhouse pre-WW1.