Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck (25 September 1897-24 December 1975) was a German DNVP, NSDAP, and CDU politician and diplomat.
Biography[]
Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck was born in Schonhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, German Empire in 1897, a son of Herbert von Bismarck, a brother of Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, and a grandson of Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck served as a DNVP MP from 1924 to 1928 before joining the NSDAP and serving in the Reichstag from 1933 to 1945. During World War II, he leaked Nazi intelligence to the Italian government to enable the rescue of Balkan Jews from the Holocaust. After the war, the FDP offered Bismarck nomination for the Bundestag, but he chose to join the CDU instead, serving as an MP from 1953 to 1965 and from 1961 to 1966. He died in 1975.