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    Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee (22 June 1861 – 8 December 1914) was a naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)...
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    Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop...
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    Friedrich Spee (also Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld; February 25, 1591 – August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit priest, professor, and poet, most well known...
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    December in the Falkland Islands as a public holiday. Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee commanding the German squadron of two armoured cruisers, SMS Scharnhorst...
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    take up history painting and helped him obtain a commission from Count Franz von Spee [de] to paint a cycle of frescoes depicting the life of Frederick Barbarossa...
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    Bertha von Lobkowicz (1851–1887), who married Count Friedrich Franz von Brühl, a son of Count Friedrich von Brühl and Princess Marie von Spee. Princess...
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  • Bretzenheim. Ambrosius Franz was the only son of Ambrosius Adrian, Freiherr von Viermund zu Neersen (1640–1688), and Johanna Margaretha von Spee (died 1712). He...
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    the East Asia Squadron, under the command of Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, crossed the Pacific to the western coast of South America, stopping for...
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    on 9 April 1965 and religiously in Hollenegg on 29 May 1965 Rochus Graf von Spee (Borken, 25 October 1925 - Köln, 30 August 1981),[citation needed] and...
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    Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. On 17 July, the East Asia Squadron arrived in Ponape in the Caroline Islands. Spee now had...
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    with Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow. Together with Heinrich Mücke, he completed a number of frescoes for Count Franz von Spee [de] at Heltorf Castle [de]...
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    Jesuit theologian Georg Ohm (1789–1854), Physicist Justus Velsius Friedrich von Spee (1591–1635), Jesuit, poet and opponent of Witch trials Peter Wust (1884–1940)...
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  • the Battle of Coronel, where a German squadron led by Admiral Maximilian von Spee destroyed a weaker British cruiser squadron under the command of Admiral...
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  • Einzelschriften. Heft 20). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1972. Trier und das Trevererland in römischer Zeit (= 2000 Jahre Trier. Band 1). Spee-Verlag, Trier 1985,...
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    rejoined the rest of the Squadron, commanded by Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, which steamed across the Pacific Ocean and encountered a British squadron...
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    assigned in December 1911. This was the only warship of Admiral Maximilian von Spee's East Asia Squadron that managed to evade the Royal Navy for a prolonged...
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    Sylva von Tarouca, or de Silva-Tarouca) Silva-Tarouca Sizzo-Noris Skarbek Somogyi (von Medgyes) Spangen von Uyternesse Spannocchi Spaur Spee (Matz von) Spiegelfeld...
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    followed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Emden was the only German cruiser in Qingdao; Spee's two armored cruisers, Scharnhorst and...
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  • being the East Asia Squadron, under the command of Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee, which was stationed at Tsingtao. The navy also provided a significant...
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    Seherr-Thoß, Spee, Strachwitz, Sztáray, Wedel, Wolff Metternich, Zedlitz u. Trützschler; ISBN 978-3-7980-0846-5, pages 396 & 428. Stammbaumes der Familie von Salis...
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    the Ersatz Yorck-class ships. Two of the Mackensens—the name ship and Graf Spee—were launched but never completed, and the other two were in earlier stages...
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    ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE Westerwald {Troßschiff} - Korvettenkapitän R. Peter Grau: operating with DEUTSCHLAND U 27 - Kapitänleutnant Johannes Franz: North Atlantic...
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    these colonies fell so easily is because of the departure of Admiral von Spee's fleet. In other parts of the Pacific Western Samoa, another German colony...
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  • few rooms for temporary stays in Kalkum. Tenants included the von Spee, von Stumm and von Benningsen families. As several families in the service of the...
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    Squadron, by which time the unit was under the command of VAdm Maximilian von Spee. By that time, Leipzig had accumulated a group of three colliers. On 18...
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    geboren" is a German Christmas carol. The text is attributed to Friedrich Spee and was first printed in the collection Geistlichen Psälterlein (Little sacred...
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    the bishopric, Diether von Isenburg. In 1784 the university was opened up for Protestants and Jews (curator Anselm Franz von Bentzel-Sternau [de] )....
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    1086/238995. JSTOR 1874817. S2CID 154709047. Reilly, Pamela (1959). "Friedrich von Spee's Belief in Witchcraft: Some Deductions from the 'Cautio Criminalis'". The...
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    January 2018. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Dencik, Jacob; Spee, Roel (July 2018). "Global Location Trends – 2018 Annual Report: Getting...
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    von Spee) – 1914. The East Asia Squadron defeated the British West Indies Squadron Battle of the Falkland Islands (Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee)...
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