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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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