Bernhard Heinrich Martin Bülow, Fürst von , 1849-1929, German chancellor. He held many diplomatic posts before he became, through the influence of Friedrich von Holstein , foreign secretary in 1897 and succeeded Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst as chancellor in 1900. He inadvertently increased German isolation by his failure to gain the friendship of England and by his aggressive foreign policy. He antagonized France by his actions in the Moroccan crisis of 1905 (see Morocco ). Bülow later alienated Russia in the Bosnian crisis of 1908 by thwarting Russian goals for the opening...
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