Ferdinand Herbord Ivar, Prince von Bismarck is a German landowner and lawyer and the Prince of Bismarck since 1975.
Background
The son of politician and diplomat Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck and great-grandson of statesman Otto von Bismarck, the founder of modern Germany, he grew up in London, Rome and Sweden, and was educated at the Schule Schloss Salem boarding school.
Career
After a few years in Brazil in the early 1950s, where he worked for the German-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, he went on to study law, earning a law degree in 1956. He worked for the European Commission in Brussels for some years, and has since 1967 worked as an attorney in Hamburg, based from his home in Friedrichsruh. He has also managed his family"s estate.
Membership
Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, was briefly a Member of the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament;
He became a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany when he was thirty years old and was chairman of the local party in Aumühle. He is a member of the board of the Otto von Bismarck Foundation and is patron of the Bismarckbund and the Bismarck Order, as well as chairman of the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation.