The real intellectual leader of the party was Stahl, a theologian.
From about the year 1844 Bismarck seems to have become very intimate with this religious coterie; his friend Moritz v.

Blankenburg had married Thadden's daughter and Bismarck was constantly a visitor at Triglaff.

It was at Blankenburg's wedding that he first met Hans v.
Kleist, who was in later years to be one of his most intimate friends.
He was, we are told, the most delightful and cheerful of companions; in his tact and refinement he shewed an agreeable contrast to the ordinary manners of Pomerania.

He often rode over to take part in Shakespeare evenings, and amused them by accounts of his visit to England[3].

He was present occasionally at the religious meetings at Triglaff, and though he never quite adopted all the customs of the set the influence on him of these older men was for the next ten years to govern all his political action.