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The following is an incomplete list of German colonel generals. Generals later promoted to general field marshal ... Name Born Died Notes 20 Apr 1936: Werner von ...
German placenames often employ a native disambiguation system where the name of a river or region is added to a town name. These names should be spelled out in full in Wikipedia, because the various German-language abbreviation systems (parentheses, points or forward slashes) are not understood in English, e.g. Linz am Rhein , not "Linz/Rhein ...
German Army generals of World War I (146 P) M. Marshals of Germany (2 C, 3 P) N. German commanders of the Napoleonic Wars (2 C, 46 P) National People's Army generals ...
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By the 16th century, with the rise of standing armies, the German states had begun to appoint generals from the nobility to lead armies in battle. [citation needed]A standard rank system was developed during the Thirty Years War, with the highest rank of General usually reserved for the ruling sovereign (e.g. the Kaiser or Elector) and the actual field commander holding the rank of ...
The members of the British royal house, a branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, severed ties with their German cousins following several bombing raids on England by the first long-range bomber, the Gotha G.IV starting in March 1917. On July 17, 1917, King George V changed the family's name to the House of Windsor.
Pages in category "German Army generals of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 504 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
With family names originating locally, many names display particular characteristics of the local dialects, such as the south German, Austrian and Swiss diminutive endings -l-el, -erl, -le or -li as in Kleibl, Schäuble or Nägeli (from 'Nagel', nail). The same is true for regional variants in the naming of professions.