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4 unusual facts about Province of Brandenburg


Black Reichswehr

After the Third Silesian Uprising, several labour battalions were created from former Freikorps units under the command of Major Fedor von Bock, comprising about 2,000 service members and further 18,000 reservists, concentrated around the garrison town of Küstrin in Brandenburg.

Charlottenburg Town Hall

It was built between 1899 and 1905 at the behest of the then independent city of Charlottenburg in the Prussian province of Brandenburg.

Friedrich Graf von Wrangel

As governor of Berlin and commander-in-chief of Brandenburg (appointments which he held till his death) he proclaimed a state of siege, and ejected the Liberal president and members of the Chamber.

Wilhelm Kube

In 1928 he was appointed Gauleiter of Brandenburg and speaker of the tiny Nazi party fraction (6 seats) in the Prussian Landtag (Prussian state legislature).


Armgard of Sierstorpff-Cramm

After the death of her husband in 1934, Armgard managed an estate in Reckenwalde, Province of Brandenburg (now Wojnowo, Poland), together with her partner Alexis Pantchoulidzew.

Cybinka

From 1582 on Ziebingen was a possession of the Protestant Order of Saint John at Łagów, from 1815 it was part of the Prussian province of Brandenburg and held by the Finck von Finckenstein noble family.

Emilie Snethlage

Maria Emilie Snethlage was born in Kraatz (now part of Gransee) in the Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, and educated privately at her father's house (Rev. Emil Snethlage).

Eva-Maria Hagen

Eva-Maria Hagen (born Eva-Maria Buchholz, 19 October 1934 in Kołczyn, Province of Brandenburg, now Poland) is a German actress and singer.

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

In the south it bordered with the Prussian province of Brandenburg (with the exclaves of Rossow and Schönberg near Wittstock) and in the southwest with the Amt Neuhaus district held by the Kingdom of Hanover, which was incorporated into the Prussian province of Hanover after the Austro-Prussian War in 1866.

Hans Freudenthal

Freudenthal was born in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, on 17 September 1905, the son of a Jewish teacher.


see also

Grunewald Tower

In 1897 Teltow, a rural district of the Province of Brandenburg, mandated the construction of a memorial tower to mark the 100th birthday of the German Emperor Wilhelm I (d. 1888).