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German nobility

Index German nobility

The German nobility (deutscher Adel) and royalty were status groups which until 1919 enjoyed certain privileges relative to other people under the laws and customs in the German-speaking area. [1]

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Abdication of Wilhelm II

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia in November 1918.

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Abolition of monarchy

The abolition of monarchy involves the ending of monarchical elements in the government of a country.

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Above Suspicion (1943 film)

Above Suspicion is a 1943 American spy film starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray.

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Adel

Adel may refer to.

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Adolf von Donndorf

Adolf von Donndorf (16 February 1835 – 20 December 1916) was a German sculptor.

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Adolph II of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Adolf Ludwig Karl Mouritz, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (3 June 1789 in Saarbrucken, Nassau-Saarbrucken - 10 December 1812 in Vilnius, Russian Empire), was a Prince of Nassau-Saarbrucken, Count of Ottweiler, and a Lieutenant in the Army of Württemberg.

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Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George; born Prince Alexander of Teck; 14 April 1874 – 16 January 1957), was a British Army commander and major-general who served as the fourth Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since the Canadian Confederation.

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Amsberg

Amsberg (von Amsberg, van Amsberg) is the name of a German noble family from Mecklenburg.

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Andrew Von Etter

Andrew "The Barron" Von Etter (1940–1967) was a Boston mobster and an associate of loanshark Edward “Wimpy” Bennett and brothers James "Jimmy the Bear" Flemmi and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.

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Anna of Brandenburg

Anna of Brandenburg (27 August 1487 – 3 May 1514) was a German noblewoman.

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Arthur von Weinberg

Arthur von Weinberg (11 August 1860 in Frankfurt am Main – 20 March 1943 in the Theresienstadt Ghetto) was a German chemist and industrialist.

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Austrian nobility

The Austrian nobility (österreichischer Adel) is a status group that was officially abolished in 1919 after the fall of Austria-Hungary.

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Šluknov

Šluknov (Schluckenau) is the northernmost town of the Czech Republic in its Ústí nad Labem Region.

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Baron Munchausen

Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia.

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Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia

Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe.

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Baron of Berenberg-Gossler

Baron of Berenberg-Gossler (Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler) is a title in the German nobility, specifically the nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia, created in 1910 for banker Johann von Berenberg-Gossler of the Hamburg Hanseatic Berenberg-Gossler family.

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Baronet

A baronet (or; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess (or; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

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Battle of Corbach

The Battle of Corbach, or Korbach, a Hanseatic town of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, was fought on 10 July 1760 during the Seven Years' War.

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Battle of Kloster Kampen

The Battle of Kloster Kampen (or Kloster Kamp, or Campen) was a tactical French victory over a British and allied army in the Seven Years' War.

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Blumenthal family

The von Blumenthal family are Lutheran and Roman Catholic German nobility, originally from Brandenburg-Prussia.

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Boeselager

Boeselager is the name of a German noble family from Magdeburg.

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Breandán Ó hEithir

Breandán Ó hEithir (18 January 1930 – 26 October 1990) was an Irish writer and broadcaster.

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Briefadel

Briefadel (in German) or brevadel (in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) are persons and families who have been ennobled by letters patent.

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Burgmann

From the 12th century in central Europe, a Burgmann (plural: Burgmannen or modern term Burgmänner, Latin: oppidanus, castrensus) was a knight ministeriales or member of the nobility who was obligated to guard and defend castles.

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Carl Hildebrand von Canstein

Carl or Karl Hildebrand von Canstein (4 August 1667 – 19 August 1719), Baron or Count of Canstein, was a German aristocrat who founded the Canstein Bible Institute (Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt) in Halle, Brandenburg-Prussia, the first modern Bible society.

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Caroline von Wolzogen

Caroline von Wolzogen, born Caroline von Lengefeld (February 3, 1763, Rudolstadt – January 11, 1847, Jena), was a German writer in the Weimar Classicism circle.

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Cecily von Ziegesar

Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar (born June 27, 1970) is an American author best known for the young adult ''Gossip Girl'' series of novels.

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Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg und Fürst von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) (9 October 1735 – 10 November 1806), was ruler of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and a military leader.

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Charlotte von Lengefeld

Charlotte Luise Antoinette von Schiller, born Charlotte von Lengefeld (22 November 1766 – 9 July 1826) was the wife of German poet Friedrich Schiller.

