Who played the leading role in the unification of Germany?
Answer:
Otto Von Bismarck played a leading role in the unification of Germany. Otto von Bismarck was the architect of unification. He carried out this process with the help of bureaucracy and the Prussian Army. Otto von Bismarck was the chief minister of Prussia.
To proclaim the new German Empire headed by Kaiser William I of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck gathered in the unheated Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.
Among the middle-class Germans, the nationalist feelings were widespread. In 1848, they tried to unite the different regions of the German confederation into a nation-state governed by an elected parliament, however, they were repressed by the combined forces of the large landowners (called Junkers) of Prussia, the military, and the monarchy. Later on, the leadership of the movement for national unification was taken by Prussia.