Apr 14, 2016 at 8:12 AM. 1  Atmasphere, a brand new yoga and fitness lifestyle concept launching in Atlanta, will open the doors to its first-ever studio in the Buckhead community on Friday, April 15! Located at 3097 Piedmont Road N.E. in a two-story, 10,000 square-foot...
Otto von Bismarck. Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Germany, created the modern welfare state by building on a tradition of welfare programs in Prussia and Saxony that began as early as in the 1840s, and by winning the support of business.
Otto von Bismarck: Kulturkampf, Welfare State, Empire With Germany unified, William I and Bismarck turned to entrenching their domestic power. For much of the 1870s Bismarck pursued a Kulturkampf (cultural struggle) against Catholics, who made up 36 percent of Germanyâs population, by placing parochial schools under state control and expelling the Jesuits.