PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE XXXI: Erich KästnerTHE LAST GERMAN?Erich Kästner was the last documented World War I veteran who fought for the German Empire (including all nationalities and ethnic groups). He…
PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE XXX: Fritz Haber“Father of Chemical Warfare”FAMILY TIESFritz Haber was born in Breslau on December 9, 1868 as part of a well-off Jewish family. The family name Haber…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE XXIXJohannes von EbenJohannes Karl Louis Richard Eben was born in Preußisch Mark, East Prussia (now Przezmark, Poland) on February 24 1855. At the age of eighteen, Eben began…
PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE XXVIIIFritz RumeyHe was a German air ace of the First World War, credited with forty-five victories. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia on March 3, 1891, Fritz Rumey…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE XXVIIRichard StumpfCHRISTIAN, JOURNEYMAN, SEAMANBorn February 20, 1892 in Grafenberg, Bavaria, Richard Stumpf was a Roman Catholic, tinsmith, and member of a Christian trade union. For six years, he…
PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE XXVIWolfgang KappEARLY LIFEWolfgang Kapp, a Prussian civil servant and journalist, was born on July 24, 1858 in New York City, where his father Friedrich Kapp (a political…
PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE XXVFranz von PapenTHE ARISTOCRATFranz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen, Erbsälzer zu Werl und Neuwerk was born into a wealthy family of Westphalian Roman Catholic aristocrats on…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE XXIVOtto Liman von SandersFAMILY AND RISE THROUGH THE RANKSOtto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders was born on February 17, 1855 in Stolp (now Słupsk, Poland) in the province…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE XXIII: Gotthard SachsenbergGotthard Sachsenberg was born on December 6, 1891 in Rosslau, north of the Elbe River near Dessau, Germany. After his initial schooling, he attended the gymnasium…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE XXIIWilhelm SouchonBorn in Leipzig on June 2, 1864 to a family of Huguenot ancestry, Admiral Wilhelm Anton Souchon commanded the Kaiserliche Marine's Mediterranean squadron in the early days…