• Thumbnail for Gotthard Heinrici
    armies advancing from the Vistula River. Heinrici was born in 1886 at Gumbinnen in East Prussia, the son of a minister of the (Protestant) Evangelical...
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  • Thumbnail for Landkreis Heydekrug
    Prussia, located in Lithuania Minor. It was part of Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen. The seat was in Heydekrug (modern Šilutė). In 1913, Karkeln and surrounding...
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  • Thumbnail for Kreis Goldap
    September 1818 the new Goldap district was formed in Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen from parts of the old Insterburg district. This included the parishes...
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    population was Protestant. Kreis Mohrungen had 35 rural municipalities and 3 towns: In the German Empire, Kreis Mohrungen together with Kreis Preußisch Holland...
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    Mohrungen (Ermland) Lithuanian chamber department at Gumbinnen (Gusev) with the districts of: Gumbinnen Insterburg Memel Olecko Ragnit Seehesten (Sensburg)...
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  • Thumbnail for Magnus von Braun (senior)
    Department of Interior and became the President of the Governorate of Gumbinnen. He was dismissed from the civil service after the Kapp Putsch in 1920...
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  • Warmia-Masuria Goldap Landkreis Goldap 12 786 Gołdap Warmia-Masuria Gumbinnen Landkreis Gumbinnen 24 534 Gusev Kaliningrad Guttstadt Landkreis Heilsberg Dobre...
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    (district captainship) in Saxony, Kreis (district) in Bavaria and Württemberg (not to be confused with the present-day Kreis or Landkreis districts), and province...
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  • Thumbnail for Kreis Angerburg
    from the northern part of the Seehesten district in Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen. Since 1871, the province of Prussia (and thus also the district of Angerburg)...
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    58.1 Heydekrug Gumbinnen 16,502 71.9 18,112 71.8 22,475 68.7 Insterburg Gumbinnen 10,108 25.0 9,537 18.3 5,399 9.3 Niederung Gumbinnen 18,366 49.1 20...
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    Paul von Rennenkampf (category People from Kreis Wiek)
    1st Army in the invasion of East Prussia and won an early victory at Gumbinnen in late August 1914, but was relieved of command after defeats at Tannenberg...
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    Napoleonic Wars, the town became the seat of Insterburg District within the Gumbinnen Region. Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly died at Insterburg in 1818 on...
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  • Thumbnail for 1920 East Prussian plebiscite
    precinct comprised all the Allenstein Region plus the Oletzko District (Gumbinnen Government Region). According to Jerzy Minakowski, the area of the plebiscite...
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  • Thumbnail for Lithuania Minor
    Ragainė (Ragnit), Šilokarčema (Heydekrug), renamed to Šilutė, Gumbinė (Gumbinnen), Įsrutis (Insterburg), Stalupėnai (Stallupönen). The territory, which...
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  • Thumbnail for Bundesstraße 1
    Berlin and Königsberg in 1828, reaching the East Prussian terminus at Gumbinnen (present-day Gusev, Russia) in 1835. In 1932 the major highways of the...
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  • Anton Hafner (category People from Alb-Donau-Kreis)
    Württemberg, German Empire Died 17 October 1944(1944-10-17) (aged 26) near Gumbinnen, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany Cause of death Killed in action Allegiance...
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