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    Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz (9 February 1795, Gut Kreisewitz in Alzenau, Lower Silesia – 21 October 1885 in Berlin) is a Royal Prussian Lieutenant-General...
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    the King of Prussia, Allod of Krippitz and Ulsche in Silesia Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz (1795–1885), Royal Prussian Lieutenant-General of Infantry...
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    The impressive entryway is the work of the Engineer-Officer Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz, considered the leading fortifications engineer in Prussia...
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    Ernst Karl Ferdinand von Prittwitz und Gaffron (20 January 1833 – 24 February 1904) was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General and Knight of Justice of the...
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  • Württemberg had no engineering corps King William I appointed Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz, a Prussian major, as the supervisor to oversee the building...
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    fortress Ulm was planned by the Prussian construction manager Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron and built under his supervision between 1842 and...
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    Julius von Verdy du Vernois 1913 – Alfred von Schlieffen 1914 – Karl von Schönberg 1916 – Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke 1917 – Moritz von Bissing...
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    Irish Guards Dr. Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, botanist and conchologist, 1875 Premierleutnant (First Lieutenant) Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron, awarded...
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    origin and comes from the word krzyż, which means "cross". Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz (1795–1885), Prussian Lieutenant-General "Central Statistical...
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  • conductor and educator Ernst Degner, motorcycle road racer Hans Georg Dehmelt, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Hans Karl Graf von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski...
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    – Hermann von Eichhorn (1948–1918) Army Group Commander, promoted to Generalfeldmarschal in 1917 June 16, 1913 – Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848–1917)...
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    instance, the grand-cross "in Brillanten" was granted to Reichskanzler Otto von Bismarck in 1871. Jörg Nimmergut, Handbuch Deutsche Orden, Saarbrücken 1989...
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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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    "Wedell, Karl Heinrich von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 41 (1896), pp. 410–13 (in German). Poten, "Wobersnow, Moritz Franz Kasimir von", Allgemeine...
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    about the location of Ulm station. The military architect Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz and the city and cathedral architect Ferdinand Thrän favoured...
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    of 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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  • January – Albert von Maybach, railway manager 24 January – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman 24 February – Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Prussian...
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    königlich preussischen Armee von 1640–1840, p. 353, at Google Books Bernhard von Poten (1888), "Prittwitz, Joachim Bernhard von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie...
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    Wolfgang Moritz von Prittwitz 8,090 total, 6,900 infantry, 1,000 cavalry, 190 gunners, 23 guns in batteries Brigade: General-Major Karl Wilhelm von Sanitz...
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  • Generalfeldmarschall (general field marshal) OF-10 in Heer (en: Army). Hans von Koester was the first German flag officer to hold this rank. Wilhelm II....
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    (1929–2022) Rudi Mittig (1925–1994) Markus Wolf (1923–2006) Karl Maron (1903–1975) Karl-Heinz Wagner (1928–2011) Comparative officer ranks of World War...
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    and on the Wierzbak (Wierzbach) stream. On 14 March 1828 Captain Moritz von Prittwitz und Gaffron, who had been a member of Rauch's committee, was appointed...
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    Priesdorff, Kurt von: Soldatisches Führertum, Band 1, Hamburg 1937, Pages 354-356, Nr. 371. (in German) Prittwitz, Robert von: Das von Prittwitz’sche Adelsgeschlecht...
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    Russians three days earlier, General Hermann von François persuaded his commanding officer Maximilian von Prittwitz to launch a major offensive against the...
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