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unusual facts about Danish Army



War commissar

The war commissar or Kriegskommissar was a Danish Army, Norwegian Army, Prussian Army, Swedish Army and Soviet army military official who was responsible for supplying military arms and provisions, and was in charge of the military budget and conscription.


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Christian Julius de Meza

De Meza was responsible for the withdrawal of the Danish army from the Danevirke, an event which shocked the Danish public and resulted in the loss of his command.

Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain

He resigned his commission in 1760 and accepted an appointment as field-marshal from Frederick V of Denmark, being charged in 1762 with the reorganization of the Danish army.

Geskel Saloman

Geskel Saloman (born 1 April 1821 in Tønder - July 5, 1902 in Båstad) was a Danish–Swedish portrait and genre painter, brother of Siegfried Saloman and chief medical officer for the Danish army Nota Saloman.

Högvaktsterrassen

In 1921, it was suggested the street should be named Kristina Gyllenstiernas skans ("Sconce of. .") after Christina Gyllenstierna (1494–1559), wife of Sten Sture the Younger (1493–1520), who's statue, found nearby at the time, reminded of her bravely defence of the palace against the Danish army in 1520.

John VII of Hoya

He attempted to occupy the island of Funen, however, his army was trounced at Mount Ochsenberg, near Assens, by a Danish army led by Johann Rantzau.

King Alfred's Tower

The tower stands near the location of 'Egbert's stone' where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the important Battle of Ethandun, where the Danish army, led by Guthrum the Old was defeated.

Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Leopold accompanied the king to the front, commanded an army of 40,000 men, and defeated the much smaller force of Charles XII of Sweden in a hard-fought battle on the island of Rügen on 16 November in alliance with the Danish army of Stralsund.

Louis Pio

His father was an officer in the Danish Army, of French ancestry, and his mother came from a North Jutland bourgeois family.

OPROP!

This gave Christian X and his ministers time to confer with the Danish Army chief General William Wain Prior.

Theudebert I

In about 516 he defeated a Danish army under King Chlochilaich (Hygelac of Beowulf) after it had raided northern Gaul.

Treaty of Ribe

The battle was a decisive victory for Count Adolf IV of Holstein, in part owed to a number of troops from Dithmarschen who abandoned the Danish army during the battle.

William Pryor

William Wain Prior (1876–1946), Danish Major General and the Commander in chief of the Royal Danish Army, 1939–1941