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August Wilhelm Antonius Graf [1] Neidhardt von Gneisenau [2] (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation .
The Gneisenau Memorial on Bebelplatz green space in Berlin's Mitte district commemorates the Prussian field marshal and freedom fighter August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760–1831). Created from 1840 to 1855 by Christian Daniel Rauch in neoclassical style, it is a piece of the Berlin school of sculpture.
Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf: 1821: 1762–1823 [38] Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg: 1821: 1759–1830 [39] August Neidhardt von Gneisenau: 1825: 1760–1831 [40] Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten: 1839: 1770–1848 [41] Karl Freiherr von Müffling: 5 October 1847: 1775–1851 [42] Hermann von Boyen: 7 October 1847: 1771–1848 [43] Karl ...
At a late-night council, Blücher's chief of staff, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, had been distrustful of Wellington's strategy, but Blücher persuaded him that they should march to join Wellington's army. In the morning Wellington duly received a reply from Blücher, promising to support him with three corps.
The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially the Great General Staff (German: Großer Generalstab), was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.
Aerial view of the Walhalla memorial Walhalla, seen from the Danube River. The Walhalla (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a hall of fame Monument that honours laudable and distinguished people in German history – "politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue"; [1] thus the celebrities honoured are drawn from Greater Germany, a wider area than today's Germany, and even as ...
Karl Georg Albrecht Ernst von Hake; Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846) Johann von Hinrichs; Karl Friedrich Bernhard Hellmuth von Hobe; Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen; Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn
Gneisenau therefore initially ordered a retreat directly north on Tilly, which would maintain that contact". [33] However, Parkinson, citing Prussian records, claims Gneisenau "raged" over the lack of British support at Ligny and decided to retreat east after Tilly: "And slowly, fatefully, Gneisenau's choice of retreat route swung towards Liege ...