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Andreas von der Meden


as the crime drama series "Hamburg Transit". As a voice actor, Von der Meden was renowned as the official German voice of David Hasselhoff, usually dubbing him in a majority of his work such as "Baywatch" in the role of Mitch Buchannon. He also became the voice of Kermit the Frog in the German dubbing of "The Muppets" after the death of Horst Gentzen in 1985 and he even dubbed Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor and Harry Anderson in some of their films. Von der Meden even served as
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Hermann von der Hude


Hermann Philipp Wilhelm von der Hude (2 June 1830 in Lübeck – 4 June 1908 in Berlin) was a German architect. von der Hude trained under the Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler. In 1860 he formed a long-lasting partnership with Julius Hennicke (1832 - 1892). Both had trained at the Berlin Bauakademie under Stüler and Friedrich Ludwig Persius, putting them firmly in the direct influence of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the "Schinkel school". Latvian architect Karl Felsko worked for von der Hude and Hennicke in the 1860s
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Carl August von der Meden


Carl August von der Meden (6 December 1841 – 23 May 1911) was the first president of the Deutscher Tennis Bund (English: German Tennis Federation) and was called the "Father of lawn tennis in Germany". Von der Meden was born on 6 December 1841, the son of a Hamburg merchant and real estate agent. For over a decade he lived in England and worked in the financial district of London. On his way to work he passed the All England Club in Wimbledon. On 9 December 1868 he
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Andreas von der Meden


Andreas von der Meden (January 10, 1943 – April 26, 2017) was a German actor, voice actor and musician who was best known as the German dubbing voice for David Hasselhoff as well as Kermit the Frog in many Muppet productions. Von der Meden started off in 1948 working as a child actor at the Thalia Theater. He also made his first screen appearance in 1949 in a film directed by Gustav Fröhlich. Later on in life, he appeared in the 1959 crime film "" as Roger Ford as well
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Carl August von der Meden


married Sophie Mathlde Eckhardt in Bradford and the couple had three daughters and one son. At the latest in 1881 he returned to Germany. He became the first chairman of the "Uhlenhorster Eislauf-Vereins". This Hamburg club, founded in 1888, had added tennis to its activities and in 1892 organized the first German Championships. Von der Meden was the tournament director, a function which he later also fulfilled for the Bad Homburg tournament which hosted the German Championships between 1897 and 1901. In 1901 von der Meden became chairman
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Friedrich August von der Marwitz


Friedrich August Ludwig von der Marwitz (29 May 1777, Berlin - 6 December 1837, Friedersdorf) was a Prussian nobleman, officer and opponent of the Prussian reforms of Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein. From "Caroline Francisca" (* 23. March 1783; † 28. March 1804) he received a daughter. His second wife, Charlotte née Gräfin von Moltke, (1780–1848), gave birth to nine children, one child died. They had three sons and five daughters. Their oldest daughter "Karoline Franziska"
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Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen


For this feat he was awarded the Hindenburg Cup. The eldest son of Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Freiherr Koenig von und zu Warthausen (1863-1948), and his wife Elisabeth Hedwig Marie Anna von Wiedebach und Nostiz-Jänkendorf (1878-1961), he was born at the family home of Schloss Warthausen, close to the town of Biberach an der Riss in Baden-Württemberg. He attended the "Humanistisches Gymnasium" boarding school in Munich, and in February 1924 graduated from the high school in Kempten, Allgäu, before
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Karl Friedrich Hensler


Karl Friedrich Hensler (1 February 1759 – 24 November 1825) was a dramatist and theatre manager in Vienna. Hensler was born in Vaihingen an der Enz in 1759, son of a ducal physician of Württemberg, and studied at the University of Göttingen. From 1784 he lived in Vienna, where an uncle sought to obtain a diplomatic career for him. Karl von Marinelli, manager of the Theater in der Leopoldstadt in Vienna, staged his play "Der Soldat von Cherson", which opened on 1 May 1785. After its
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Königgrätz order of battle


Infanterie Adolf von Bonin General der Infanterie Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz General der Kavallerie Louis von Mutius General der Infanterie Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld br Chief of Staff: Colonel Ludwig von Schlotheim Generalleutnant Gustav von der Mülbe Feldzeugmeister Ludwig von Benedek br Chief of Staff: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Alfred von Henikstein General der Kavallerie Eduard Clam-Gallas br Deputy: General-Major Leopold Graf Gondrecourt Feldmarschall-Leutnant Karl von Thun und Hohenstein br Deputy: General-Major Josip Filipović Feldmarschall-Leutnant Archduke Ernest br Deputy: General-Major Alois von Baumgarten
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Friedrich von der Trenck


his wife a yearly pension. The Austrians also granted him a pension. By the order of Austria, von der Trenck was sent as an observer of the events of the French Revolution to Paris, where he was accused as a spy and executed by the guillotine on 25 July 1794, two days before the fall of Robespierre and the end of The Terror. The son of Friedrich von der Trenck, the Austrian Lieutenant Field Marschall Karl Albrecht's von der Trenck, inherited the title of Count, a title which the King
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Karl Christian Friedrich Krause


Systems der Philosophie" (1804); "System der Sittenlehre" (1810); "Das Urbild der Menschheit" (1811); and "Vorlesungen über das System der Philosophie" (1828). He left behind him at his death a mass of unpublished notes, part of which has been collected and published by his disciples Karl David August Röder (1806-1879), Heinrich Ahrens (1808–1874), Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Schliephake (1808-1871), Hermann Karl von Leonhardi (1809-1875) (
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Bernhard von Neher


Karl Josef Bernhard von Neher (16 January 1806, Biberach an der Riß - 17 January 1886, Stuttgart) was a German painter. Neher began to study painting in 1822 in Stuttgart, under Johann Heinrich von Dannecker und Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch, but received his primary instruction at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Peter von Cornelius. This was followed by four years in Rome, where he cultivated contacts with the Nazarene movement, led by Friedrich Overbeck und Philipp Veit. In 1832, he returned to Munich, where he
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Karl von Hegel


Friedrich Wilhelm Karl, Ritter von Hegel (7 June 1813 – 5 December 1901) was a German historian. During his lifetime he was a well-known and well-reputed historian who received many awards and honours, because he was one of the major urban historians during the second half of the 19th century. Karl Hegel was born in Nuremberg. He was the son of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who died in 1831, when Karl Hegel was 18 years old. Hegel's own career suffered from the fame
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Karl Krolow


