them became friends with the later German Chancellor OttovonBismarck there in 1832. Both Bismarck and King joined Corps Hannovera Göttingen—a German Student
statesman. As Minister of War from 1859 to 1873, Roon, along with OttovonBismarck and Helmuth von Moltke, was a dominating figure in Prussia's government during
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