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Ludwig von Weltzien, the Glossary

Index Ludwig von Weltzien

Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Weltzien was an Oldenburg-Prussian lieutenant general who served in the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars.[1]

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  1. 32 relations: Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Austro-Prussian War, Battle of Dybbøl, Battle of Gravelotte, Battle of Werbach, Berlin, Bernhard von Poten, Bockhorn, Lower Saxony, Campaign of the Main, Cologne, Duchy of Nassau, First Schleswig War, Franco-Prussian War, Frankfurt, Generalleutnant, German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis, Iron Cross, Jever, Kurt von Priesdorff, Leipzig University, North German Confederation, Order of the Red Eagle, Prussian Staff College, Siege of Metz (1870), Soldatisches Führertum, Typhus, Wiesbaden, Wilhelmsorden, William I, German Emperor, 15th Division (German Empire).

  2. People from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

Augustus I or Paul Frederick Augustus (Paul Friedrich August von Oldenburg) (13 July 178327 February 1853) was the reigning Grand Duke of Oldenburg from 1829 to 1853.

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Austro-Prussian War

The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as Deutscher Krieg ("German War"), Deutscher Bruderkrieg ("German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation.

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Battle of Dybbøl

The Battle of Dybbøl (Slaget ved Dybbøl; Erstürmung der Düppeler Schanzen) was the key battle of the Second Schleswig War, fought between Denmark and Prussia.

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Battle of Gravelotte

The Battle of Gravelotte (or Battle of Gravelotte–St. Privat) on 18 August 1870 was the largest battle of the Franco-Prussian War.

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Battle of Werbach

The Battle of Werbach took place during the Austro-Prussian War as part of the Campaign of the Main on 24 July 1866 between the Prussian Alliance and the German Federal Army.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bernhard von Poten

Karl Georg Heinrich Bernhard von Poten (8 August 1828 – 22 November 1909), known as Bernhard von Poten, was a royal Prussian colonel best known for his military writing.

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Bockhorn, Lower Saxony

Bockhorn is a municipality in the district of Friesland, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Campaign of the Main

The Campaign of the Main (in German: Mainfeldzug) was a campaign of the Prussian Army in the area of the River Main against the allies of Austria in southern Germany during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Duchy of Nassau

The Duchy of Nassau (German: Herzogtum Nassau) was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse.

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First Schleswig War

The First Schleswig War (Schleswig-Holsteinischer Krieg), also known as the Schleswig-Holstein Uprising (Schleswig-Holsteinische Erhebung) and the Three Years' War (Treårskrigen), was a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question: who should control the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which at the time were ruled by the king of Denmark in a personal union.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Generalleutnant

Generalleutnant is the German-language variant of lieutenant general, used in some German speaking countries.

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German Confederation

The German Confederation was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe.

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Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (also known as Holstein-Oldenburg) was a grand duchy within the German Confederation, North German Confederation and German Empire that consisted of three widely separated territories: Oldenburg, Eutin and Birkenfeld.

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House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis

The House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Frederick Louis (German: Haus und Verdienstorden von Herzog Peter Friedrich Ludwig) or proper German Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Frederick Louis (German: Oldenburgischer Haus- und Verdienstorden des Herzogs Peter Friedrich Ludwig) was a civil and military order of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, a member state of the German Empire.

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Iron Cross

The Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz,, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945).

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Jever

Jever is the capital of the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Kurt von Priesdorff

Wilhelm Werner Kurt von Priesdorff (19 October 1881 in Berlin – 5 September 1967 in Naumburg) was a Prussian officer, his last rank was Major, as well as a Geheimer Regierungsrat (executive council), military historian and author.

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Leipzig University

Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany.

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North German Confederation

The North German Confederation (Norddeutscher Bund) was initially a German military alliance established in August 1866 under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia, which was transformed in the subsequent year into a confederated state (a de facto federal state) that existed from July 1867 to December 1870.

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Order of the Red Eagle

The Order of the Red Eagle (Roter Adlerorden) was an order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Prussian Staff College

The Prussian Staff College, also Prussian War College (Preußische Kriegsakademie) was the highest military facility of the Kingdom of Prussia to educate, train, and develop general staff officers.

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Siege of Metz (1870)

The Siege of Metz was a battle fought during the Franco-Prussian War from August 19 to October 27, 1870 and ended in a decisive allied German victory.

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Soldatisches Führertum

Soldatisches Führertum (Soldiers' Leadership) was a ten-volume reference work in German, containing short biographies of generals in the Prussian Army by Kurt von Priesdorff.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.

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Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden is the capital of the German state of Hesse, and the second-largest Hessian city after Frankfurt am Main.

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Wilhelmsorden

The Wilhelm Order ("Wilhelmsorden") of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) was instituted by the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I on 20 August 1851 as a civil and military Order of Merit.

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William I, German Emperor

William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888.

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15th Division (German Empire)

The 15th Division (15. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army.

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See also

People from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Weltzien