Great Lower Saxony Art Award, 1975, the Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen, the Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the literature prize Stadtschreiber von Bergen and Rainer Maria Rilke Prize for Poetry in 1976, an honorary doctorate from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, in 1983 the Hessischer Kulturpreis (Hessian Culture Prize), in 1985 the Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste and in 1988 the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of Bad Homburg. Karl Krolow is buried in the family grave of his parents and
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Karl Friedrich Eichhorn


regarded as one of the principal authorities on German constitutional law. His chief work is "Deutsche Staats- und Rechtsgeschichte" (Göttingen, 1808- 1823, 5th ed. 1843-1844). In company with Friedrich Karl von Savigny and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen he founded the "Zeitschrift für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft". He was the author besides of "Einleitung in des deutsche Privatrecht mit Einschluss des Lehnrechts" (Gött., 1823) and the "Grundsätze des Kirchenrechts der Katholischen und der Evangelischen Religionspartei in Deutschland", 2 Bde.
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Von der Leyen (family from Krefeld)


and stayed in the von der Leyen residence. The following year Friedrich Heinrich became a member of the French Constituent assembly and in 1813 he was appointed a Baron by Napoleon, in 1816 also by the king of Prussia (with the name "Baron von der Leyen zu Bloemersheim"). The "silk baron" was granted many French and Prussian recognitions. In 1828, the workers at the von der Leyen factories rebelled against their employers and the 11th Hussar Regiment put down the rebellion. Karl Marx described it as the "
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August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz


August Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von der Goltz (July 20, 1765 – January 17, 1832) was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Prussia between 1808 and 1814, the first person to hold that title. Goltz entered the diplomatic service of Prussia in 1787. He help posts in the Prussian Legations at Copenhagen, Mainz, Stockholm, and St Petersburg. In 1807 at the Peace of Tilsit when Napoleon refused to negotiate with Karl August von Hardenberg and demanded his retirement, Goltz signed the treaty in place of Hardenberg and the next year
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Emil Lederer


Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and Eugen von Philippovich, while Ludwig von Mises, Joseph Schumpeter, Felix Somary, Otto Bauer and Rudolf Hilferding were among his fellow students. In 1905, Lederer received "Dr. iur." in Vienna, and in 1911 "Dr. rer. pol." at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The next year, he habilitated at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg with his thesis "Die Privatangestellten in der modernen Wirtschaftsentwicklung". In 1918, he was appointed assistant
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Friedrich Albrecht Karl Herrmann, Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum


Reichsgraf Friedrich Albrecht Karl Herrmann von Wylich und Lottum (20 April 1720 – 3 March 1797) was a Prussian officer. Friedrich von Wylich was born in Anklam, Western Pomerania, as the second son of Major General Johann Christoph von Wylich und Lottum, whose father was the Field Marshal Philipp Karl von Wylich und Lottum. Von Wylich began his military career in 1737; he was involved in all wars and battles under Frederick the Great and rose to the rank of General of Cavalry in 1794 before retiring in 1795. He received
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Königgrätz order of battle


The following units and commanders took part in the Battle of Königgrätz on July 3, 1866. Compiled from the Prussian Army's Official History of the war. King William I of Prussia br General der Infanterie Helmuth von Moltke General der Kavallerie Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia br Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz Generalleutnant Stephan von Schmidt General der Kavallerie Prince Albert of Prussia General der Infanterie Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia br Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal General der Kavallerie Prince August of Württemberg General der
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Jean de Forcade de Biaix


Other members included: Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow, Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, affectionately referred to as ""the old Dessauer"", Count Alexander von Dönhoff, Colonel von Derschau, the Generals von Gerstorf and von Sydow, General Peter von Blankensee, affectionately called ""Blitzpeter"" at court, Caspar Otto von Glasenapp, Christoph Adam von Flanz, Dubislav Gneomar von Natzmer, Heinrich Karl von der Marwitz, Friedrich Wilhelm von Rochow, Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock, Arnold Christoph von Waldow, Johann Christoph
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Karl von Auwers


Karl Friedrich von Auwers (September 16, 1863 – May 3, 1939) was a German chemist, and was the academic adviser of both Karl Ziegler and Georg Wittig at the University of Marburg. Karl Friedrich von Auwers was born the son of the renowned astronomer Arthur Auwers on in Gotha, Germany. He studied at first at the University of Heidelberg and later with August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the University of Berlin, where he received his Ph.D. in 1885. After one further year with Hofmann he joined the group of Victor
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


logic, philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit). In 1811, Hegel married Marie Helena Susanna von Tucher (1791–1855), the eldest daughter of a Senator. This period saw the publication of his second major work, the "Science of Logic" ("Wissenschaft der Logik"; 3 vols., 1812, 1813 and 1816), and the birth of his two legitimate sons, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1813–1901) and Immanuel Thomas Christian (1814–1891). Having received offers of a post from the Universities of
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List of World War I flying aces from Germany


Friedrich-Karl Burckhardt Karl Christ Theodor Croneiss Wilhelm Cymera August Delling Wilhelm Fahlbusch Ludwig Gaim Johannes Gildemeister Siegfried Gussmann Kurt Haber August Hanko Friedrich Hengst Kurt Hetze Hermann Juhnke Werner Junck Wilhelm Kohlbach Johann Kopka Wilhelm Leusch Heinrich Lorenz Hans Marwede Erich Meyer Hans-Georg von der Osten Leopold Reimann Hans Rosencrantz Paul Rothe Richard Rübe Theodor Rumpel (aviator) Johann Schlimpen Roman Schneider Herbert Schroeder Friedrich Schumacher Konrad Schwartz Kurt Seit Eugen Siempelkamp Wilhelm Sommer Helmut Steinbrecher Wilhelm Stör Karl Strünklenberg Alwin Thurm Oswald Traenkner Gerold Tschentschel Alfred Ulmer Hans Viebig Werner Wagener Hasso von Wedel
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Battle of Arnhem (1813)


three cavalry brigades. The infantry contingent included the 3rd Brigade under Karl Heinrich von Zielinski, 4th Brigade led by Heinrich Ludwig August von Thümen, 5th Brigade commanded by Karl Heinrich Ludwig von Borstell and 6th Brigade directed by Karl August Adolf von Krafft. Adolf Friedrich von Oppen commanded cavalry brigades led by Karl Alexander Wilhelm von Treskow, Karl Friedrich Bernhard Hellmuth von Hobe and Hans Joachim Friedrich von Sydow. Karl Friedrich von Holtzendorff directed the corps artillery, pioneers and wagon train. In round numbers, Bülow commanded 30,000 soldiers and 96 field
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Karl von der Heyden


