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Bülow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin Fürst von (b. 3 May 1849, d. 28 Oct. 1929). Chancellor of Germany and Minister President of Prussia 1900–9 Born near Hamburg, he entered the diplomatic service in 1874, became an ambassador in Rome in 1894, and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in 1897. As Chancellor, he conducted an expansionist foreign policy, while at home he raised tariffs in 1902 to protect domestic agriculture and industry. He fell out with the increasingly dominant Centre Party over colonial policy in 1906. In an effort to free the government from the influence of the Centre, he created the ‘Bülow Bloc’ in 1907, allying all parties together excluding the SPD and Centre. However, the Bloc's members, some of which had opposed each other since the beginning of the Empire, proved too diverse to manage crucial policy matters such as constitutional and fiscal reform. Greatly weakened by the Daily Telegraph Affair, he was deprived of parliamentary support after the Bloc's collapse in 1909, leaving Emperor Wilhelm II free to dismiss Bülow in favour of Bethmann Hollweg.
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