The government played a powerful role in the industrialization of the German Empire founded by Otto von Bismarck in 1871 during a period known as the Second Industrial Revolution.
Industrialization Throughout the World. From Great Britain, industrialization spread to countries like Belgium, France, and Germany. Belgium, though small, became a pioneer of continental European industrialization. By the 1820s and 1830s, iron works began popping up near the coal-rich area of Liège