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Christian Friedrich von Otto

Christian Friedrich von Otto (26 October 1758 – 8 September 1836) was a Württemberger official and politician.

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Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg

Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg (30 June 1653, Bingenheim – 16 May 1722, Grabow) was a German noblewoman.

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Christoph Caspar von Blumenthal

Christoph Caspar von Blumenthal (1637–1689) was a German nobleman.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and member of the Bavarian noble family von Stauffenberg, who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power.

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Clemens August Graf von Galen

The Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946) was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Coronet

In English, a coronet is a small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring.

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Corps Borussia Bonn

The Corps Borussia Bonn is a German Student Corps at the University of Bonn.

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County of Castell

Castell was a county of northern Bavaria, Germany, ruling a string of territories in the historical region of Franconia, both east and west of Würzburg.

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Curt Christoph von Koppelow

Curt Christoph von Koppelow or Cort Christopher von Caplau (variants: Koppelöu, Kaplan, Coplou, Coppelouwe) (1624–1705) was a German-Norwegian nobleman and officer in the Dano-Norwegian army.

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Curt von Bardeleben

Curt von Bardeleben (4 March 1861 in Berlin – in Berlin) was a German chess master, journalist, and member of the German nobility.

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Dönhoff

Dönhoff, (Polish: Denhoff, sometimes also Doenhoff) was a noble German family, first mentioned in 1282, from the County of Mark in Westphalia; a branch moved to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th century and became recognized as szlachta (Polish nobility), but later mostly served the Prussian government.

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Denhof coat of arms

Denhof - is a Polish coat of arms.

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Der Handschuh

"Der Handschuh" ("The Glove") is a ballad by Friedrich Schiller, written in 1797, the year of his friendly ballad competition ("", "Year of the Ballads") with Goethe.

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Deutsches Requiem (short story)

"Deutsches Requiem" is a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges.

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Dodo von Knyphausen

Dodo von Knyphausen (1641–1698) was a German nobleman from the Duchy of Prussia in the service of Brandenburg-Prussia during the reigns of Electors Frederick William and Frederick III.

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Dubislav Gneomar von Natzmer

Dubislav Gneomar von Natzmer (1654– 20 April 1739) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and a confidant of the House of Hohenzollern.

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Duke of Teck

The Duke of Teck was, in medieval times, a title borne by the head of a branch line of the German ducal House of Zähringen from 1187 to 1439, known historically as the first House of Teck.

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Eberhard von Danckelmann

Eberhard von Danckelmann (23 November 1643 – 31 March 1722) was a German official who served as Prime Minister of Brandenburg-Prussia from 1692-97.

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Edler

Edler was until 1919 the lowest rank of nobility in Austria-Hungary and Germany, just beneath a Ritter (hereditary knight), but above untitled nobles, who used only the nobiliary particle von before their surname.

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Eduard von Knorr

Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (8 March 1840 – 17 February 1920) was a German admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine who helped establish the German colonial empire.

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Erich Gritzner

Erich Gritzner (7 April 1874, in Berlin – 10 November 1963, in Dresden) was a German heraldrist, genealogist and sigillographer, known for his research of German nobility.

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Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen

Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (Ernst Leopold Victor Carl August Joseph Emich, Furst zu Leiningen) (Amorbach, 9 November 1830 – Amorbach 5 April 1904) was a German nobleman.

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Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (born 9 July 1959, in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German economist, professor at the of the University of Mannheim, and has been president (Rektor) of Mannheim University since October 2012.

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False titles of nobility

False titles of nobility are claimed titles of social rank that have been fabricated or assumed by an individual or family without recognition by the current or past government of a country in which titles of nobility exist or once existed.

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Fatal Fury 2

No description.

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Fürst

Fürst (female form Fürstin, plural Fürsten; from Old High German furisto, "the first", a translation of the Latin princeps) is a German word for a ruler and is also a princely title.

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Fürst von Bismarck

Fürst von Bismarck is a title of German nobility.

