Jasta 41 was founded at Flieger-Abteilung (Flier Detachment) 4, Posen on 18 June 1917.
The forces of the Polish Military Organisation were able to oust the German administration from the bulk of the Greater Polish lands, whereafter the Posen governor (Landeshauptmann) Ernst von Heyking was forced to retire to Meseritz (Międzyrzecz) and de facto only ruled over the far western, predominantly German settled districts at the border with the adjacent Prussian provinces of Pomerania, Brandenburg and Silesia.
Posen has a strong Polish background as 61.3% of its inhabitants are reported to have Polish ancestry (the highest number in the U.S.).
From 1921 to 1939, Poznań Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland, created after World War I from the Prussian-German province of Poznań.
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The two most important cessions of territory were the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to France and of a large stretch of territory in West Prussia, Posen, and Upper Silesia to Poland.
Posen was friends with Smokey Stover cartoonist Bill Holman, and the famed nonsense phrase "1506 nix nix" seen in Smokey Stover was an inside joke between the two cartoonists.
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Alvah Posen (1895 - June 10, 1960) was an American cartoonist on several comic strips, but he is best known for his strip Sweeney & Son and as co-producer of the now-lost Marx Brothers film, Humor Risk (1921).
Struggling between his Polish subjects and the Prussian authorities, Radziwiłł found himself with little power, as effective power was executed by Oberpräsident Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti and the district governors heading the Regierungsbezirke of Posen and Bromberg.
He was made professor of divinity and attracted the attention of Pope Gregory XIII, who on the establishment of the Jesuit college at Posen in 1581, appointed him rector.
The Bishops of Münster and Paderborn, fired by the example of Clemens August, recalled the assent they had formerly given to the agreement; while Martin von Dunin, the Archbishop of Gnesen (Gniezno) and Posen (Poznań), was imprisoned at Kolberg (Kołobrzeg) for the same offence that had sent Clemens August to Minden.
He has appeared on numerous recordings as a guest musician and has recorded or produced artists including Collective Soul, Kyp Harness, Kiran Ahluwalia, Hayden, The Waltons, Adam Faux, The Supers (Fall Down Go Boom), Rebecca Campbell, Martin Posen, and Pinchas Zuckerman.
In 1904 he purchased a plot of land in Podgradowice (Kaisertreu) (today: Drzymałowo) in the Posen district of Bomst, but found that the newly implemented Prussian Feuerstättengesetz ("furnace law") enabled local officials to deny him as a Pole the permission to build a permanent dwelling with a heating on his land.
Eduard Raimund Baierlein (29 April 1819, Posen – 12 October 1901) was a German Lutheran missionary.
It was named by its early German settlers for their old home town of Friedheim, Germany, a small town in the Posen region of West Prussia.
After training at Posen, he served first with FA 67, then with Royal Prussian Jasta 14.
"Gonzercewo bei Bromberg/Provinz Posen/Westpreussen" was the birth place (09.09.1893) of Margarete ("Marga") Siegroth, née Boden (daughter of an East Prussian landowner), a nurse and manager of a small clinic in Berlin, who married Heinrich Himmler in 1928 and became Mrs. Himmler.
Posen and Ross identify such prominent scholars and political figures as Earl Ravenal, Patrick Buchanan and Doug Bandow.
Heinrich von Brandt (2 August 1789 Łąkie near Posen – 23 January 1868 Berlin) was a Prussian general and military author.
Lissner was born in Posen, and emigrated in 1856 to Victoria (Australia), where, after a varied experience on the gold diggings, he went to New Zealand and subsequently to Queensland, where he first settled at Ravenswood, Queensland and then moved to Charters Towers.
He studied at Berlin and Leipzig, held various educational appointments from 1833 onwards at Berlin, Danzig and Posen (Poznań), and became in 1859 head of the gymnasium in Gotha, where he died on in 1882.
Johann Friedrich Krummnow was born in 1811 in Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, (later known as Poznań, Poland) and was raised in a German community.
Kazimierz Kordylewski (b. 11 October 1903 in Posen - 11 March 1981 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish astronomer.
The Moses Mielziner family, Kenneth's paternal grandfather, immigrated from Posen, Prussia, and Kenneth's grandfather was a Reform Rabbi, Moses Mielziner associated with Hebrew Union College Moses Mielziner was a descendant of Joseph Caro.
He was educated at Posen, and in the Royal Academic High School of Music in Berlin.
MacDonald has appeared on television with former presidential candidates, Congressmen and Senators, as well as notables such as Pat Buchanan, Ben Stein, Robert Reich, Art Laffer, Stephen Moore, Steve Forbes, energy expert Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, and Adam Posen, co-author with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Frederic Mishkin of a book about inflation-targeting.
Maksymilian Jackowski (11 October 1815, in Slupia, Grand Duchy of Posen – 14 January 1905, in Posen) was a Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society (Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze), patron of the agricultural circles.
Kreis Meseritz, a historical administrative subdivision of Posen District
Fränkel (Zeitschrift, iii. 387) doubts that Moses ever was at Posen.
Posen also recorded it on his CD The Old Songs Home, with a jangle pop musical arrangement reminiscent of The Byrds.
A further 154,000 colonists, including locals, were settled by the Prussian Settlement Commission in the provinces of Posen and West Prussia before World War I. Military personnel was included in the population census.
Congruent with the Kingdom of Prussia proper (i.e. former Ducal and Royal Prussia), its territory, like the Greater Polish territory of Posen, was not part of the German Confederation.
In 1938 the districts of Arnswalde and Friedeberg (Neumark) were merged into a new district called Posen-West Prussia frontier district, which was transferred from Brandenburg to the adjacent more northerly Province of Pomerania.
Richard Kandt (* 17 December 1867 in Posen; † 29 April 1918 in Nuremberg; original name Kantorowicz) was a German physician and explorer of Africa.
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke (born 11 March 1913 in Schrimm, Posen, killed in action 23 March 1944 near Schöppenstedt) was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1935 until his death.
Altenburg was born in Schneidemühl, Posen-West Prussia (today Piła, Poland) and was conscripted as a Marinehelfer (Navy aide) in 1944 serving at Heligoland.