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Dietrich Friedrich Eduard Kasimir von [a] Saucken (16 May 1892 – 27 September 1980) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 2nd Army and the Army East Prussia. Turning down an offer to escape by air, he surrendered to the Red Army in May 1945.
Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham (1693–1778), natural daughter of Melusine von der Schulenburg and George I of Great Britain; Michael von der Schulenburg (born 1948), German diplomat and politician, Member of the European Parliament (since 2024) Wilibald von Schulenburg (1847–1934), German landscape artist
Von der Leyen unveiled the new proposed EU Commission's structure (whom she deemed to be a "geopolitical" one) [145] on 10 September 2019, renaming a number of posts of the College of Commissioners to make them sound less formal and more goal-oriented, including the controversial portfolio for "Protecting our European Way of Life", [146] [147 ...
Baron Captain Georg von Trapp was the patriarch of the von Trapp family. He was born in 1880 and served for 24 years in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, where he achieved the country’s highest award ...
The Sauk, an Algonquian languages people, are believed to have developed as a people along the St. Lawrence River, which is now northern New York.The precise time is unknown, but around the time of the year 1600, they were driven from the area of the St. Lawrence River.
In April 2023, Frédéric Baldan, a Belgian lobbyist specializing in EU-China trade relation, filed a lawsuit against von der Leyen before a Liège court, accusing her of usurping official powers, destroying public documents, pursuing illicit interests and committing corruption, and damaging his country's public finances.
In medieval or early modern names, the von particle was at times added to commoners' names; thus, Hans von Duisburg meant ' Hans from [the city of] Duisburg '. This meaning is preserved in Swiss toponymic surnames and in the Dutch van, which is a cognate of von but also does not necessarily indicate nobility.
Frederick of Hohenau and his fiancée Charlotte von der Decken in 1880. Count [1] Albrecht Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard of Hohenau (21 May 1857, in the Albrechtsberg Castle, in Dresden – 15 April 1914, in Ochelhermsdorf) was a German nobleman.