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    Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (12 November 1755 – 28 June 1813) was a Hanoverian-born general in Prussian service from 1801. As the first Chief...
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    Prussian military reformer General Gerhard von Scharnhorst and commissioned into service on 24 October 1907. Scharnhorst served briefly with the High Seas...
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  • German Bundesmarine from 1959 until 1980 Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), a Prussian general Scharnhorst Order, the highest medal awarded to the East...
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    century Prussian army reformers, Gerhard von Scharnhorst and August von Gneisenau. Built for overseas service, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were assigned to...
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    Jena–Auerstedt, including Gebhard von Blücher, Carl von Clausewitz, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, and Hermann von Boyen. Following the Prussian...
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    Coalition in 1806–1807. However, under the subsequent leadership of Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755-1814), Prussian military reformers began modernizing the...
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  • Prussian military reformer and army general Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813). The Infantry Division Scharnhorst was formed on 30 March 1945 in the Dessau...
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    The Scharnhorst class was a class of German battleships (or battlecruisers) built immediately prior to World War II. The first capital ships of Nazi Germany's...
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    vom und zum Stein, Prince Karl August von Hardenberg, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, and Count August Neidhardt von Gneisenau. They set about reforming Prussia's...
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    member of the reorganizing committee, he played a great part, along with Scharnhorst, in the work of reconstructing the Prussian army. Though primarily devoted...
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    Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship or battlecruiser, of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. She was the lead ship...
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    Wernher von Braun Walther von Reichenau Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach Gerhard von Scharnhorst August von Gneisenau Carl von Clausewitz Albrecht von Roon...
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  • nationalist-conservative historian Gerhard Rohlfs (1892–1986), German linguist Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), German general Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894–1945)...
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    The death of Gerhard von Scharnhorst from a wound received at Lützen forced a reorganization of the Prussian Army's command. August von Gneisenau succeeded...
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    instigation of comparatively junior but gifted officers such as Gerhard von Scharnhorst and August von Gneisenau. Nevertheless, such measures were insufficient...
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    undoing of his power in Germany. During the battle of Lützen, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, one of the brightest and most able Prussian generals, was wounded...
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    leader Walter Ulbricht had two neoclassical marble statues of Gerhard von Scharnhorst and Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow by Christian Daniel Rauch removed from...
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    Bogislav Count Tauentzien von Wittenberg. One of the most notable tombs from this period is that of Gerhard von Scharnhorst (a hero of the Napoleonic...
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    Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Blücher and his new chief of staff, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, reorganised his forces into two small corps totaling 21,000 men...
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    General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief-of-staff of the newly reformed Prussian Army (appointed 1809). Clausewitz, Hermann von Boyen (1771–1848)...
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    carried out by Stein and Hardenberg, as well as those of Gerhard von Scharnhorst and August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, to reorganize the army. After the disaster...
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    Ministry in 1809, and Scharnhorst founded an officer's training school, the later Prussian War Academy, in Berlin in 1810. Scharnhorst advocated adopting...
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    Friedrich Engels, and its highest medal after Prussian Army General Gerhard von Scharnhorst. In its first six years the NVA operated as an all-volunteer force...
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    Squadron, replacing KAdm Günther von Krosigk on 4 December. Spee raised his flag on the armored cruiser Scharnhorst, and departed on a tour of the southwest...
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    reforms led by Gerhard von Scharnhorst, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Hermann von Boyen, and educational reforms headed by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Gneisenau...
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    along with the General Staff, systematize the conduct of warfare. Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the most prominent and influential of the reformers, served as...
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    War of the Fourth Coalition, L'Estocq and his chief of staff, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, commanded some 15,000 troops based at Thorn in December 1806 and...
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    including many notable Prussian reformers such as Gerhard von Scharnhorst and August Neidhardt von Gneisenau. It was banned in 1809. Many Tugendbund leaders...
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    generalissimo, awarded on 28 December 1794 Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Napoleonic-era Prussian general. Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Napoleonic-era Prussian...
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    Stein (1757–1831), Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), and Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813) were upheld by the...
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