Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine by the Rhine (Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand) was the last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne.…
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen was born into a lower ranking Bavarian noble family in Laufen, Upper Bavaria on November 24, 1862. His father was a royal notary.At eighteen, Konrad entered…
EARLY LIFEBaron Richard von Kühlmann was born in the Turkish capital of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) on May 3, 1873. The son of the director general of the Anatolian Railways, he…
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.…
Alexander Adolf August Karl von Linsingen was born on February 10, 1850 in Hildesheim, which was in the Kingdom of Hanover before the German unification. At the age of eighteen,…
Walter Nicolai was the first senior IC (Intelligence) Officer in the Imperial German Army. A supporter of the Great War, he ran the military secret service, Abteilung IIIb. According to…
Max Näther was born on August 24, 1899 in Tepliwoda, Silesia (the eastern part of the Kingdom of Prussia which is now part of Poland). At the age of only…
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…
Major Josef Mai was born in Otterwalde (now Otorworo) in the province of Posen on March 3, 1887. His military service began on October 3, 1907 with the Tenth Lancers.When…
Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr Graf von Hertling was born in Darmstadt on August 31, 1843. He began his career as a professor of philosophy at the University of Munich, publishing…