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Eduard Heinrich Rudolph David was a German politician. He was an important figure in the history of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the German political labor movement. In the…

Ritter Oskar von Niedermayer was a German general, professor, and super-spy. Sometimes referred to as the German Lawrence of Arabia (just like Wilhelm Wassmuss), Niedermayer was best remembered for having…

RISE IN RANKSBorn in Quanditten, East Prussia on October 2, 1854, Julius Guido von Usedom came from a Pomeranian noble family… the son of Lieutenant Kuno von Usedom (1804–1855). The…

THE ACADEMIC SPYShe had several aliases: Fräulein Doktor, Mademoiselle Docteur, Fair Lady, La Baronne, and Mademoiselle Schwartz.Elsbeth Schragmüller was a German spy during the First World War… and for many…

EARLY YEARSFriedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin was born in Wetzlar (an exclave of the Rhine Province in Prussia) on November 27, 1851. After leaving school in 1870, he enlisted in…

MILITARY RISEOtto Ernst Vinzent Leo von Below was born in Danzig (now Gdańsk) on January 18, 1857. At the age of eighteen, he entered the Imperial German Army. After three…

EARLY YEARSOskar Cohn was born in Guttentag, Silesia (now Dobrodzień, Poland) in the Kingdom of Prussia on October 15, 1869… the eleventh child of Bernhard and Charlotte Cohn (née Dresdner).…