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Felix Aderca

Felix Aderca or F. Aderca (born Froim-Zelig (Froim-Zeilic) Aderca,, in Realitatea Evreiască, Nr. 280-281 (1080-1081), August–September 2007 Boris Marian,, in Realitatea Evreiască, Nr. 292-293 (1092-1093), March–April 2008 also known as Zelicu Froim Adercu, biographical entry at the; retrieved March 1, 2010 or Froim Aderca; March 13, 1891 – December 12, 1962), was a Romanian novelist, playwright, poet, journalist and critic, noted as a representative of rebellious modernism in the context of Romanian literature.

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Finck von Finckenstein

Finck von Finckenstein is a noble family classified as Uradel (German for 'ancient nobility').

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Florian Geyer

Florian Geyer von Giebelstadt (c. 1490 – 10 June 1525) was a German nobleman, diplomat, and knight.

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Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt

Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (born Hans Georg Robert Lichtenberg; June 18, 1943) is a German-American entrepreneur best known as the last husband and widower of the late film actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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Free Conservative Party

The Free Conservative Party (Freikonservative Partei, FKP) was a moderate right-wing political party in Prussia and the German Empire, which emerged from the Conservatives in the Prussian Landtag in 1866.

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Freiherr

Freiherr (male, abbreviated as Frhr.), Freifrau (his wife, abbreviated as Frfr., literally "free lord" or "free lady") and Freiin (his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire, and in its various successor states, including Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, etc.

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow

Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow (17 December 1669 – 28 March 1758) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and Governor of Wesel.

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Fugger

Fugger is a German family that was a historically prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists.

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Galen family

von Galen is an old, noble, Westphalian family, historically Roman Catholic, from the County of Mark.

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Gans family

The Gans family is a prominent German family of industrialists and philanthropists from Frankfurt am Main.

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Gans zu Putlitz

The Gans Edle Herren zu Putlitz (Edle Herren.

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Geneall

Geneall.net is a free-to-use public internet database on family history and genealogy, mainly concerning Royalty and Aristocracy around the world.

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Georg von Boeselager

Georg von Boeselager (25 August 1915 – 27 August 1944) was a German nobleman and an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, who led rear security operations in the Army Group Centre Rear Area on the Eastern Front, calling for harsh measures, including shooting of all males in "gang-infested areas".

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German Conservative Party

The German Conservative Party (Deutschkonservative Partei, DKP) was a right-wing political party of the German Empire, founded in 1876.

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German name

Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (Vorname, plural Vornamen) and a surname (Nachname, Familienname).

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Graf

Graf (male) or Gräfin (female) is a historical title of the German nobility, usually translated as "count".

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Grand Burgher

Grand Burgher or Grand Burgheress (from German: Großbürger, Großbürgerin) is a specific conferred or inherited title of medieval German origin and legally defined preeminent status granting exclusive constitutional privileges and legal rights (German: Großbürgerrecht),Titel: Lehrbuch des teutschen Privatrechts; Landrecht und Lehnrecht enthaltend.

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Groschlag

Groschlag was a family of German nobility of the County of Mark, extinct in 1799.

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Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck

Guido Georg Friedrich Erdmann Heinrich Adalbert Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck, from 1901 Prince (Fürst) Henckel von Donnersmarck (born 10 August 1830 in Breslau, died 19 December 1916 in Berlin) was a German nobleman, industrial magnate, member of the House Henckel von Donnersmarck and one of the richest men of his time.

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Gustav Plaut

Gustav Plaut was born on the 26th February 1824, the fifth child and third son of Herz C Plaut, and Caroline (née Blach), from Reichensachsen (near Eschwege) on the border between Thuringia and Hesse.

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Hans Meinhard von Schönberg

Count Hans Meinhard von Schönberg auf Wesel (German: Graf Hans Meinhard von Schönberg auf Wesel) (August 28, 1582 – August 3, 1616) was a German nobleman and soldier, who served as hofmeister of Frederick V, Elector Palatine.

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Hans von Koester

Hans Ludwig Raimund von Koester (29 April 1844 – 21 February 1928) was a German naval officer who served in the Prussian Navy and later in the Imperial German Navy.

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Heinz Gollwitzer

Heinz Gollwitzer (30 January 1917 – 26 December 1999) was a German historian.

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Heribert von Larisch

Heribert von Larisch (18 July 1894 – 16 May 1972) was a German general during World War II.

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Hermann, Prince of Wied

Hermann, Prince of Wied (Wilhelm Hermann Karl Fürst von Wied; 22 May 18145 March 1864) was a German nobleman, elder son of Johann August Karl, Prince of Wied.

