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KARL MARTIN, PRINCE VON (1849), Ger. statesman, was b. at Klein Flottbeck, Holstein. In 1873 he entered the diplomatic service, and in 1878 was secretary of the Berlin Congre . He was succe ively first secretary of the emba y at Paris (1880) and at Petrograd (1883), minister at Bukharest (1888), and amba ador at Rome po when he was appointed ru ian minister of state, and was made count in 1899, after the acquisition of the Caroline and Marianne Islands.’ In the following year he became chancellor of the German Empire and prime minister of Pru ia, in succe ion to Prince Hohenlohe. He was supported in ] the Reichstag by the ‘bloc’—a combinai tion of Conservatives, National Liberals, \ ts:: 3 and Center. He resigned in 1909 in consequence of the rejection by the Reichstag of the Government Inheritance Tax Bill. In June 1905 he was raised to the rank of prince. After the outbreak of the World War he acted as the Ger. amba ador at Rome, but failed to prevent Italy’s intervention in the war (June 1915). He retired to Switzerland and was active in peace intrigues. He pub.: i Saban Germany, 1912; and Memoirs, COUNT VON Sonor i Ger. Se bro. of the field-marshal; lost opportunities by attacks on existing institutions: pub. Geist des neueren Krieg ystems, 1805; and followed it up with military works on same lines, from which Pru ia learnt much.