• Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron (4 September 1889 – 10 April 1941) was a general officer in the Heer (Army) branch of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany...
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    Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934), known as simply Paul von Hindenburg, was a German military...
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    from 1283. Bernhard von Prittwitz († 1561), officer in the service of the Polish crown Carl Bernhard Baron von Prittwitz und Gaffron from the house of Lorzendorf...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1 September 1884 – 1 September 1955) was a German Ambassador to the United States under the Weimar Republic...
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    Joachim Bernhardt von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1726–1793) was a Prussian officer credited with saving the life of Frederick the Great at the Battle of Kunersdorf...
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    21 March 1941) Generalleutnant Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron (22 March 1940 – 10 April 1941) Oberst Maximilian von Herff (10 April 1941 – 13 April...
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    Generalleutnant Erik Oskar Hansen, 15 August 1940 Generalleutnant Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, 1 October 1940 General der Panzertruppe Friedrich Kühn, 22...
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    treaty. After his death, he was replaced by Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron. In 1914, Maltzan was married to Edith Emma Henriette Marie Luise...
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    of the Jebel Akhdar ran out of water and fuel at Tengeder. Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the commander of the 15th Panzer Division, was sent ahead...
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  • traded command of 15th Panzer Division with Generalleutnant Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, and took command of 14th Panzer Division, which he led into...
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    Admiral) Curt von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the deputy commander of the squadron. While the ship was out of service, Prittwitz und Gaffron transferred to...
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    August 1940 – 1 October 1940 Succeeded by Generalleutnant Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron Preceded by None Commander of LIV Army Corps 1 June 1941 –...
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    noble Münsterland family. He was the son of Cäcilie von Luck und Witten (1822–1908) and August Joseph von Ketteler (1808–1853), who died shortly before his...
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    Johann Heinrich Graf von Bernstorff (14 November 1862 – 6 October 1939) was a German politician and ambassador to the United States from 1908 to 1917...
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    Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck (10 July 1892 – 5 January 1955) was a German general who commanded the 15th Panzer Division in the Afrika Korps. Esebeck...
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    1922–1925: Otto Wiedfeldt 1925–1927: Adolf Georg von Maltzan 1928–1933: Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron (resigned April 14, 1933 in opposition to...
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    Admiral à la suite (honorary [full] Admiral) Bernhard Otto Curt von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1849–1922); veteran of the Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian...
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    Susanne von Forcade de Biaix (* 4 December 1731, Berlin) ∞ on 17 November 1756 in Berlin with Carl Bernhard Feriherr von Prittwitz und Gaffron (* 29 March...
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    Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron Maximilian von Prittwitz Wichard von Alvensleben Ferdinand von Quast Gustav Waldemar von Rauch Albrecht von Roon Prince...
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    based in Vladivostok, in early August. On 15 November, KAdm Curt von Prittwitz und Gaffron replaced Geissler as the squadron commander, after which Fürst...
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    Liechtenstein Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron Adolf von Trotha Paul Bader Ludwig Beck Gottlob Berger Moritz von Bissing Walther von Brauchitsch Charles...
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    Hermann Speck von Sternburg (21 August 1852 Leeds, England – 23 August 1908 Heidelberg, Germany) was a German diplomat. Sternburg was educated in the...
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  • Gawlina Dan Gawrecki, historian Adam Gdacjusz, writer Adam Abraham von Gaffron und Oberstradam, Danish general Gunther Gebel-Williams, circus performer...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron on the same day (30 January 1933) that Hitler was appointed Chancellor. The next day, Prittwitz resigned from...
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    Mackensen Otto von Marchtaler Georg von der Marwitz Helmuth von Moltke the Younger Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron Eberhard Graf von Schmettow Heinrich Bone George...
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    on to such a program." In March 1933, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the Ambassador to the United States, resigned on the grounds...
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    ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. Von Seemen, Gerhard (1976). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 : die Ritterkreuzträger sämtlicher Wehrmachtteile, Brillanten-, Schwerter- und Eichenlaubträger...
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    Through maternal lineage, he was a cousin to General Heirnrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, whose grandmother, Maria Camilla Rittner, was a sibling of Sieckenius's...
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  • January – Albert von Maybach, railway manager 24 January – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman 24 February – Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Prussian general...
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    Kurd von Schlözer (original name Conrad Nestor von Schlözer; 5 January 1822, in Lübeck, Free City of Lübeck – 13 May 1894, in Berlin, Germany) was an...
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