PEEBLES PROFILES

Felix Funke was born in the Prussian Silesian city of Hirschberg (now Jelenia Góra in Poland) on January 3, 1865. His father, Adolf Funke (originally from Magdeburg) was the president…

Born in Frankfurt am Oder on August 19, 1878, Franz Dagobert Johannes von Rintelen came from a banking family. He served with Deutsche Bank, and in 1906, Rintelen was the…

Born on Christmas Day 1859 in the Kingdom of Hanover, Ludwig Gustav Adolf von Estorff was the second child of Eggert Ludwig von Estorff and Julie Bernhardine (née von Witzendorff).…

Josias Oskar von Heeringen was born in Kassel (in the Electorate of Hesse) on May 9, 1850, son of Josias von Heeringen the Elder and Ehefrau Karoline von Starkloff. His…

CHILDHOODKarl Boy-Ed, of half Turkish and half German origin, was born in Lübeck (on the German Baltic coast) on September 14, 1872. His Turkish father, Carl Johann Boy, was a…

Born Richard Heinrich Karl von Conta in the West Prussian town of Tuchel on November 24, 1856, he was the son of the later Prussian major general Richard von Conta…

Born on May 28, 1879 in Schneidemuehl (located in the province of Posen, Germany), Felix A. Sommerfeld grew up in a middle class Jewish household as the youngest son of…

Johannes von Busse was born in Neisse (now Nysa) in Prussian Silesia on April 20, 1862. The Busse family became part of the Prussian nobility three years before young Johannes…