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Herzog

Herzog is a German hereditary title held by one who rules a territorial duchy, exercises feudal authority over an estate called a duchy, or possesses a right by law or tradition to be referred to by the ducal title.

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Hochgeboren

Hochgeboren ("high-born"; illustrissimus)) is a form of address for the titled members of the German and Austrian nobility, ranking just below the sovereign and mediatised dynasties. The actual address is "Euer" Hochgeboren. It is the proper form of address for counts (Grafen) that are neither heirs to mediatised families of the Holy Roman Empire (counts of the Holy Roman Empire or Reichsgrafen) nor families who have been bequeathed higher predicate by the Emperor. By courtesy, barons (Freiherr) belonging to old houses of the Uradel are also addressed in the same way. The correct term for immediate counts (Reichsgrafen) is Erlaucht ("Illustrious Highness"), while the proper form of address for princes (Fürsten) and dukes (Herzöge) is Durchlaucht ("Serene Highness"). In The Netherlands Hooggeboren (High-born) is used to address Dukes, Margraves, Counts or Viscounts.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium; Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a multi-ethnic but mostly German complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.

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House of Falkenstein (Bavaria)

The counts of Falkenstein (from 1125 referred to as counts of Falkenstein-Neuburg) were a medieval noble dynasty from Bavaria.

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House of Fürstenberg (Westphalia)

Fürstenberg is the name of a German noble family of Westphalia, which descended from Hermannus de Vorstenberg.

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House of Metternich

Metternich is a German noble family originating in the Rhineland.

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House of Schwarzenberg

Schwarzenberg is a Czech (Bohemian) and German (Franconian) aristocratic family, and it was one of the most prominent European noble houses.

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House of Zähringen

Zähringen is an old German noble family in Swabia, which founded a large number of cities in the area that is today Switzerland and the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Huosi family

The Huosi were one of the Uradel noble families in the stem duchy of Bavaria, during the reign of the Agilolfing dynasty.

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Iacob Heraclid

Iacob Heraclid (or Eraclid; Ἰάκωβος Ἡρακλείδης; 1527 – November 5, 1563), born Basilicò and also known as Iacobus Heraclides, Heraclid Despotul, or Despot Vodă ("Despot the Voivode"), was a Greek Maltese soldier, adventurer and intellectual, who reigned as Prince of Moldavia from November 1561 to November 1563.

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Imperial Count

Imperial Count (Reichsgraf) was a title in the Holy Roman Empire.

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Irina Mikhailovna Raievskya

Irina Mikhailovna Raievskya (18 August 1892 - 22 January 1955), (Раевская, Ирина Михайловна.), was Duchess of Mecklenburg, her second husband George, Duke of Mecklenburg (Georg Herzog zu Mecklenburg) was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1934 until his death 1963.

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Jürgen Christoph von Koppelow

Jürgen Christoph von Koppelow or Jørgen Christopher von Koppelau (variants: Koppelöu, Kaplan, Coplou, Coppelouwe, Kobbelow) (1684–1770) was a Norwegian nobleman and officer that fought in the Great Northern War on behalf of Denmark–Norway.

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Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow

Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow (1637 – 26 December 1690) was a general and statesman of Brandenburg-Prussia.

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Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal

Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal (1606–1657) was a German nobleman.

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Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau

Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau (German: Joachim Heinrich Maria Carl Rudolf Franz Xaver Joseph Antonius Christophorus Hubertus Alfons Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau; 4 February 1929 in Glauchau, Saxony – 29 September 1998 in Passau, Bavaria) was the nominal successor head of the former mediatised German Counts of Schönburg-Glauchau until 1945.

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Johannes von Leysen

Johannes von Leysen (also Leyssen, Laissen, Layß, Jan z Łajs; 1310 – 1388) was the first mayor of Allenstein (Polish: Olsztyn), Warmia in Prussia (now in Poland) in 1353.

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Junker

Junker (Junker, Scandinavian: Junker, Jonkheer, Yunker) is a noble honorific, derived from Middle High German Juncherre, meaning "young nobleman"Duden; Meaning of Junker, in German.

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Junker (Prussia)

The Junkers were members of the landed nobility in Prussia.

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Kaiser

Kaiser is the German word for "emperor".

