William Tell (redirect from Wilhelm Tell)
mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Austrian dukes of the House of Habsburg positioned...
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Otto Karl Gessler (or Geßler) (6 February 1875 – 24 March 1955) was a liberal German politician during the Weimar Republic. From 1910 until 1914, he was...
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Friedrich Leopold Graf von Gessler (or Geßler; (24 June 1688 – 22 August 1762) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and one of Frederick the Great's most...
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pushed out of the government in 1932 by Kurt von Schleicher, who was working on a pact with the Nazis. Wilhelm Groener was born in Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom...
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press publicized the transgression. Reichswehr Minister Otto Gessler told President von Hindenburg that Seeckt must resign or he would have to resign...
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William Tell (play) (redirect from Wilhelm Tell (play))
Petermann Etterlin and Johannes Stumpf. The fateful enmity of the tyrant Gessler, Governor of the Swiss cantons, and William Tell, an obscure huntsman,...
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General Erich von Falkenhayn as Chief of the Great General Staff. Ultimately, he and his deputy, General Erich Ludendorff, exploited Emperor Wilhelm II's immense...
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Tell Monument (section The Legend of Wilhelm Tell)
base. Wilhelm Tell is credited with having played a central role for the foundation of Switzerland. After Tell shot the Austria reeve Albrecht Gessler, a...
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by Paul von Hindenburg. The first Reichswehr Minister was Gustav Noske, who was replaced by Otto Gessler after the Kapp Putsch in 1920. Wilhelm Groener...
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throughout Germany and transferred executive power to Minister of Defense Otto Gessler. Kahr refused to carry out his orders, such as banning the Nazi Party newspaper...
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Karl von Riecke 1898–1908: Karl von Zeyer 1908–1914: Wilhelm von Gessler 1914–1918: Theodor von Pistorius Kingdom of Württemberg Ashton, Bodie A. (12 January...
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hat that the newly appointed Austrian Vogt, Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with...
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candidate for Reich Presidency in 1925 DDP Ministers Wilhelm Külz (left, Interior) and Otto Gessler (Defense), 1926 One of the political leaders of the...
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William Tell (1934 film) (redirect from Wilhelm Tell (1934 film))
Conrad Veidt as Gessler Emmy Göring as Hedwig Tell (credited as Emmy Sonnemann) Olaf Bach as Arnold von Melchthal Eugen Klöpfer as Heinrich von Melchtal Maly...
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resignation of Reichswehrminister Otto Gessler on 19 January 19, 1928. On 30 September, Gessler's successor Wilhelm Groener, dismissed the chief of the Reichsmarine...
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1848–1848: Joseph von Linden 1848–1849: Gustav von Duvernoy 1849–1850: Johannes von Schlayer 1850–1864: Joseph von Linden 1864–1870: Ernst von Geßler 1870–1872:...
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William Tell (1923 film) (redirect from Wilhelm Tell (1923 film))
premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. Hans Marr as Wilhelm Tell Conrad Veidt as Hermann Gessler Erich Kaiser-Titz as Emperor Albrecht I Emil Rameau as...
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slain by Konrad von Baumgarten of Altzellen for attempted rape of his wife. Werner Stauffacher of Schwyz was threatened by reeve Gessler because he had...
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Philipp Karl von Alvensleben [de] (1745–1802) 1787–1792: Karl Friedrich von Gessler (1753–1829) 1792–1794: Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim (1767–1812)...
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Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow 1682 Dietrich von Dohna 1686 Joachim Friedrich von Wreech, 1714 Peter von Blanckensee, 1733 Friedrich Leopold von Gessler, 1758 Johann...
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Wilhelm Stoph (9 July 1914 – 13 April 1999) was a German politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic...
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bassoonist Albrecht Gessler, German bailiff Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, German miniaturist and woodcutter Albrecht Gustav von Manstein, (1805–1877)...
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Ministers Hoffmann, von Kahr and Lerchenfeld-Köfering. In 1922/1923, he was a State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery under Wilhelm Cuno, and from 30 November...
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Joachim von Winterfeldt-Mencken, the DRK became a national organization focusing on social welfare. In April 1933, Nazi Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick...
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1925 German presidential election (category Paul von Hindenburg)
right-wing refused to support Simons and Wilhelm Marx, while the DDP refused to support Jarres. Otto Gessler was proposed as a compromise candidate, but...
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Robert Freitag as Wilhelm Tell Wolfgang Rottsieper as Gessler Alfred Schlageter as Walter Fürst Hannes Schmidhauser as Arnold von Melchtal Leopold Biberti...
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Nathaniel Gorham, then-President of the Continental Congress, or Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, the Prussian general who served in the Continental Army, suggested...
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August Ferdinand von Wegerer Pommersches Füsilier-Regiment Nr. 34, Oberst Wilhelm von Schmeling 8th (Rhenish) Cuirassiers "Count Geßler" Westfälisches Ulanen-Regiment...
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Wilhelm Külz (18 February 1875 – 10 April 1948) was a German liberal politician of the National Liberal Party, the German Democratic Party (DDP) and later...
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unter der Leitung von August Wilhelm Iffland, Karl Grafen von Brühl, Wilhelm Grafen von Redern und Karl Theodor von Küstner für die Zeit von 1796-1851, Schauer...
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