The Bank of Danzig (German: Bank von Danzig) was the central bank of the Free City of Danzig, established in 1924 and liquidated in the aftermath of the...
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The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of...
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Wrzeszcz (redirect from Danzig-Wrzeszcz)
meaning frost. In 1412 AD, this suburban village was granted to Danzig city councillor Gerd von der Beke, an ally of the Teutonic Knights. The place was known...
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The Danzig crisis was a 1939 crisis that led to World War II breaking out in Europe. On 8 January 1918, the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the...
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Gdańsk (redirect from Gdansk/Danzig)
ISBN 978-0-415-01267-6. Harlander, Christa (2004). Stadtanlage und Befestigung von Danzig (zur Zeit des Deutschen Ordens). GRIN Verlag. p. 2. ISBN 978-3-638-75010-3...
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Papiermark (redirect from Danzig mark)
£stg5.2 or US$23.81. The Danziger Privat Actien-Bank (opened 1856) was the first bank established in Danzig. They issued two series of notes denominated...
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Free City of Danzig on 7 April 1935. The Nazi Party emerged as the largest party, receiving 59% of the vote and...
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History of Gdańsk (redirect from History of Gdansk (Danzig))
1793–1807 Free City of Danzig 1807–1814 Kingdom of Prussia 1814–1871 German Empire 1871–1918 Weimar Germany 1918–1920 Free City of Danzig 1920–1939 Nazi Germany...
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Jerry Only (section Only/Danzig lawsuit)
due to differences between Danzig and the rest of the band. During this downtime, Only and his brother Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (guitarist in the...
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joined Danzig in opposition to the tax. Von Plauen decided to enforce the assessment. Thorn capitulated without much resistance, while Danzig resisted...
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vocalist Glenn Danzig. Several months later Mercury Records issued a Pere Ubu record on their own Blank Records imprint, unaware that Danzig held a trademark...
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For a list of all Polish-German Wars, see Polish-German Wars. The city of Danzig (Gdańsk) was captured by the State of the Teutonic Order on 13 November...
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total about 45,000 men. Inside Danzig stood 14,400 men under the Prussian commander General Count Friedrich Adolf von Kalkreuth. Napoleon was however...
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1908, he commanded the 36th Division in Danzig. His wife died in 1905, and two years later, he married Leonie von der Osten, who was 22 years old. When...
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Cough/Cool (category Songs written by Glenn Danzig)
recorded in 1987 by Danzig and former Misfits photographer Eerie Von . Danzig used the drum track from the original recording, but Danzig overdubbed guitar...
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Polish Corridor (redirect from Danzig Corridor)
Korridor; Polish: korytarz polski), also known as the Pomeranian Corridor, Danzig Corridor or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia...
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1300, under the auspices of Commander Heinrich von Wilnowe. The castle is located on the southeastern bank of the river Nogat. It was named Marienburg after...
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East Pomeranian offensive (section Siege of Danzig)
on 9 March and replaced by Dietrich von Saucken. The troops of the German 2nd Army withdrew in disarray into Danzig and Gdingen, where the 2nd Belorussian...
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commissioned by Lübeck, head of the Hanseatic League, to captain the ship Peter von Danzig, he chose to become part owner instead of taking pay. In 1473 in the North...
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by Altstadt's Bürgermeister, Andreas Brunau. Based upon the example of Danzig (Gdańsk), Brunau hoped to turn Königsberg into an autonomous city within...
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Hungarian National Bank, Bank of Danzig, and Bank of Greece, as well as comprehensive reforms of the Bulgarian National Bank and Bank of Estonia. Similar...
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Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (German: [joˈʔaxɪm fɔn ˈʁɪbəntʁɔp]; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat...
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a member of the City council of Danzig, he was a Co-founder of the National Liberal Party in 1866 and, next to Max von Forckenbeck, Ludwig Bamberger and...
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Albert Forster (category Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia)
criminal. Under his administration as the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Danzig-West Prussia (the other German-annexed section of occupied Poland aside...
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(Elbląg) and Danzig. Grand Master Paul von Rusdorf was seen to approve the existence of the confederacy, but his successor, Konrad von Erlichshausen...
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Gralath worked on electricity, founded the Danzig Research Society, and repeated the experiments of Ewald Georg von Kleist with the Leyden jar. Gralath improved...
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Günter Grass (category People from the Free City of Danzig)
of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served...
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German-Polish dispute as he wanted a war in 1939 with the Danzig dispute being a mere pretext. Count Hans-Adolf von Moltke, the German ambassador to Poland, had been...
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Corridor from West Pomerania to link with the 3rd Army; the port city of Danzig fell within the first day. By the following day, apprehensions of a strong...
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Sopot (section Free City of Danzig)
village was still being reconstructed and in 1806 the area was sold to the Danzig/Gdańsk merchant Carl Christoph Wegner. However, until 1819 it did not develop...
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