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Karl von Eberstein

Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Eberstein (14 January 1894 – 10 February 1979) was a member of the German nobility, early member of the Nazi Party, the SA, and the SS (introducing Reinhard Heydrich to Heinrich Himmler in July 1931).

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Karl von Spreti

Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti (21 May 1907 – 5 April 1970) was a German diplomat.

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Karoline of Wartensleben

Countess Karoline Friederike Cäcilie Klothilde von Wartensleben (6 April 1844 in Mannheim – 10 July 1905 in Detmold) was a German noblewoman.

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Ketteler

Ketteler (also Kettler) is the name of a German noble family that originated in Westphalia.

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Kilchberg (Tübingen)

Kilchberg is a village within the administrative district of Tübingen.

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Konrad von Thüngen

Konrad von Thüngen (c. 1466 – 16 June 1540) was the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg from 1519 until his death in 1540.

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Lauretta of Saarbrücken

Lauretta of Saarbrücken (died 1271), was a sovereign countess regnant of Saarbrücken from 1233 to 1271.

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Leiningen family

Leiningen is the name of an old German noble family whose lands lay principally in Alsace, Lorraine and the Palatinate.

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Leonrod

Leonrod may refer to.

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Leopold George, Hereditary Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Leopold George, Hereditary Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (25 October 1654 in Bingenheim – 26 February 1675 in Schleswig-Holstein), was a German nobleman and the heir apparent to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg from his birth.

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List of Gdańsk aristocratic families

This is a list of aristocratic families of the Royal City of Gdańsk (German: Danzig).

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List of German monarchs in 1918

The term German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich) commonly refers to Germany, from its foundation as a unified nation-state on January 18, 1871, until the abdication of its last Kaiser, Wilhelm II, on November 9, 1918.

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Lords of Thannhausen

The Lords of Thannhausen are an old and still existing German noble family with the rank of Freiherr (Baron).

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Louise Caroline of Hochberg

Louise Caroline von Hochberg, born Geyer von Geyersberg, from 1787 Baroness von Hochberg, from 1796 Countess of Hochberg (26 May 1768 in Karlsruhe – 23 June 1820, Karlsruhe) was the morganatic second wife of the Margrave and later Grand Duke Charles Frederick of Baden.

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Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay

Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737–1820) (after adopting Orthodoxy Андрей Львович) was a poet of the Enlightenment, librarian, secretary, academician and the President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect.

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Manfred Freiherr von Killinger

Manfred Freiherr von Killinger (14 July 1886 – 2 September 1944) was a German naval officer, Freikorps leader, military writer and Nazi politician.

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Marcus Prinz von Anhalt

Marcus Prinz Von Anhalt (born Marcus Frank Adolf Eberhardt; 20 December 1966) is a German businessman and nightclub owner, whose luxurious lifestyle results in some coverage in the German yellow press.

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Margraviate of Brandenburg

The Margraviate of Brandenburg (Markgrafschaft Brandenburg) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe.

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Maria von Maltzan

Maria Helene Françoise Izabel Gräfin von Maltzan, Freiin zu Wartenberg und Penzlin (March 25, 1909 – November 12, 1997) was an aristocrat who, as part of the German Resistance against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, saved the lives of many Jewish people in Berlin.

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Mary of the Divine Heart

Sister Mary of the Divine Heart (Münster, September 8, 1863 – Porto, June 8, 1899), born Maria Droste zu Vischering, was a person of old German nobility (Uradel) and Roman Catholic nun of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, best known for having influenced Pope Leo XIII to make the consecration of the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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Masaaki Hatsumi

, formerly Yoshiaki Hatsumi, is the founder of the Bujinkan Organization and is the current Togakure-ryū Soke (Grandmaster).

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Max von Stephanitz

Max Emil Friedrich von Stephanitz (December 30, 1864 – 22 April 1936) was a German dog breeder who is credited with having developed the German Shepherd Dog breed as it is currently known, set guidelines for the breed standard, and was the first president of the Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde (S.V.).

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Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen

Maximilian Friedrich Wilhelm August Leopold von Schwartzkoppen (24 February 1850 – 8 January 1917) was a Prussian military officer.

