BULOW, bilge), Bernhard, PRINCE vox, German statesman: b. Klein-Flottbeck, Hol stein, 3 May 1849. He came of a distinguished family, and was, on the mother's side, of Danish ancestry. He was educated at Lausanne, Leip zig and Berlin, studied law and served in the Franco-German War, where he rose to the grade of lieutenant After being secretary of legation at Rome, Saint Petersburg and Vienna, he became charge d'affaires at Athens during the Russo-Turkish War, and later was secretary of the Berlin Congress. In 1888 he was appointed Minister to Rumania, and in 1893 Ambassador to Italy. He was called home to become Minister of Foreign Affairs. His skilful treatment of the Samoan difficulty won him popular favor in his own country. Dur ing the Chinese complications in 1900 he fully supported the Emperor's foreign policy. When Prince Hohenlohe resigned, 16 Oct. 1900, Von
Billow was called to succeed him as Chancellor of the empire. His diplomacy was shaped on the whole in accordance with ideas of his Imperial master. In 1905 he set in motion a campaign against the ambitions of France in Morocco which led to the fall of the French Foreign Minister Delcasse and the meeting of the Algeciras conference in 1906. He was raised to the princely rank in 1905. He was especially skilful in controlling a majority in the Reichstag among the different factions until the failure of his budget proposals which led to his resignation in 1909, when he was suc ceeded by Von Bethmann-Hollweg. He has opposed many of the latter's policies and criti cized as inimical to the empire his utterances in the Reichstag on the German conditions of peace.