PEEBLES PROFILES

EPISODE 129 Bruno Loerzer Born in the German capital of Berlin on January 22, 1891, Bruno Leopold Loerzer was an army officer who learned to fly when the Great War…

Part of a common family, Clemens Gottlieb Ernst von Delbrück was born in Halle an der Saale on January 19, 1856. After high school, he studied theology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität…

MILITARY RISEBorn on Christmas Day 1856 in the Prussian city of Danzig, Georg Fuchs was a college graduate Prussian Army soldier at the age of twenty. Georg later became a…

Felix Ludwig Graf von Bothmer was born in Munich on December 10, 1852. He was the son of Generalleutnant Graf Max von Bothmer and Laura (née Reichert).In 1871, young Felix…

Georg Cornelius Adalbert von der Marwitz was born on July 7, 1856 in Stolp (now Słupsk, Poland), located in the province of Pomerania. At the age of nineteen, he received…

FAMILY TIESJakob Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim de Pourtalès was born on October 24, 1853, son of Wilhelm von Pourtalès and Charlotte Luise Auguste Gräfin von Maltzan zu Wartenberg und Penzlin.…

THE SOCIALIST LAWYERHugo Haase was born on September 29, 1863 in the East Prussian town of Allenstein (now Olsztyn, Poland), the son of Jewish shoemaker and small businessman Nathan Haase…

Born in Osterode am Harz (in the Kingdom of Hannover) on July 27, 1851, Johann Hans von Zwehl joined the military in 1870 with the “Graf Schwerin” (a.k.a. Third Pomeranian)…

Fritz Höhn was born in Wiesbaden on May 31, 1896. He began his military service in the elite Seventh Guards Infantry Regiment.SOLDIER TURNED AIR FIGHTERHöhn began his aerial duty in…