, he was awarded the Duke University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service. Karl von der Heyden has served on the boards of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., Macy's, Inc, AstraZeneca, NYSE Euronext, DreamWorks Animation, Aramark, Cadbury Schweppes, and numerous other companies. He served as Co-Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin. and as a former trustee of Duke University, the YMCA of Greater New York, and other nonprofit organizations. Karl von der Heyden is the author of the memoir "Surviving Berlin,
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Karl Ludwig von Haller


Karl Ludwig von Haller (1 August 1768 – 20 May 1854) was a Swiss jurist. He was the author of "Restauration der Staatswissenschaften" (Restoration of the Science of the State, 1816–1834), a book which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel strongly criticized in "Elements of the Philosophy of Right". This work, which was burnt during the Wartburg festival, opposed nationalism and the bureaucracy of extensive government (including democratic governments). Von Haller was a son of Berne statesman and historian Gottlieb Emanuel von Haller, and
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Karl von der Heyden


to establish The von der Heyden Family Global Health Fellowship Fund, which will continue to support graduate level studies through the Duke Global Health Institute. In 2007, The Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship in Fiction was established to bring talented novelists to Berlin as part of the American Academy’s residential fellowship program. Karl von der Heyden is the recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. In 2010 he was inducted into the Financial Executives International Hall of Fame. In 2011
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Ludwig von Urlichs


Karl Ludwig von Urlichs (November 9, 1813 – November 3, 1889) was a German philologist and archaeologist born in Osnabrück. He was the father of archaeologist Heinrich Ludwig Urlichs (1864-1935). He received his education at the University of Bonn, where he was a student of Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868). Afterwards he travelled throughout Sicily and Italy; in Rome he collaborated with other German scholars on the multi-volume "Beschreibung der Stadt Rom" (1829–1842). In 1840 he returned
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Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda


Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda (also Carl Benda), (baptised 2 May 1748 – 15 March 1836) was a German violinist and composer of Bohemian origin. Karl Benda was the younger of two sons of the violinist and composer Franz Benda. His godparents were the margraves Friedrich Heinrich (Brandenburg-Schwedt) and Karl Friedrich Albrecht von Brandenburg-Schwedt as well as the Russian envoy Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk. Like his sisters Wilhelmine, Maria Carolina, Sophie Anna Henriette, Juliane and his brother Friedrich, he received music lessons from
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Driesen


Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Driesen (, Fyodor Vasilyevich Drizen; 10 August 1781 – 30 September 1851) was a Baltic German General Officer of the Imperial Russian Army. Driesen was born in 1781 to the military officer and future Governor of Courland, , and his wife, Henrietta Albertina von Bellendorf. Driesen's family had, since the early 14th century, been settled in what is now northwestern Poland, with their lands in the vicinity of Drezdenko. In 1797, seeking greater professional success, Wilhelm Karl Heinrich von der Osten-
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Ferdinand von Arnim


Heinrich Ludwig Ferdinand von Arnim (15 September 1814 – 23 March 1866) was a German architect and watercolour-painter. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and mainly worked in Berlin and Potsdam. Arnim was born in Treptow an der Rega in Pomerania (present-day Trzebiatów, Poland), the son of Prussian Captain Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim and his wife Henriette, née Gadebusch. He trained as a land surveyor and studied architecture at the Royal Prussian Building School ("Bauakademie") in Berlin between 1833 and
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Wilhelm Traube


Wilhelm Traube (10 January 1866 – 28 September 1942) was a German chemist. Traube was born at Ratibor (Racibórz) in Prussian Silesia, a son of the famous private scholar Moritz Traube. After studying law for a short time, he studied chemistry in Heidelberg, Breslau (today Wrocław), Munich and Berlin. Among his tutors were August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Adolf von Baeyer and Karl Friedrich Rammelsberg. In 1888 he received his doctorate "Über die Additionsprodukte der Cyansäure". Since 1897 Traube was assistant at the
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Opera in German


especially) French opera. He fused elements from all three national styles into his conception of grand opera, which had an important influence on the development of German music, including Wagner's early works. Other notable operas of the time include "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" (1849) by Otto Nicolai and "Martha" (1847) by Friedrich von Flotow. Later came Peter Cornelius ("Der Barbier von Bagdad", 1858), Hermann Goetz ("Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung", 1874) and Karl Goldmark (
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Friedrich Karl von Schönborn


Friedrich Karl von Schönborn (or Friedrich Carl, 1674–1746) was the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1729 to 1746. He also served as "Reichsvizekanzler" (Vice-Chancellor) of the Holy Roman Empire from 1705 to 1734. Friedrich Karl (Carl) von Schönborn was born in Mainz on 3 March 1674, the second son of (1644-1717, see List of rulers of Schönborn) and his wife, Maria Anna Sophia von Boineburg (1652–1726). Friedrich Karl was the
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Jaunauce Manor


Jaunauce Manor (; ) is a manor house in Jaunauce parish in Saldus municipality in the historical region of Courland, in western Latvia. It was built in the early 19th century for Count Karl Johann Friedrich von Medem, who bequeathed the estate to his daughter Caroline and her husband Ferdinand von der Ropp in 1827. It belonged to the von der Ropp family until the agrarian reform in 1920. The building has housed the Jaunauce primary school since 1931. Jaunace Manor is one of the best preserved examples of late classicism architecture in Latvia
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Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell


' only recorded son, and their fourth recorded child, born in the substantial hunting lodge at (today part of Taunusstein) near Wiesbaden which was the family home. His father, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Ibell (""Der Amtmann Ibell"") (1744-1826), had worked on behalf of the Prince since 1772 with administrative responsibilities for Wehen and seven surrounding villages. His mother was born Christiane Dorothea Franziska Schmidt (1756-1823), the only daughter of Karl Ludwig Schmidt (1719-1756) who
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Karl Scheel


of the "Handbuch der Physik". An endowment by Scheel and his wife Melida funds the annual awarding of the Karl Scheel Prize by the Physical Society in Berlin. From 1885 to 1890, Scheel studied at the "Universität Rostock" and the "Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität" (today, the "Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin"). He received his doctorate in 1890, at the University of Berlin, with a thesis on the expansion of water with temperature. Scheel was authorized to use the title "Professor
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Henriette Herz


