A Bismarck taking the seat for Schleswig-Holstein? Many a history buff will find that ironic.
It is ironic.
And many of the admirers of the old "Iron Chancellor" met their end at the gallows in WW2. Not at Nuremberg, but rather at the hands of their countrymen as being involved in the Stauffenberg plot to assasinate Hitler.
I assume the family had to leave their Prussian estates when the Soviets came in 1945. It's ironic that the great grandson is representing Schleswig-Holstein. In a way, that is fitting, because without Otto von Bismarck Schleswig-Holstein wouldn't be a part of Germany.