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The vast majority of the people promoted to field marshal won major battles in wars of their time. Field marshals played a compelling and influential role in military matters, were tax-exempt, members of the nobility, equal to government officials, under constant protection or escort, and had the right to directly report to the royal family. [3]
10. Franz Henning von Winterfeld, Herr auf Kirch-Mulsow: 5. Ida Margarete von Winterfeld: 11. Adelheid von Moltke: 1. Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt: 12. Hans Joachim von Zülow, Herr auf Zülow: 6. Barthold Hans von Zülow, Herr auf Pätrow und Toitenwinkel: 13. Ida von Rantzau: 3. Dorothea Maria von Zülow: 14. Balthasar ...
1618 – Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559–1632) 1618 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy (1571–1621) 1622 – Marchese Hieronymus Caraffa de Montenegro († 1630)
Prussian marshal's baton, awarded to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1895.. Generalfeldmarschall (German: [ɡenəʁaːlˈfɛltmaʁʃal] ⓘ; from Old High German marahscalc, "marshal, stable master, groom"; English: general field marshal, field marshal general, or field marshal; often abbreviated to Feldmarschall) was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire ...
Generalfeldmarschall ('general field marshal, field marshal general, or field marshal', abbreviated to Feldmarschall) was the most senior general officer rank in the armies of several German states, including Saxony, Brandenburg-Prussia, Prussia, the German Empire, and lastly, Germany (from 1918).
At the close of that day, Frederick rode down the lines and called out to General Prince Maurice, "I congratulate you, Herr Feldmarschall!" At Zorndorf he again distinguished himself, but at the surprise of Hochkirch he fell wounded into the hands of the Austrians. Maurice suffered blood poisoning from the wound and succumbed soon after his ...
Lieutenant field marshal, also frequently historically field marshal lieutenant (German: Feldmarschall-Leutnant, formerly Feldmarschallleutnant, historically also Feldmarschall-Lieutenant and, in official Imperial and Royal Austrian army documents from 1867 always Feldmarschalleutnant, abbreviated FML), was a senior army rank in certain European armies of the 17th to 20th centuries.
Portrait identifying Schwarz as the "inventor of artillery" Berthold Schwarz O.F.M. (sometimes spelled Schwartz), also known as Berthold the Black and der Schwartzer, was a legendary German (or in some accounts Danish or Greek) alchemist of the late 14th century, credited with the invention of gunpowder by 15th- through 19th-century European literature.