Jean Paul, Friedrich Schiller, Mirabeau, Friedrich Rückert, Karl Wilhelm Ramler, Johann Jakob Engel, Georg Ludwig Spalding, the Danish Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Johannes von Müller, the sculptor Schadow, Salomon Maimon, Friedrich von Gentz, Fanny von Arnstein, Madame de Genlis, Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, Gustav von Brinkmann, and Friedrich Schlegel. Alexander von Humboldt often visited and even received Hebrew lessons from Henriette. The theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher was another frequent visitor. After the death of her husband she came under the powerful influence
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Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt


publications — ""Conspectus Florae Africae"" by Durand & Schinz, ""Flora Brasiliensis"" by Martius, ""Symbolæ ad Floram Brasiliæ centralis cognoscendam"" by Eugenius Warming and ""Baron Carl Claus von der Deckens reisen in Ost-Afrika in den jahren 1859 bis 1865"" ("Karl Klaus von der Decken's travels in East Africa in 1859–65"). Klatt's greatest interest though, lay with the Compositae, and his publications on this family covered German East Africa, Madagascar, Australia
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Prussian Reform Movement


Friedrich August von der Marwitz and Friedrich Ludwig Karl Fink von Finkenstein. Their resistance went so far that the cabinet even resorted to imprisoning them at Spandau. The historian Reinhart Koselleck has argued that the establishment of a corporative national representative body prevented all later reforms. At the end of the reforming period, the districts and the provincial representative bodies (such as the "Provinziallandtage") remained based on corporative principles. Prussia was prevented from forming a true representative national body, with considerable consequences on the internal development of Prussia and the
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Ricarda Huch


birth to their daughter Marietta. In 1899 the first volume of her two volume study on German Romanticism was published, "Blütezeit der Romantik". The book launched Huch as contributor to the contemporary cultural discourse in Germany and established her reputation as a historian. "Ausbreitung und Verfall der Romantik" was published in 1902. Huch argued that German Romanticism went through a period of blossoming and a later period of decay. She argued that August Wilhelm Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich von Hardenberg, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig
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Karl von Lützow


Karl von Lützow (25 December 1832 – 22 April 1897) was a German art historian and critic. He was born in Göttingen. From 1851 to 1856 he studied philology and archæology at the universities of Göttingen and Munich, where he was a favored student of Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch. He was associated in Berlin with Wilhelm Lübke in editing "Denkmäler der Kunst". He was appointed docent of art history at the University of Munich in 1858, then edited in Vienna the "Rezensionen und Mittheilungen über bildende Kunst". In
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Otto Friedrich von der Groeben


the first colony of Brandenburg, he was awarded the prospective entitlement of the "Amtshauptmann" of Marienwerder und Riesenburg in succession to that of his father. In 1686 von der Groeben joined Venetian service and at Morea. On 3 January 1688 he was promoted to "oberst" in the Prussian Army, then in 1704, made a Royal Prussian "Kammerherr". In 1719 von der Groeben joined the Polish army and was promoted to major general, then lieutenant general. Von der Groeben was married three times and had 20 children
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Ernst Moritz Arndt


to Greifswald, but only for a few months. He again set out on his adventurous travels, lived in close contact, with notable men of his time, such as Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, August von Gneisenau and Heinrich Friedrich Karl Stein, and in 1812 was summoned by the last named to St Petersburg to assist in the organization of the final struggle against France. Meanwhile, pamphlet after pamphlet, and his stirring patriotic songs, such as "Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?", "Der Gott, der Eisen
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Hubertusburg


troops. Furious Frederick ordered the plundering of Hubertusburg in revenge, however, his general Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz (according to other sources Friedrich Christoph von Saldern) refused to act. He was consequently dismissed and replaced by Frederick's confidant Karl Gottlieb Guichard, who executed the command. The decorations and inventory – except for the court chapel – were exploited by the Berlin court Jews Veitel-Heine Ephraim and Daniel Itzig. The palace is famous for the Peace Treaty of Hubertusburg signed here after lengthy negotiations in the next year
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Dichtung und Wahrheit


about his youth on the basis of meetings she had had with his mother out of a related interest. When Bettina had complied with this wish, the poet mainly used her notes for a depiction of his mother, "Aristeia der Mutter", which he did not include in the autobiography. He also asked Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra, Karl Ludwig von Knebel, and Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser for help. Goethe wrote "Dichtung und Wahrheit" from the point of view of the scientist, the historian and the artist.
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Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger


16 March 1797 Karl Haidinger died in Vienna. When Wilhelm Haidinger was only two years old, he had lost his father. The books on mineralogy and the collection of rocks and minerals of his father will almost certainly have raised the interest of young Wilhelm. The collection of his uncle, banker Jakob Friedrich van der Nüll, was by far larger and much more precious, even to such a degree that the famous professor Friedrich Mohs of Freiberg (Germany) had been asked to describe it in detail. Young Wilhelm Haidinger and
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Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck


at Pola in 1869 with the rank of full captain ("Linienschiffskapitän." He was promoted to "Kontradmiral" in 1872 and took part in the 1872-74 North Polar expedition of Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht as commander of the "Isbjörn." It was this expedition that discovered Franz Josef Land, named for the Austrian emperor, in 1873. Daublebsky von Sterneck was named to succeed Friedrich von Pöck as "Marinekommandant" (Navy Commander) and "Chef der Marinesektion" (Chief of the Naval Section of
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Karl Friedrich Hermann


and director of the philological seminary. In 1842 he transferred to Göttingen as the chair of philology and archaeology, vacant by the death of Otfried Müller. At Göttingen, his colleagues were Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, Ernst von Leutsch and Friedrich Wieseler. His knowledge of all branches of classical learning was profound, but he was chiefly distinguished for his works on Greek antiquities and ancient philosophy. Among these may be mentioned, the "Lehrbuch der griechischen Antiquitäten" (1858) dealing with political, religious and domestic antiquities; the "Geschichte
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Der Besuch der alten Dame (opera)


