The chancellor’s great-grandson was asked to resign
The Bilt tabloid refers to Prinz Carl Eduard von Bismarck, Otto von Bismarck's great-grandson, as the laziest member of parliament in German history in 2007. He has struggled with addiction, and the German media has made fun of his drunken antics. It was said that he didn't show up for any meetings in his area and only half of all legislative sessions. He left the Conservative Christian Party at the request of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in December 2007, one month before he would have been entitled to a pension.
The ex-wife of the heir to a prominent aristocratic family in Europe even filed a lawsuit against him on the grounds that he owes her $2.5 million in back child support payments. Since their divorce in 2011, Count Carl-Eduard von Bismarck was alleged not to have given German Countess Nathalie von Bismarck her monthly payment of $50,000.
Carl Eduard's bad behaviors are reported to have greatly angered the Bismarcks and damaged their status as a noble family. Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, the great-grandson of the Iron Chancellor, reportedly prefers Carl-younger Eduard's brother, Gregor, to his oldest son as his successor.
