The heirs of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s legendary “Iron Chancellor”, are embroiled in a bitter courtroom battle over a fortune as grand as their family name. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck ...

The ‘family war’ between Carl-Eduard von Bismarck and his siblings has been described as rife with ‘personal dramas, greed and jealousy at Dante’s level’. There's certainly a poetic irony: the ...