Der Besuch der alten Dame ("The Visit of the Old Lady") is an opera in three acts by Gottfried von Einem to a German libretto by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, based on his play of the same name. The work was first performed at the Vienna State Opera on 23 May 1971, with Horst Stein conducting and Christa Ludwig in the principal role. The German premiere was staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 1 March 1972. Further productions followed in Strasbourg and Karl Marx Stadt in 1973, and in Stockholm in
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Georg von der Gabelentz


). In 1878, a Professorship of Far Eastern Languages, the first of its kind in the German-speaking world, was created at the University of Leipzig, and Gabelentz was invited to fill it. Among his students were the German sinologists Wilhelm Grube (1855–1908) and Johann Jakob Maria de Groot (1854–1921), the Austrian Sinologist Arthur von Rosthorn (1862–1945), the Japanologist Karl Florenz (1865–1939), the archaeologist Max Uhle (1856–1944), the Tibetologist Heinrich Wenzel and the art historian Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Müller
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Karl Friedrich von Klöden


gave lessons at Plamann's institute while attending the University of Berlin. In 1817, he was made director of the normal school at Potsdam, and seven years afterwards of a commercial school in Berlin. His most important work was geographical; besides his maps of Europe, mention should be made of "Grundlinien zu einer neuen Theorie der Erdgestaltung" (1824) and "Landeskunde von Palästina" (1816). His historical works include: "Ueber die Entstehung, das Alter und die früheste Geschichte der Städte Berlin und Kölln"
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Franco-Prussian War order of battle


Chiefs: "Oberstleutnant" Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff; "Oberstleutnant" Julius von Verdy du Vernois; "Oberstleutnant" von Brandenstein General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (later General von Manteuffel) "General der Kavallerie" Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia Commander: Crown Prince of Prussia Chief of Staff: "Generalleutnant" Leonhard von Blumenthal Though not a belligerent in the conflict, the Belgian army was mobilized and placed on readiness at the country's borders in fear of a preemptive attack by either party through the neutral territory during the Franco-
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Stephan Alexander Würdtwein


Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein, Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim, and Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, the last prince-elector and archbishop of the old Mainz electorate and of the ancien régime. Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein, also from Amorbach, offered Würdtwein a position as tutor to his nephew, Philipp Karl, and then as prebendary at the Stift St. Maria ad Gradus, where from 1762 to 1783 he also served as dean. On the basis of his extensive study of canon law, he was honored in 1758
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List of World War I flying aces from Germany


Böhning Walter Böning Ernst Hess Rudolf Klimke Karl Plauth Franz Ray Hans Rolfes Josef Schwendemann Ernst Bormann Ludwig Hanstein Johannes Klein Karl Odebrett Wilhelm Seitz Hans Weiss (aviator) Karl Bohnenkamp Albert Dossenbach Rudolf Francke Albert Haussmann Alois Heldmann Max Immelmann Otto Löffler Hans-Georg von der Marwitz Edmund Nathanael Wilhelm Neuenhofen Viktor von Pressentin von Rautter Theodor Quandt Julius Schmidt (aviator) Kurt Schneider (aviator) Paul Strähle Reinhold Jörke Franz Piechulek Georg Schlenker Rudolf Wendelmuth Hans-Joachim Buddecke Siegfried Büttner Friedrich Christiansen Dieter Collin Heinrich Geigl Robert Heibert Johannes Janzen Christian Mesch Otto
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Max Planck Institute for Physics


continuing as managing director. In 1946, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Karl Wirtz joined the faculty as the directors for theoretical and experimental physics, respectively. In June 1942, Werner Heisenberg took over as managing director. In 1955 the institute made the decision to move to Munich, and soon after began construction of its current building, designed by Sep Ruf. The institute moved into its current location on September 1, 1958 and took on the new name the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics, still with Heisenberg as the
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Albrecht Gustav von Manstein


, which he led during the Second Schleswig War in the Battle of Dybbøl and at Als. During the Austro-Prussian War he commanded the reserve of the First Army, which he led during the battle of Königgrätz and for which he was awarded the Pour le Mérite. In 1867, Manstein was given command of IX Corps and was promoted to General der Infanterie in 1868. When the Franco-German War started in August 1870, IX Corps became part of the Second Army of Prince Friedrich Karl. Manstein and his Corps
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Otto Fuhrmann


Otto Fuhrmann (1 April 1871 in Basel – 27 January 1945) was a Swiss parasitologist who specialized in the field of helminthology. He studied at the University of Basel as a pupil of Ludwig Ruetimeyer and Friedrich Zschokke. He then continued his education at Geneva, where he was persuaded by zoologist Karl Vogt to focus his studies on parasitic flatworms. In 1894 he received his doctorate with the thesis ""Die Turbellarien der Umgebung von Basel"", and following a stint as an assistant at the University of Geneva, he
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Battle of the Göhrde


modern-day districts of Lüneburg and Lüchow-Dannenberg, between Oldendorf an der Göhrde and Göhrde. In spring 1813, Russian troops under Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn forced the French out of Hamburg and some northern areas of Hanover. In the wake of Prussia's reentry into the war against France, the eastern areas of Hanover also rose against Napoleon. Wallmoden then received overall command of all the Allied troops on the Lower Elbe: troops from Prussia, Russia, the United Kingdom, Hanover, Hamburg, Mecklenburg and Sweden, including
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Ernst von der Malsburg


Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto, Freiherr von der Malsburg (June 23, 1786 – September 20, 1824) was a German statesman, poet, and translator. Born at Hanau, Ernst Friedrich was the younger son of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von der Malsburg by his wife Elizabeth Leigh, daughter of Sir Egerton Leigh, 1st Baronet. His father, a Lieutenant-Colonel commanded the Infanterie-Regiment von der Malsburg as allies of George III during the American War of Independence; he was also brother-in-law to David Garrick
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Von Baer's laws (embryology)


Von Baer's laws of embryology (or laws of development) are four rules proposed by Karl Ernst von Baer to explain the observed pattern of embryonic development in different species. Von Baer formulated the laws in the book "Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere" (""On the Developmental History of Animals""), published in 1828, while working at the University of Königsberg. He specifically intended to rebut Johann Friedrich Meckel's 1808 recapitulation theory. According to that theory, embryos pass through successive stages that represent the adult forms
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Wilhelm von Hahnke


