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Weil der Fabrikant Bismarck verehrte, schickte er dem Reichskanzler 1871 ein Fässchen seiner Heringe mit der "unterthänigsten Bitte, dieselben künftig als Bismarck-Heringe handeln zu dürfen". [G] A staunch follower of Bismarck, Wiechmann sent a barrel of herring to the Chancellor in 1871, "humbly entreating him for the permission to purvey these herrings under the name of Bismarck herring in future".

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