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e. Gustavus Adolphus (9 December [N.S 19 December] 1594 – 6 November [N.S 16 November] 1632), also known in English as Gustav II Adolf or Gustav II Adolph, [1] was King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, and is credited with the rise of Sweden as a great European power (Swedish: Stormaktstiden). During his reign, Sweden became one of the primary ...
Gustav IV Adolf or Gustav IV Adolph[ 1 ] (1 November 1778 – 7 February 1837) was King of Sweden from 1792 until he was deposed in a coup in 1809. He was also the last Swedish monarch to be the ruler of Finland. The occupation of Finland in 1808–09 by Russian forces was the immediate cause of Gustav Adolf's overthrow, violently initiated by ...
Gustaf VI Adolf (Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf; 11 November 1882 – 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden. Before Gustaf Adolf acceded to the throne, he had been crown prince for nearly 43 years during his father's reign ...
Gustav Adolf of Nassau-Saarbrücken (27 March 1632, Saarbrücken – 9 October 1677, Strasbourg) was Count of Saarbrücken and Major General at the Rhine of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation . He was the third son of Count William Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1590 – 22 August 1640) and Countess Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach (1595–1651 ...
Gustavus Adolphus Day is celebrated in Sweden on 6 November in memory of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who was killed on that date (old style) in 1632 at the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years' War. [2][3] The day is named for the king [4] and is a general flag flying day in Sweden. [4][5] The day has been celebrated since the early 19th ...
Life. Gustav Adolph was born at the ducal residence in Güstrow, the son of Duke John Albert II and his third wife Eleonore Marie (1600–1657), daughter of Prince Christian I of Anhalt-Bernburg. As Gustav Adolph was a minor when his father died in 1636, his uncle Duke Adolph Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at first became regent at Güstrow.
Gustav IV Adolf (1778–1837), King of Sweden 1792–1809. Gustaf VI Adolf (1882–1973), King of Sweden 1950–1973. Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1906–1947), son of Gustaf VI Adolf, father of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Gustav Adolph, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1632–1677), ruling prince in the Holy Roman Empire.
Gustav Adolf Karl Friedrich Ernst von Zangen [1] (7 November 1892 – 1 May 1964) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a commander of the 15th Army in the Netherlands in 1944 during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.