Wilhelm Gustav Karl Bernhard von Hahnke (1 October 1833 in Berlin – 8 February 1912) was a Prussian Field Marshal. He was the son of later Prussian Oberst Wilhelm von Hahnke (died 1861) and his wife Angelique, née von der Lancken (died 1873). He married 1865 in Berlin Josephine von Bülow (1842–1911), daughter of Friedrich von Bülow (1789–1853). The couple had seven sons and two daughters, among them: Wilhelm (1867–1931), Prussian Major general ∞ Elisabeth von Schlieffen (born 1869
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Karl von Normann-Ehrenfels


Karl Friedrich Leberecht Graf von Normann-Ehrenfels (, Stuttgart, 14 September 1784 – Missolonghi, 15 November 1822) was a Württembergian soldier who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. As a Philhellene he sailed to Greece to assist the Greek rebels in the Greek War of Independence, and died there of wounds received in the Battle of Peta. Karl von Normann-Ehrenfels was one of the sons of the jurist Philipp Christian von Normann-Ehrenfels, who served as the Kingdom of Württemberg's chief minister in 1806–1812. In 1799 he
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Karl von der Heyden


Karl von der Heyden is a German-American businessman best known for his former roles as the Co-Chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco, and CFO of PepsiCo. Karl von der Heyden was born in 1936 in Berlin, Germany and attended the Free University of Berlin. He graduated from Duke University in 1962 and obtained an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. Karl von der Heyden began his business career as a management trainee at the Berliner Bank AG. He joined Coopers & Lybrand,
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Heinrich Wuttke


dissertation on Thucydides. In 1841 he became lecturer "Privatdozent" of history at the University of Leipzig, having received his habilitation from Wilhelm Wachsmuth, again with a treatise on Thucydides. In 1848 he succeeded Friedrich Christian August Hasse as full professor at the auxiliary sciences of history department in Leipzig. Wuttke maintained good relations with the Saxon education minister Karl Ludwig von der Pfordten. From May 1848, he was a member of the revolutionary Frankfurt Parliament. A close ally of the progressive politician Robert Blum, he joined the left-
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Georg Gottfried Gervinus


in 1830 "Privatdozent" at Heidelberg. In this period he became a friend of the young historian Karl von Hegel (the son of the Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) and of the jurist Georg Beseler. A volume of his collected "Historische Schriften" procured him the appointment of professor extraordinarius; while the first volume of his "Geschichte der poetischen Nationallitteratur der Deutschen" (History of the poetical national literature of the Germans; 1835–1842, 5 vols.) subsequently entitled "Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung" (History of German
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Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel


Gottfried Krause, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Christoph Nichelmann and Johann Joachim Quantz. In 1755 Birnstiel published Karl Wilhelm Ramler's libretto of Carl Heinrich Graun's cantata "Der Tod Jesu". The music of this Passion setting was published five years later by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf. The (critical letters about musical composition) were published from 1759 to 1764, edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, who was also the author of most of the letters in this collection. They were published in three volumes: "Musikalisches Allerley von verschiedenen Tonkünstlern
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Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleship


in the casemates also had 150 mm worth of armor protection. The five ships of the "Kaiser Friedrich" class were built by a combination of government and private shipyards. Three of the ships—"Kaiser Friedrich III", "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse", and "Kaiser Karl der Grosse"—were delayed during construction; "Kaiser Friedrich III" had to wait for her main guns to be completed before entering service. "Kaiser Karl der Grosse" was damaged by an accidental grounding by the shipyard crew when they were moving the ship from
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Otto Wagner


studied at the Royal Academy of Architecture under Carl Ferdinand Busse, a classicist and student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the leader of the German school of neoclassical and neo-Gothic architecture. He returned to Vienna in 1861 and continued his architectural education at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, under August Sicard von von Sicardsburg and Edouard von der Nüll, who had designed the neoclassical Vienna State Opera and the architectural monuments along the Vienna Ringstraße. In 1862, at the age of 22, he joined the architectural firm of Ludwig von
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Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz


Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz (24 March 1723 – 14 December 1781) was a Prussian general during the epoch of Frederick the Great. Born on his family's estate, Friedersdorf, near Seelow, district of Küstrin; †he entered the cavalry regiment Gensdarmes at the age of 17 and was promoted to commander over the years. In the Battle of Zorndorf he led his regiment with distinction and was promoted to major. He was even awarded the highest decoration of Prussia, the Pour le Mérite. In the battle of Hochkirch
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Karl Christoph von der Goltz


" (right over life and death) by the king in the headquarters of Hausdorf. On 13 May 1761, Goltz was awarded the Black Eagle Order. In June, however, he fell ill with typhus in the encampment near Glogau, where he died. Goltz was included on the Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great. He was the second son of the "rittmeister" (cavalry captain) Henning Bernhard von der Goltz and his wife Maria Katharina von Heidebreck. His elder brother, Henning Bernd von der Goltz, was
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Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam


von Gottberg br Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein br Lieutenant Colonel (res.) Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg br Lieutenant General Paul von Hase br Lieutenant Ewald Heinrich von Kleist br Colonel Hans Otfried von Linstow br Captain Friedrich Karl Klausing br Major (res.) Ferdinand Freiherr von Lünick br Major (res.) Herbert Meyer br Lieutenant Georg-Sigismund von Oppen br Colonel Alexis Freiherr von Roenne br Lieutenant Colonel (res.) Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburgbr Lieutenant Colonel Gerd von Tresckow br Major General Henning von Tresckow
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August von Kruse


brigade at the Battle of Waterloo. In his retirement, he experimented in new farming and cattle breeding techniques on a small acreage given to him by the Duke of Nassau, exploring the problems in raising healthy cattle. August von Kruse was born in Wiesbaden in 1779. His father, Karl Friedrich von Kruse (1737–1806), a state official in the service of Nassau-Usingen, wrote several books on husbandry and household management, including "Lehrbegriffs der Landwirtschaft und Haushaltungskunste" for the Naussau schools in 1780, and "Wahren
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Karl Friedrich von Savigny


Karl Friedrich von Savigny (19 September 1814 – 11 February 1875) was a Prussian diplomat, politician, and a leading member of the Centre Party. His father was the jurist Friedrich Karl von Savigny, who was then privy councillor of the court of appeals, member of the Prussian council of State, and professor at the University of Berlin, and his mother was Kunigunde Brentano, sister of the poet Clemens Brentano. The father was a Protestant, but the mother was a Catholic, and the children were allowed to follow
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Georg Reismüller


