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Prince George William of Hanover (Georg Wilhelm Ernst August Friedrich Axel Prinz von Hannover; 25 March 1915 – 8 January 2006) was the second-eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and his wife ...
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Hans Krebs (4 March 1898 – 2 May 1945) was a German Army general of infantry who served during World War II. A career soldier, he served in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht. He served as the last Chief ...
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Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and West Germany. He joined ...
Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1821
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Caroline of Brunswick (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; German: Caroline Amalie Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover ...
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Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal and war criminal during the Nazi era who served as Chief of the Armed Forces High Command – the ...
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Gustav Knuth (7 July 1901 – 1 February 1987) was a German film actor. He appeared in 128 films between 1935 and 1982 and starred in the TV series Alle meine Tiere. He was married to the actress ...
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Wolfgang Hans Heiner Paul von Bostell (25 February 1917 – 10 May 1991) was a highly decorated Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron ...
German officer and member of the German Resistance in Second World War
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Axel Ernst-August Clamor Franz Albrecht Erich Leo Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst ( 24 April 1919 – 26 January 1993) was a German officer during World War II who was a member of the German Resistance ...
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Herbert Otto Gille (8 March 1897 – 26 December 1966) was a high-ranking German SS commander of the Nazi era. He commanded the SS Division Wiking during World War II. Gille was a recipient of the Knight's ...
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Frederica of Hanover (Friederike Luise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa; Greek: Φρειδερίκη της Ελλάδας; 18 April 1917 – 6 February 1981) was Queen consort of Greece from 1947 ...
German composer, violinist and conductor (1784–1859)
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Louis Spohr (5 April 1784 – 22 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Highly regarded during ...
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (German: Gauß ; Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to ...
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Heinrich Hannibal (19 November 1889 – 9 May 1971) was an SS commander in the Orpo of Nazi Germany during World War II whose police units perpetrated mass murder in the occupied Soviet Union.
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Antoinette Amalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Antoinette Amalie; 14 April 1696 – 6 March 1762) was a Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by marriage to Ferdinand Albert II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ...
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Fritz Prager (born 17 December 1905 in Wolfenbüttel; died 3 December 1940 in Braunschweig) was a member of the Fallschirmjäger during World War II.
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Kurt "Kuddel" Ubben (18 November 1911 – 27 April 1944) was a German Luftwaffe wing commander and military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace listed with 110 aerial victories—that is, 110 aerial ...
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Hans Peter Waldmann (24 September 1922 – 18 March 1945) was a German Luftwaffe (Air Force) fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Waldmann received the award ...
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Karl Brandan Mollweide, (3 February 1774 in Wolfenbüttel – 10 March 1825 in Leipzig) was a German mathematician and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig. In trigonometry, he discovered the formula ...