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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 .
Gneisenau (German pronunciation: [ˈɡnaɪ̯zənaʊ̯]) was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. She was the second vessel of her class , which included her sister ship, Scharnhorst .
August von Gneisenau (1760–1831), Prussian field marshal; Bruno Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1811–1889), Prussian general; One of the German naval ships named after August von Gneisenau: SMS Gneisenau (1879), iron-hulled three-masted frigate, wrecked in 1900; SMS Gneisenau, World War I armoured cruiser, launched in 1906 and sunk in 1914
In the film, the character Gneisenau describes him as "an Emperor who abandoned the German people in their hour of need". The film moves to Kolberg in 1806, where inhabitants are shown enjoying ordinary life. The town's leaders, Mayor Nettelbeck chief among them, discuss Napoleon's announcements and what it will mean to them. Some see the ...
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Gneisenau, when serving as the squadron second command flagship, had an extra staff of 3 officers and 25 men. The ships carried a number of smaller vessels, including two picket boats, two launches , one pinnace , two cutters , three yawls , and one dinghy .
SS Gneisenau was a 18,160 gross register tons (GRT) Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) ocean liner that was launched and completed in 1935. Like several other German ships of the same name, she was named after the Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and military reformer August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760–1831).
SMS Gneisenau was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s. The ship was named after the Prussian Field Marshal August von Gneisenau . She was the fifth member of the class, which included five other vessels.