1. April 1923 bis 1. Sep. 1925, Von Bibliotheksdirektor Dr. Reismüller, In: Pfälz. Museum. 42.1925, 259-261. 21 Georg von Neumayers Bibliothek. Von Bibliotheksdirektor Dr. Reismülle. In: Pfälz. Museum, 43.1926, 111. 22. Zur Geschichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken in der Pfalz. Von Dr. Reismüller. In: Pfälz, Museum, 44,1927, 9-11. 23. Zensur und Zeitung in der Pfalz von hundert Jahren, Vor Dr. Reismüller-Speyer. In: Frankenthaler Tagblatt. 1.10.1927,
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Christian Friedrich von Glück


Christian Friedrich von Glück (1 July 1755 – 20 January 1831) was a German jurist. Born at Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg, he studied from 1770 to 1776 at the University of Halle, and on 16 April 1777 he received its doctor title. After seven years as a private lecturer he decided to go to Erlangen in 1784 for Friedrich-Alexander-University and became their fifth-professor of the jurisprudence. In 1785 he married Wilhelmine Elisabeth Geiger. From the marriage he had two sons, Christian Karl von
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Gerhard Raff


gut Wirtemberg allewege II: Das Haus Württemberg von Herzog Friedrich I. bis Herzog Eberhard III. Mit den Linien Stuttgart, Mömpelgard, Weiltingen, Neuenbürg, Neuenstadt am Kocher und Oels in Schlesien, Degerloch 1993 Hie gut Wirtemberg allewege III: Das Haus Württemberg von Herzog Wilhelm Ludwig bis Herzog Friedrich Karl. Mit den Linien Stuttgart, Winnental, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Neuenbürg, Mömpelgard und Oels, Bernstadt und Juliusburg in Schlesien und Weiltingen. Degerloch 2002 Chronik der Stadt Stuttgart 1954–1960 (Stuttgart City Chronicle) Herr, schmeiß Hirn ra!,
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Lessing Theater


Renaissance Revival style by the architects Hermann von der Hude and Julius Hennicke, was constructed in less than a year, between October 1887 and September 1888. The theatre opened on 11 September 1888, staging Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama "Nathan the Wise". The oddly angled piece of land, the site of former Circus Krembser, was located in the historic Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt quarter, at the corner of Friedrich-Karl-Ufer 1 (since 1951: Kapelle-Ufer) on the Spree riverside and Unterbaumstraße.
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Friedrich Karl von Schönborn


unanimously as Bishop of Würzburg, after von Hutten had died. Nonetheless he continued to mainly reside in Vienna for a number of years. Friedrich Karl had been the favourite nephew of Lothar Franz, who bequeathed to him "Schloss Weissenstein", a large Baroque palace at Pommersfelden. Among his various residences, Friedrich Karl clearly preferred Würzburg, however. As an imperial prince, Friedrich Karl remained a supporter of the Habsburgs, despite numerous and significant political differences. His considered, moderately absolutist, rule served him well in reorganizing administration
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Karl von der Heyden


$4 million in 2000 to expand the libraries. The Karl and Mary Ellen von der Heyden Pavilion was completed in 2005, and remains a popular student eatery, meeting, and study space on Duke University's West Campus. Travel + Leisure Magazine has included the Karl and Mary Ellen von der Heyden Pavilion in their list of America's most beautiful college libraries. In 2015, von der Heyden gave $7 million to Duke towards a new arts center and $1 million to help fund graduate fellowships. That gift was used
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Friedrich von der Decken


Graf Johann Friedrich von der Decken (25 May 1769 – 22 May 1840) was a Hanoverian general and diplomat during the Napoleonic Wars. The von der Deckens are an old noble family in Lower Saxony which produced several officers for the forces of the Electorate of Hanover. In 1784 Johann Friedrich joined the army, fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars from 1793 to 1795. He headed a military journal with his friend Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the Prussian military reformer for many years. In 1803 he joined the diplomatic service on Napoleon's
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The Homburg Cup


The Homburg Cup its original name was a tennis event held from 1894 through 1935 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany on outdoor Clay court's. The Homburg Cup tournament was first held in 1894 played at the Bad Homburg Tennis Club, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany and usually August. The Homburg Cup was organised by the 1st President of the German Tennis Federation, Carl August von der Meden, the early staging of this event attracted some of the most well known aristocracy in Europe such as the, Emperor of
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Carl Anton von Meyer


Carl Anton von Meyer (in Russian: Карл Анто́нович фон Ме́йер, "Karl Antonovich von Meyer") (1 April 1795 in Vitebsk – 24 February 1855 in Saint Petersburg) was a German, Russified botanist and explorer. He received his education at the University of Dorpat (1813-14) as a student of Karl Friedrich von Ledebour, with whom he later embarked on a scientific journey to the Crimea (1818). In 1826, with Ledebour and Alexander G. von Bunge, he took part in an expedition to
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Pour le Mérite


Schweitzer (1954), Thomas Mann (1955), Oskar Kokoschka (1955), Carl Orff (1956), Erwin Schrödinger (1956), Thornton Wilder (1956), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1956), Werner Heisenberg (1957), Gerhard Ritter (1957), Lise Meitner (1957), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1957), Percy Ernst Schramm (1958), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1961), Karl Jaspers (1964), Otto Klemperer (1967), Carl Zuckmayer (
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Friedrich von der Pahlen


Friedrich Alexander Graf von der Pahlen (, Fyodor Petrovich Palen; September 2, 1780 in Mitau – January 8, 1863 in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German diplomat and administrator. Friedrich was the youngest son of Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, a prominent Russian courtier. He worked at Russian diplomatic missions in Sweden, France and Great Britain. In 1809-1811 he was Imperial Russia's Ambassador to the United States, in 1811-1815 he was the Ambassador to Brazil and in 1815-1822 he was the Ambassador
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Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg


a co-conspirator and eventually executed. He was a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John, which was regarded with disfavour by the Nazis. Schulenburg was born in Kemberg, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, to Count Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm von der Schulenburg, he was from the Brandenburgish Schulenburg family, which was part of the Uradel (or old nobility). Friedrich-Werner was distantly related to the 17th-Century Saxon Generalfeldmarschall Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg and was a cousin to the SS-Obergruppenführer
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Bassewitz


