Reinsurance Treaty

Reinsurance Treaty
(June 18, 1887) Secret agreement between Germany and Russia.

Arranged by Otto von Bismarck after the collapse of the Three Emperors' League, it provided that each party would remain neutral if either became involved in a war with a third nation, and that this would not apply if Germany attacked France or if Russia attacked Austria. Germany acknowledged the Russian sphere of influence in Bulgaria. After the treaty was not renewed in 1890, a Franco-Russian alliance began to take shape.

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▪ Germany-Russia [1887]
      (June 18, 1887), a secret agreement between Germany and Russia arranged by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck (Bismarck, Otto von) after the German-Austrian-Russian Dreikaiserbund, or Three Emperors' League, collapsed in 1887 because of competition between Austria-Hungary and Russia for spheres of influence in the Balkans. The treaty provided that each party would remain neutral if the other became involved in a war with a third great power and that this would not apply if Germany attacked France or if Russia attacked Austria. Bismarck showed the Russian ambassador the text of the German-Austrian alliance of 1879 to drive home the last point. Germany paid for Russian friendship by agreeing to the Russian sphere of influence in Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia (now part of southern Bulgaria) and by agreeing to support Russian action to keep the Black Sea as its own preserve. When the treaty was not renewed in 1890, a Franco-Russian alliance (Dual Alliance) rapidly began to take shape.

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