PEEBLES PROFILES

Heinrich Claudius Kroll was born in the village of Flatzby (near Flensburg) on November 3, 1894. Kroll wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a teacher.…

THE SURGEONAnton Casimir Dilger was born in Front Royal, Virginia (in the United States) on February 13, 1884. His father, Hubert “Leatherbreeches" Dilger, was a German immigrant from Engen. Hubert…

EARLY LIFE AND PRE-WAR YEARSBorn in Baden-Baden on July 10, 1867, Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm (of the House of Baden) was the son of Prince Wilhelm Max (1829–1897), third son…

Born in Breslau on September 16, 1886, Raimund Weisbach was part of the Kaiserliche Marine when the First World War began. He was the watch officer aboard the German submarine…

EARLY YEARS AND ARMY SERVICEAdolf Tutschek was born in Ingolstadt on May 16, 1891. He was the son of Karl Tutschek, Chief Medical Officer to the Royal Bavarian Military Academy.The…

Georg Michaelis was the chancellor of Imperial Germany for just under four months in 1917. He was the first chancellor not of noble birth to hold the office. With an…

EARLY YEARSBorn in the Tsarist Russian capital of Saint Petersburg on November 27, 1864, Alfred William Moritz Meyer was the eighth of ten children belonging to Friedrich Meyer and Dorothy…

Maximilian “Max” Wilhelm Gustav Moritz von Prittwitz und Gaffron was born in Bernstadt (now Bierutów, Poland) in Prussian Silesia on November 27, 1848. The young Prittwitz came from aristocracy; his…

Erich Victor Carl August Franke was a German military officer and the last commander of the Schutztruppe in German South West Africa. He was born in Zuckmantel (in Austrian Silesia)…

THE KAISER’S ADJUTANTGeorg Alexander von Müller was born in Chemnitz (in the Kingdom of Saxony) on March 24, 1854. He grew up in Sweden, where his father worked as a…