Symbols of power in the historical memory of Germany in the late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries (exemplified by the cult of Otto von Bismarck)
The article considers symbols of power, through the prism of which the historical memory represented the first chancellor of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck. The author gives an attention to the Bismarck towers, that were the unique phenomenon at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, an important symbol of the united German state and the a argument of the existence of the Bismarck cult among the young people of Germany. The author considers the historical reasons for Bismarck’s mythologization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is shown, that in modern Germany Bismarck is not perceived in the historical memory in connection with political symbols.