PEEBLES PROFILES

PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 155August StrammAugust Stramm was born in the Westphalian town of Münster on July 29, 1874. His father had served in the Prussian Army… and had been decorated for…

PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 156Ernst TollerErnst Toller was born into a Jewish family on the first of December 1893 in the town of Samotschin (now Szamocin, Poland). He was the son of…

August Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Erdmann von Cramon was born in the Prussian Silesian town of Pawlau on April 7, 1861. He was the son of Friedrich August von Cramon and…

Born in the Prussian town of Brandenburg an der Havel on September 1, 1860, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Waldersee was theson of Colonel Georg Ernst von Waldersee, (who died…

THE ROYAL DIPLOMATKarl Max, Prince Lichnowsky was born in the Prussian Silesian town of Kreuzenort (now Krzyżanowice, Poland) on March 8, 1860.He became the sixth Prince and eighth Count Lichnowsky…

EARLY YEARSGeorg Wetzell was born in Nieder-Erlenbach, Oberhessen (in the Grand Duchy of Hesse) on March 5, 1869. At the age of twenty, he was a Fahnenjunker in the Pioneer…

Constantin Fehrenbach was born on January 11, 1852 in Wellendingen near Bonndorf (in the Grand Duchy of Baden). He was the son of Johann Georg Fehrenbach (a teacher) and Rosina…

EARLY YEARSErnst Friedrich Otto von Oven was born in Haus Velmode (in the Westphalian district of Hamm) on February 3, 1859, one full week after the birth of the future…