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Mediatized Houses

The Mediatized Houses (Standesherren) were ruling princely and comital-ranked houses which were mediatized in the Holy Roman Empire during the period of 1803–15 as part of German mediatization, and were later recognised in 1825-29 by the German ruling houses as possessing considerable rights and rank.

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Melchior von Lichtenfels

Melchior von Lichtenfels (c.1517–1575) was the Prince-Bishop of Basel from 1554 to 1575.

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Monarchy of Liechtenstein

The Prince Regnant of Liechtenstein (German: Fürst von Liechtenstein) is the monarch and head of state of Liechtenstein.

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Moritz Dobschutz

Moritz J. Dobschutz, born as Moritz Julius von Dobschütz (* March 20, 1831 in Rheine, Westphalia, Germany; † June 24, 1913 in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, United States), member of German nobility, immigrated 1856 into the USA and became a very prosperous merchant in Belleville.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class in aristocracy, normally ranked immediately under royalty, that possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in a society and with membership thereof typically being hereditary.

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Oer

Oer is the name of a German noble family from Oer-Erkenschwick, Westphalia.

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Order of the Red Eagle

The Order of the Red Eagle (Roter Adlerorden) was an order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Pfandherr

In German nobility, a Pfandherr (Pledge Lord) was a creditor, mostly of the lower nobility (Niederer Adel), who lent money to a noble higher in the feudal hierarchy, and as security received the usage of a territory belonging to the debtor, which was then known as a Pfandherrschaft (pledge lordship).

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Pfuel

The German ancient noble family of Pfuel (also Pfuhl or Phull) arrived in Brandenburg in the year 926 and later widened their influence to Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Württemberg, Westphalia, Eastern Europe and Sweden.

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Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (14 March 1418 – 19 March 1492 in Mainz) was Count of Nassau in Weilburg and shared briefly the regency of the County of Saarbrücken.

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Philipp I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Count Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg (1368 – 2 July 1429) was Count of Nassau in Weilburg, Count of Saarbrücken and Seigneur of Commercy Château bas in 1371–1429.

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Prince Augustus William of Prussia

Augustus William of Prussia (German: August Wilhelm; 9 August 1722 – 12 June 1758) was Prince of Prussia and a younger brother and general of Frederick II.

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Prince Claus of the Netherlands

Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg (German: Klaus-Georg Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Gerd von Amsberg; 6 September 1926 – 6 October 2002), was the husband of Queen Beatrix, and the Prince Consort of the Netherlands from Beatrix's ascension in 1980 until his death in 2002.

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Prince Louis of Battenberg

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, (24 May 1854 – 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German nobleman related to the British royal family.

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Princess Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg

Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg (Paris, 6 March 1760 – Sigmaringen, 17 October 1841) was a daughter of Prince Philip Joseph of Salm-Kyrburg (the first prince of Salm-Kyrburg) and Princess Maria Thérèse de Hornes, eldest daughter and heiress of Maximilian, Prince of Hornes.

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Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, (born Elisabeth Margarete Maria Anna Beatriz Prinzessin von Thurn und Taxis, on 24 March 1982 in Regensburg) is a German journalist, author, and member of the German princely House of Thurn und Taxis.

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Prussian Army

The Royal Prussian Army (Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Prussian House of Lords

The Prussian House of Lords (Preußisches Herrenhaus) in Berlin was the upper house of the Preußischer Landtag, the parliament of Prussia from 1850 to 1918.

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Raoul II of Clermont

Raoul II/III of Clermont-Nesle (c. 1245 – Kortrijk, July 11, 1302) was Seigneur (Lord) of Nesle in Picardy (de), Viscount of Châteaudun (de), Grand Chamberlain of France and Constable of France.

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Rheinstein Castle

Rheinstein Castle (Burg Rheinstein) is a castle near the town of Trechtingshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Richard Reid Rogers

Richard Reid Rogers (December 4, 1867 - November 10, 1949) was a prominent United States lawyer, specializing in transit law.

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Ritter

Ritter (German for "knight") is a designation used as a title of nobility in German-speaking areas.

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Royal and noble ranks

Traditional rank amongst European royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Royal family

A royal family is the immediate family of a king or queen regnant, and sometimes his or her extended family.

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Rundling

A Rundling is a form of circular village, mainly in Germany, typical of settlements in the Germanic-Slav contact zone in the Early Medieval period.

