PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 196Prinz Heinrich von Preußen (Prince Henry of Prussia)EARLY YEARSBorn in Prussian Berlin on August 14, 1862, Albert Wilhelm Heinrich was the third child (second son) of eight children…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 157Walther ForstmannEARLY YEARSWalther Forstmann was born in Essen-Werden on March 9, 1883. At the age of seventeen, young Walther was made Seekadett upon entering the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial…
A Postcard from the 1st Werfdivision. Sorry, nothing major today in my section. Somehow, I am running out of stuff in my collection. Need to buy more. Still, it may…
BEGINNINGSLothar von Arnauld de la Perière was born of French-German descent in Posen (now Poznań, Poland) on March 18, 1886. At the age of seventeen, he entered the Kaiserliche Marine.…
EARLY YEARSFriedrich Christiansen was born into an old seafaring family on December 12, 1879 in Wyk auf Föhr, located in Schleswig-Holstein. At sixteen, he joined the merchant marine and served…
EARLY LIFE AND CAREERThe son of a colonel in the Prussian Army, Karl Friedrich Max von Müller was born in Hanover on June 16, 1873. After attending gymnasium at Hanover…
To social media companies knowPEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 69 Gunther Plüschow: the hero from Tsingtau Gunther Plüschow (born in Munich on February 8, 1886) was an aviator, aerial explorer, and author.…
Hans Hermann Ludwig von Reuter was born into a Prussian military family on February 19, 1869 in the town of Guben. His father, a colonel in the army, was killed…
Henning Rudolf Adolf Karl von Holtzendorff was born into a noble family in Berlin on January 9, 1853. He joined the Prussian Navy in 1869, later serving in the Franco-Prussian…
Gustav Bachmann was born in Cammin, Rostock on July 13, 1860. Upon graduating from high school, he joined the Imperial German Navy as a cadet in April 1877. Bachmann completed…