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    catechism, both printed in Königsberg in 1547. A university city, home of the Albertina University (founded in 1544), Königsberg developed into an important...
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    castle. 1286 – Königsberg chartered. 1300 – Town of Löbenicht built. 1324 – Town of Kneiphof founded. 1333 - Construction of Königsberg Cathedral begins...
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  • Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas. Retrieved 18 July 2019. "Memorial Plaque to the Victims of the First Deportation from Königsberg"...
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  • Walter Simon (philanthropist) (category Politicians from Königsberg)
    Königsberg – 1 April 1920) was a German banker, councillor and philanthropist active in Königsberg and Tübingen. Simon, the second son of Königsberg banker...
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    Karl Kollwitz (category University of Königsberg alumni)
    nine-year-old son to one of the Königsberg orphanages, from which Karl Kollwitz later attended the Royal Wilhelm Gymnasium in Königsberg. Despite his mother's death...
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    of the First Deportation from Königsberg". Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance. Berlin, Germany: Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden...
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  • Hans Aronson (category Physicians from Königsberg)
    awarded by the Senate of Berlin. Aronson was born in Königsberg. He studied medicine in Königsberg and Berlin, and, as a student, he became an assistant...
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  • Army formed by Lithuanians. Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg marched into Königsberg (Lithuanian: Karaliaučius) on 8 January 1813 and immediately declared...
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    Reinhold Rehs (category University of Königsberg alumni)
    Königsberg and studied law at the Universities of Königsberg and Heidelberg. He worked as a journalist for the "Ostpreußische Zeitung" in Königsberg (1923–24)...
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    Karl-Hermann Flach (category Politicians from Königsberg)
    and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). Flach was born in Königsberg. He became a member of the liberal LDP (in the Soviet zone of Germany)...
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    under Polish administration with the Soviet Union taking the area around Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), pending a final peace conference with Germany which...
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    Kolberg, roughly 1,900 of them died at Breslau, and during the Battle of Königsberg, another 2,400 members of the Volkssturm were killed. At other times along...
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    expanding its size with the Prussian Army. Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, Berlin, decisively...
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    Fahrt (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg, 356 p.) 1935 Wir bleiben jung - eine heitere Hanseatengeschichte (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg) 1936 Das Wunderbare:...
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  • include Gustavus Adolphus Union, Gustav-Adolf-Stiftung and Evangelischer Verein der Gustav-Adolf-Stiftung. The Battle of Lützen (1632) was a decisive battle...
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    worked as an editor at social democratic newspapers in Brandenburg and Königsberg (Volkstribüne). From 1902 to 1918 he was chief editor at the paper Volksstimme...
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    Johanna Buska (category Actors from Königsberg)
    16 May 1922) was a German actress and opera singer. Buska was born in Königsberg. After engagements at the Burgtheater and an affair with Rudolf, Crown...
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    His mother is from Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) and his father is from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Rangnick began his playing career at VfB Stuttgart...
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  • with Werner Best, Walter Schellenberg and Kurt Pomme as director of the Stiftung Nordhav. During World War II, Albert was chief of police in Litzmannstadt...
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  • des Ostens ('The Red Flag of the East') was a newspaper published from Königsberg. It was the organ of the East Prussia-Danzig organization (bezirk) of...
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    Jacques Joseph (category Physicians from Königsberg)
    surgery] (in German). Düsseldorf: L.I.S.A.Wissenschaftsportal Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Retrieved 2022-01-28. The first reprint edition of this book was published...
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    East Prussia. In 1925, he moved first to Rastenburg, then in 1928 on to Königsberg, where he attended the Gymnasium. One of his teachers was Ernst Wiechert...
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    Adolf Hermann Hagen (category Politicians from Königsberg)
    grandfather. Hagen studied jurisprudence at Königsberg and then, in 1843, entered into public service in Königsberg. In 1854 he became "city treasurer" (Stadtkämmerer)...
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    William Motherby (category Physicians from Königsberg)
    months in Königsberg. It was only in 1840 that he completely closed down his medical practice in the city. "Motherby, William, Landwirt". Stiftung Deutsche...
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    drawing as a child. In 1876 he went to study painting in the academy of Königsberg. Initially intending to become a history painter, he was dissuaded from...
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    Hans Josephsohn (category Artists from Königsberg)
    (May 1920 – 20 August 2012) was a Swiss sculptor. Josephsohn was born in Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad), East Prussia. Here he attended elementary school...
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    Otto Braun (category Politicians from Königsberg)
    was largely forgotten by the time he died in 1955. Braun was born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the capital and largest city of East Prussia...
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    Archives can be said to cover "nine centuries of European history between Königsberg and Cleves." Originally located in the Berlin Palace, the Archive moved...
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  • Army formed by Lithuanians. Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg marched into Königsberg (Lithuanian: Karaliaučius) on 8 January 1813 and immediately declared...
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    Carl Heinrich Hagen (category Academic staff of the University of Königsberg)
    Franz-Neumnn-Stiftung und UB Göttingen, Handschriftenabt. Papendiek, Nachlass Cod Ms.F.E. Neumann 107:21". Gelehrtenfamilie-Königsberg. Dr. E. Neumann-Redlin...
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