Bassewitz" (Count von Bassewitz). Four descendants of Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz held the highest office (prime minister) in Mecklenburg: Count Carl Friedrich (1720–1783) — President of the Privy Council Count Bernhard-Friedrich (1756–1816) – President of the Privy Council Count Henning Karl Friedrich (1814–1885) – President of the Privy Council Count Karl (1855–1921) – President of the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1901 through 1914. Hereditary Holy Roman imperial countship granted to Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz in Vienna on 9
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Friedrich von der Trenck


commission of Cornet. In August 1744 during the Silesian Wars Friedrich was sent to Silesia and became an orderly officer of Frederick the Great. Unfortunately for Friedrich, his first cousin Baron Franz von der Trenck, who was on the side of Austria, nearly captured Frederick the Great and returned his cousin's horses that had been taken by an Austrian officer. Rumors spread that Friedrich was an Austrian spy and after it was learned that he was Franz von Trenck's sole heir, the rumors were impossible to silence. Friedrich was imprisoned
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Adalbert Stifter


versions, sometimes radically changed. His major works are the long novels "Der Nachsommer" and "Witiko". Stifter's "Der Nachsommer" (1857) and Gottfried Keller's "Die Leute von Seldwyla" ("The People of Seldwyla") were named the two great German novels of the 19th century by Friedrich Nietzsche. "Der Nachsommer" is considered one of the finest examples of the Bildungsroman, but received a mixed reception from critics at the time. Friedrich Hebbel offered the crown of Poland to whoever could
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Otto Friedrich von der Groeben


Otto Friedrich von der Groeben (16 April 1657 – 30 June 1728) was a Prussian explorer, officer and German Generalleutnant in Polish service. Von der Groeben was born in Napratten (today Napraty, Poland) to the General Georg Heinrich von der Groeben. He started a journey through Italy, Malta, Egypt, Palestine and Cyprus in the age of 17 and returned in 1680. After Philipp Pietersen Blonck, a sailor in Prussian service, had landed at the Cape Three Points (modern Ghana) and signed a treaty of
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Friedrich von der Groeben


Friedrich von der Groeben (1645–1712) was a Prussian aristocrat and commander of the Foreign Legion of King John III Sobieski in the Battle of Vienna. Von der Groeben joined the "Foreign Legion" or "German Infantry" in Polish military service about 1670 and became a lieutenant colonel in 1675 and by the end of the same year its commander and colonel. After John III Sobieski became King of Poland in 1674 he sent von der Groeben with diplomatic tasks to the Tatars and to the Ottoman Empire to find out as much as
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Bassewitz


Hans von Bassewitz" on Hohenluckow manor († 1397). The Mecklenburgian branch had estates in the territory of the Duchy of Mecklenburg while the Wendish branch owned estates in the former "Principality of Wenden". All current male members of the Wendish branch are descendants of Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz (1680–1749), who was awarded with a hereditary Holy Roman imperial countship (Reichsgraf) in 1726 by Emperor Karl VI for his diplomatic services. All legitimate male-line descendants of Count Henning Friedrich bear the name "Graf von
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SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse


opposition in the "Reichstag" (Imperial Diet), and a lack of a coherent fleet plan delayed the acquisition of further battleships. The Secretary of the "Reichsmarineamt" (Imperial Navy Office), "Vizeadmiral" (Vice Admiral) Friedrich von Hollmann struggled throughout the early- and mid-1890s to secure parliamentary approval for the s, but in June 1897, Hollmann was replaced by "Konteradmiral" (Rear Admiral) Alfred von Tirpitz, who quickly proposed and secured approval for the first Naval Law in early 1898. The law
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Julius von Hann


Julius Ferdinand von Hann (23 March 1839 in Wartberg ob der Aist near Linz – 1 October 1921 in Vienna) was an Austrian meteorologist. He is seen as a father of modern meteorology. He was educated at the gymnasium of Kremsmünster and then studied mathematics, chemistry and physics at the University of Vienna, then geology and paleontology under Eduard Suess and physical geography under Friedrich Simony. From 1865 to 1868, he was master at the "Oberrealschule" at Linz, and in 1865 was invited by Karl Jelinek to become the
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Das Nachtlager in Granada


Das Nachtlager in Granada ("The Night Camp in Granada") is a romantic opera in two acts by Conradin Kreutzer. The libretto is written by Karl Johann Braun von Braunthal based on Johann Friedrich Kind’s drama "Das Nachtlager von Granada". The premiere of a first version with spoken dialogue was performed on 13 January 1834 at Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna. The second version (with recitatives) was performed on 9 March 1837 at Theater am Kärntnertor. It was subsequently given in London at the former Prince's
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Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein


the "Tonkünstler-Fest" of 1919 in Berlin, the "ADMV" restarted with a concert program consisting of Karl Prohaska's Oratorio "Frühlingsfeier", Friedrich Klose's Oratorio "Der Sonne Geist", Julius Weismann's "Lieder auf indische Dichtungen" with Trio accompaniment, Siegmund von Hausegger's "Aufklänge", Symphonic variations on the nursery-rhyme "Schlaf, Kindchen, schlaf", Georg Schumann's "Variationen über ein Thema von Bach", Op. 59, and his scene "David und Absalom"
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Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz


and very well-educated man of the world, a great friend of literature and arts". His tombstone bears the following inscription, engraved by his nephew Friedrich August Ludwig von der Marwitz: ""Chose disfavour where obedience did not bring honour"" (""Wählte Ungnade, wo Gehorsam nicht Ehre brachte."") Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz died unmarried in Berlin in 1781. ""Chose disgrace where obedience did not bring honour"" This gravestone inscription is still a widely known phrase in Germany
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Rennenkampff


back to Germany. The Rennenkampff family had a long history of military service in the Swedish and Russian Empires, including Paul Andreas and Karl Friedrich von Rennenkampff, both served in the Imperial Russian Army and fought Napoleon during the early 19th century. Most famous was the WWI general Paul von Rennenkampf. Many from the family were high-ranking officers and many had received the German award Pour le Mérite. The Baltic lines mainly consisted of the Lutheran branches of the family: The Russian lines mainly consisted of the Orthodox converted branches,
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Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim


Archbishop of Mainz Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein. Anton Heinrich Friedrich von Stadion was associated with the introduction of Enlightenment-inspired reforms in the Archbishopric of Mainz. Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim was ordained as a priest in Mainz on October 5, 1758, becoming the dean of Mainz Cathedral. Following the death of Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein on June 4, 1763, the cathedral chapter of Mainz Cathedral elected Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim as Archbishop of Mainz on July 5, 1763. Pope Clement XIII confirmed his appointment
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