I'd never seen that he wanted to reestablish the monarchy - presumably the Kaiser Wilhelm line? Some of the leftovers from (Queen Victoria's) Prince Albert's li

I'd never seen that he wanted to reestablish the monarchy - presumably the Kaiser Wilhelm line? Some of the leftovers from (Queen Victoria's) Prince Albert's line? Interesting. Yeah, that's by-$DEITY about as conservative as it gets. I dunno then - what do you call post-Bismarck welfare-state Germany? It was certainly cradle-to-grave, something we now identify with socialism. And yes - Bismarck was generally considered a conservative as well. But the entire idea of Germany was basically... uh... racial. So it's a racial-ist socialism. Don't look at me like that, it's was their doing :) 19th century, phrenology, all that. The Wikipedia page refers to Bismarck as a "revolutionary conservative". Ooh, my head hurts now :)