PEEBLES PROFILES

EARLY YEARSMax Hermann Bauer was born in Quedlinburg on January 31, 1869. He began to study medicine in Berlin, but then enlisted as an officer candidate in Foot Artillery Regiment…

Hermann Göring… the name is most synonymous with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. He was the third leader of the SA (Sturmabteilung), a wounded participant of the failed Beer Hall…

Albert Otto Walter Mayer was born on April 24, 1892 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt. His family later moved to the area near Muhlhausen (now Mulhouse) in the then German-held territory of…

Karl Theodor Helfferich was born on July 22, 1872 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in the Palatinate. He studied law and political science at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and…

MILITARY RISELeopold Maximilian Joseph Maria Arnulf, Prinz von Bayern was born on February 9, 1846 in Munich. He was the son of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821–1912) and Archduchess…

YOUNG SOLDIER TURNED PILOTKurt Robert Wilhelm Wolff was born on February 6, 1895 in Greifswald, Pomerania. He was orphaned as a child and was raised by relatives in Memel, East…

EARLY YEARSLudwig Maximilian Erwin Richter was born on January 21, 1884 in the Russian city of Riga. He was the son of a German musician and a Baltic German mother.The…

CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFEJohann-Heinrich, Graf von Bernstorff was born on November 14, 1862 in London... where his father, Graf Albrecht von Bernstorff, had just spent seven years as the Prussian…

EARLY YEARS: THE EDITORKurt Eisner was born in Berlin on May 14, 1867 to Emanuel Eisner and Hedwig Levenstein. Newspaper reports of his death identify Kurt Eisner as being born…