• August Christoph Viktor von Kleist (19 February 1818, Perkuiken - 14 May 1890, Potsdam) was a Prussian Major General August von Kleist descended from the...
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    Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (8 August 1881 – 13 November 1954) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during World War II...
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  • Kleist, or von Kleist, is a surname. von Kleist: August von Kleist (1818–1890), Prussian Major General Christian von Kleist (1901–after 1933), German...
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    Ewald Christian von Kleist (7 March 1715 – 24 August 1759) was a German poet and cavalry officer. His vast family was well-established in Farther Pomerania;...
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  • occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist. The Kleist Prize was the most important literary award of the Weimar Republic...
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    Friedrich Emil Ferdinand Heinrich von Kleist, granted the title Graf Kleist von Nollendorf from 1814 onwards (9 April 1762 – 17 February 1823), was a...
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  • Army was named Panzer Group Kleist (Panzergruppe Kleist) with Colonel General Ewald von Kleist in command. Panzer Group Kleist was the first operational...
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    Henning Alexander von Kleist (1676/77–1749) was an 18th-century Prussian field marshal. He fought in the War of Spanish Succession, the Great Northern...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Gottfried Arnd von Kleist, (29 August 1724 in Potsdam – 28 August 1767 in Jeschkendorf near Liegnitz) was a Kingdom of Prussian military...
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  • Ruth von Kleist-Retzow (by birth, the Countess of Zedlitz-Trützschler: 4 February 1867 – 2 October 1945) was born into the German nobility and married...
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    August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the...
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    Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (German: [ˈhuːɡo fɔn ˈhoːfmanstaːl]; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist...
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  • Franz Kasimir von Kleist (25 January 1736 – 30 March 1808) was an infantry general of the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1806 as Governor of Magdeburg he capitulated...
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    Alexander von Kleist (24 December 1769 – 8 August 1797) was a German poet of the late 18th century. Franz Alexander was a member of the noble Pomeranian von Kleist...
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  • over the XIV (von Wietersheim), XXXXI (Reinhardt) and XIX Army Corps (Guderian), and renamed as Panzer Group Kleist (Panzergruppe Kleist), was engaged...
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  • Erica von Kleist is a jazz flautist, saxophonist, and composer. She is a descendant of the Pomeranian Prussian noble family von Kleist. As an educator...
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  • von Kleist (9 November 1727 – 21 November 1777) Hans Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow Friederike Albertine married Adam August von Möllendorf. Bernhard von Poten...
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    German). 6 March 2004. Retrieved 19 September 2019. "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg: Kleist im Burgtheater". Die Presse (in German). 21 May 2014. Retrieved 19...
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    Leyden jar (redirect from Kleist jar)
    invention was a discovery made independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of...
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    Michael Kohlhaas (category Novellas by Heinrich von Kleist)
    is a novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Kleist published fragments of the work in volume...
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    Group B to Rundstedt's command. General Ewald von Kleist was now to command Panzer (Armoured) Group Kleist, consisting of three armoured corps, led by Heinz...
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    of Prussia. German Wilhelm Frhr von Humboldt (1767–1835) (Prussia), German language scholar and statesman Karl August, Prince of Hardenburg (1750–1822)...
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    Freiherr von Forcade de Biaix Ludwig von Gablenz Karl von der Gröben Heinrich LXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line Miklós Horthy August von Kleist Ludwig Wilhelm...
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    Phöbus (category Heinrich von Kleist)
    Ein Journal für die Kunst was a literary journal published by Heinrich von Kleist and Adam Heinrich Müller in Dresden between January 1808 and December...
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    Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (German: [ˈhɛlmuːt fɔn ˈmɔltkə]; 26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) was a Prussian field marshal. The chief of staff...
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer...
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    Boxer Harry Haft. Kleist's graphic novel about the Somali runner Samia Yusuf Omar was published in 2015 under the title "Der Traum von Olympia" (The Dream...
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    daughter of a general, and became engaged to Heinrich von Kleist in 1800. In 1811, however, Kleist committed suicide with a friend. Instead, she married...
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    von Homburg, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, or in full Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin) is a play by Heinrich von Kleist written...
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  • on 16 February Herbert von Bismarck married Maria von Kleist-Retzow (1893-1959), a daughter of his former foster mother. Von Bismarck's career in the...
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