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Süddeutsche Monatshefte

Süddeutsche Monatshefte ("South German Monthly", also credited as Süddeutscher Monatshefte) was a German magazine published in Munich between January 1904 and September 1936.

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Serene Highness

His/Her Serene Highness (abbreviation: HSH, oral address: Your Serene Highness) is a style used today by the sovereign families of Liechtenstein and Monaco.

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Siemens family

Siemens is the name of a family of German technology and telecommunications industrialists, founders and to the present day largest shareholders of Siemens AG.

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Silesian Piasts

The Silesian Piasts were the elder of four lines of the Polish Piast dynasty beginning with Władysław II the Exile (1105–1159), eldest son of Duke Bolesław III of Poland.

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Simon III, Count of Saarbrücken

Simon III of Sarrebrück, Simon III von Saarbrücken (Saarbrücken-Leiningen) (c. 1180–1243) was the Count of Saarbrücken (de) from 1207 until his death, about 1240.

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Simon IV, Count of Saarbrücken

Simon IV, Count of Saarbrücken, Simon of Saarbrücken-Commercy (born before 1247; dead 1308).

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Starschedel

The Starschedel family is an old German noble family.

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Stößner

Stößner is the name of a house of German nobility.

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Stülpnagel

The House of Stülpnagel is a family of German nobility from the Uckermark.

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Sternenfels

Sternenfels, consisting of the villages of Diefenbach and Sternenfels, is the most northern municipality in the Enz (district) in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

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Sypniewski

The surname Sypniewski is of Polish origin and centered on the Oder region where families bearing this surname are still found today.

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Tales of the Dead

Tales of the Dead was an English anthology of horror fiction, abridged from the French book Fantasmagoriana and translated anonymously by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, who also added one story of her own.

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Thadden family

Von Thadden is a German Uradel family with its roots in Eastern Pomerania (Pomerelia).

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The Blue Max

The Blue Max is a 1966 British war film in DeLuxe Color and filmed in CinemaScope, about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I. It was directed by John Guillermin, stars George Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress, and features Karl Michael Vogler and Jeremy Kemp.

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The Secret of the Selenites

The Secret of the Selenites (Le secret des sélénites) is a 1984 French animated comedy film directed by Jean Image.

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Theo Harych

Theo Harych (19 December 1903 – 22 February 1958) was a German writer.

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Thurn und Taxis

The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis (Fürstenhaus Thurn und Taxis) is a family of German nobility that is part of the Briefadel.

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Thyssen family

The Thyssen family has notable members, all of whom descend from Friedrich Thyssen, who have established steel works, elevators and escalators, industrial conglomerates, banks, and art collections - Thyssen AG, ThyssenKrupp and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.

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Units and commands of the Schutzstaffel

Units and commands of the Schutzstaffel were organizational titles used by the SS to describe the many groups, forces, and formations that existed within the SS from its inception in 1923 to the eventual fall of Nazi Germany in 1945.

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Von der Decken family

von der Decken is a Hanoverian family of German nobility.

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Weber and German politics

This article is about the political views and activities of the German sociologist Max Weber.

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Weimar Constitution

The Constitution of the German Reich (Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reichs), usually known as the Weimar Constitution (Weimarer Verfassung) was the constitution that governed Germany during the Weimar Republic era (1919–1933).

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Wernher von Braun

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German (and, later, American) aerospace engineer and space architect.

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Wilhelm von Bode

Wilhelm von Bode (10 December 1845 – 1 March 1929) was a German art historian and curator.

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Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Willem-Alexander (born Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand, 27 April 1967) is the King of the Netherlands, having ascended the throne following his mother's abdication in 2013.

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William I of the Netherlands

William I (Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

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William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

Wilhelm, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg (9 January 1724 – 10 September 1777), born Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg, was a German ruler of the County of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg, an important military commander in the Seven Years' War, Generalfeldzeugmeister of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and British field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall).

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Wohlgeboren

Wohlgeboren ("well-born") is a form of address for the lowest ranks of German nobility and claimed by the bourgeois notables.

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Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin

Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin or Bauditz (1579–1646) was a distinguished Protestant German cavalry commander who rose to the rank of field marshal during the Thirty Years' War.

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1948 KLM Constellation air disaster

A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner (named Nijmegen and registered PH-TEN) crashed into high ground near Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on 20 October 1948; all 40 aboard died.

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References

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