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Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

Index Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (German: Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich, Herzog zu Mecklenburg; 10 October 1873 – 5 August 1969), was a German explorer in Africa, a colonial politician, the elected Duke of the United Baltic Duchy from 5 November to 28 November 1918, and the first president of the National Olympic Committee of West Germany (1949–1951). [1]

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Adolf Friedrich

Adolf Friedrich may refer to.

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Adolfus

Adolfus is a genus of lizards of the family Lacertidae.

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Arthroleptis adolfifriederici

Arthroleptis adolfifriederici is a species of frog in the family Arthroleptidae.

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Bad Doberan

Bad Doberan is a town in the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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Baltic Germans

The Baltic Germans (Deutsch-Balten or Deutschbalten, later Baltendeutsche) are ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia.

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Battle of Chra

The Battle of Chra was fought by British and French troops against German soldiers and paramilitary police in the village of Chra, near the Chra river on 22 August 1914, during the Togoland Campaign of the First World War.

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Beatrix of the Netherlands

Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard,; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal family who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication on 30 April 2013.

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Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg

Princess Woizlawa Feodora Reuss (née Duchess of Mecklenburg, born 17 December 1918) is a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg

Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (Herzog Johann Albrecht zu Mecklenburg; given names John Albert Ernest Constantine Frederick Henry; 8 December 1857 – 16 February 1920) was a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin who served as the regent of two states of the German Empire.

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Edvard Hjelt

Edvard Hjelt (28 June 1855 – 2 July 1921) was a Finnish chemist, politician and a member of the Senate of Finland.

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Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Frederick Francis II (28 February 1823 – 15 April 1883) was a Prussian officer and Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 7 March 1842 until 15 April 1883.

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Gaourang II of Bagirmi

Abd ar-Rahman Gaourang II (also Gaorang or Gwaranga – 1918) was Mbang of Bagirmi from 1885 to 1918.

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German Olympic Sports Confederation

German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund) (DOSB), was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the Deutscher Sportbund (DSB), and the Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland (NOK) which dates back to 1895, the year it was founded and recognized as NOC by the IOC.

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Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line

Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (Heinrich XXVII Fürst Reuß jüngere Linie; 10 November 185821 November 1928) was the last reigning Prince Reuss Younger Line from 1913 to 1918.

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History of Latvia

The history of Latvia began around 9000 BC with the end of the last glacial period in northern Europe.

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House of Mecklenburg

The House of Mecklenburg, also known as Nikloting, is a North German dynasty that ruled until 1918 in the Mecklenburg region, being among the longest-ruling families of Europe.

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Karin Elisabeth von Schaper

Karin Elisabeth, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (née von Schaper, Karin Elisabeth Henriette Lori Gudela; 31 January 1920 – 26 January 2012) was a member by marriage of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Karl Grünberg

Karl Grünberg (died 1921, Rostock) was a German entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.

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Karl Ritter von Halt

Dr Karl Ritter von Halt, born Karl Ferdinand Halt (2 June 1891 – 5 August 1964) was a sport official in Nazi Germany and in the German Federal Republic.

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Kingdom of Finland (1918)

The Kingdom of Finland (Suomen kuningaskunta; Konungariket Finland) was an abortive attempt to establish a monarchy in Finland following Finland's independence from Russia.

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Line of succession to the former Mecklenburg thrones

The line of succession to the Mecklenburg thrones was an ordered list of people eligible to succeed to the grand ducal thrones of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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List of colonial governors of Togo

This article lists the colonial governors of Togo.

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List of coupled cousins

This is a list of prominent individuals who have been romantically or maritally coupled with a cousin.

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List of Knights of the Order of the Elephant

These are the Knights of the Order of the Elephant (since 1900).

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List of Knights of the Royal Order of the Seraphim

These are the Knights (men) and Members (women) of the Royal Order of the Seraphim.

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Ober Ost

Ober Ost is short for Oberbefehlshaber der gesamten Deutschen Streitkräfte im Osten, German for "Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East" during World War I. It also has an implied double meaning, as in its own right, "Ober Ost" translates into "Upper East," which describes its geographic region in reference to the German Empire.

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Prince Heinrich I Reuss of Köstritz

Prince Heinrich I Reuss of Köstritz (Heinrich I Prinz Reuß zu Köstritz; 8 October 191010 March 1982) was son of Prince Heinrich XXXIV Reuss of Köstritz and member of the House of Reuss.

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Prince Heinrich VIII Reuss of Köstritz

Prince Heinrich VIII Reuss of Köstritz (Heinrich VIII Prinz Reuß zu Köstritz; born 30 August 1944) is a son of Prince Heinrich I Reuss of Köstritz, and is a member of the House of Reuss.

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Princess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Rossla

Princess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Rossla (Elisabeth zu Stolberg-Roßla; 23 July 1885, Roßla -- 16 October 1969, Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein) was the second wife of Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg, Regent of the Duchy of Brunswick.

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Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (Prinzessin Elise Victoria Feodora Sophie Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg; 4 September 1864 - 18 March 1929) was Princess Reuss Younger Line as the wife of Heinrich XXVII.

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Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (Prinzessin Marie von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt; 29 January 1850 – 22 April 1922) was the consort and third wife of Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Schwerin

Schwerin (or; Mecklenburgian: Swerin; Polish: Swarzyn or Zwierzyn; Latin: Suerina) is the capital and second-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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Suzerainty

Suzerainty (and) is a back-formation from the late 18th-century word suzerain, meaning upper-sovereign, derived from the French sus (meaning above) + -erain (from souverain, meaning sovereign).

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Togoland

Togoland was a German protectorate in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana, approximately 77,355 km2 (29,867 sq mi) in size.

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Togoland Campaign

The Togoland Campaign (9–26 August 1914) was a French and British invasion of the German colony of Togoland in west Africa, which began the West African Campaign of the First World War.

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk (Brześć Litewski; since 1945 Brest), after two months of negotiations.

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United Baltic Duchy

The proposed United Baltic Duchy, (Vereinigtes Baltisches Herzogtum, Balti Hertsogiriik, Apvienotā Baltijas hercogiste) also known as the Grand Duchy of Livonia, was a state proposed by the Baltic German nobility and exiled Russian nobility after the Russian Revolution and German occupation of the Courland, Livonian, and Estonian governorates of the Russian Empire.

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Von Vladimiroff

The von Vladimiroff (Russian: Владимиров) family are a cadet branch of the von Biron family, the last rulers of the Duchy of Courland and Semigalia (German: Kurland, Latvian: Kurzeme).

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Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach

Prince Wilhelm of Urach, Count of Württemberg, 2nd Duke of Urach (Wilhelm Karl Florestan Gero Crescentius; German Fürst Wilhelm von Urach, Graf von Württemberg, 2. Herzog von Urach; 30 May 1864 – 24 March 1928), was a German prince who was elected in June 1918 as King of Lithuania, with the regnal name of Mindaugas II.

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1873 in Germany

Events in the year 1873 in Germany.

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1912 in Germany

Events in the year 1912 in Germany.

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1913 in Germany

Events in the year 1913 in Germany.

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1914 in Germany

Events in the year 1914 in Germany.

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1969

The year is associated with the first manned landing on the Moon (Apollo 11).

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1969 in Germany

Events in the year 1969 in Germany.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Adolf_Friedrich_of_Mecklenburg

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