He created the first welfare state in the world
Although he was a conservative, Otton von Bismarck was above all a strategist. It is Otto von Bismarck who introduced national health care, old-age pensions, and accident insurance to gain the working classes' support away from the Socialists. Otto von Bismarck designed the old-age social insurance program, making Germany the first country in the world to do so - an interesting fact about Otto von Bismarck.
The first modern welfare state in Europe was established by Bismarck in the 1880s by introducing national healthcare (1883), accident insurance (1884), and old-age pensions in order to combat the socialists (1889). The German Chancellor was determined to implement social insurance in Germany with the aim of promoting the well-being of workers in order to keep the German economy operating at maximum efficiency and prevent more radical socialist alternatives. This provided the German people with a complete system of income security based on social insurance principles, along with the workers' compensation program established in 1884 and the sickness insurance passed the year before.
He also organized the Berlin Conference of 1885, which ended the "Scramble for Africa," divided the continent among the European powers, and established German colonies in Cameroon, Togoland, and East and Southwest Africa.
