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unusual facts about Stettin



Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien

In 1813 Tauentzien was named Military Governor between the Oder and the Vistula Rivers, and he succeeded in the siege of Stettin.

Bredow

Szczecin-Drzetowo, a suburb of Szczecin, known in German as Stettin-Bredow

Casimir III

Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania (1348–1372), oldest son of Barnim III, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin

Clemens Krauss

Krauss made the rounds of regional centers, conducting in Riga (1913-1914), Nuremberg (1915) and Stettin (1916-1921) (formerly part of Pomerania in Germany; now part of Poland).

Ernest III, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

:: * Sophie (1579-1618) married 1607 Duke Philip II of Pomerania-Stettin

Esrum Abbey

Esrum in its turn became in the course of time the mother house of a number of other important Cistercian foundations: Vitskøl Abbey and Sorø Abbey in Denmark; Ryd Abbey, now in Schleswig-Holstein; and Kołbacz Abbey near Stettin.

Felix Linnemann

Throughout 1937, Linnemann was transferred as a commander of the Kriminalpolizei from Berlin to Stettin, and was also attached to Hanover.

Friedrich Gustav Jaeger

On 20 July 1944, the day of the attempt on Hitler's life, Jaeger was commander of the Panzer reserve troops in defence districts II (Stettin) and XXI (Kalisch).

Friedrich-August Schack

On 26 March 1945 Schack was assigned to lead the XXXII Army corps, on the Oder near Stettin.

Georg Konrad Morgen

Born to a railwayman in Frankfurt, Morgen graduated from the University of Frankfurt and the Hague Academy of International Law, before becoming a judge in Stettin.

German auxiliary cruiser Stier

After this operation was canceled, the now renamed Stier was modified into an auxiliary cruiser in April 1941, first at the Wilton shipyard Rotterdam and later at Oderwerke, Stettin, and Kriegsmarinewerft, in Gotenhafen (Gdynia).

Gudrun Corvinus

Gudrun Corvinus (14 December 1931 in Stettin – 1 January 2006 in Pune) was a German archaeologist of the Nepal Research Centre in Kathmandu.

Heather Tanner

It was later learned that his parents and brother were deported from their native Stettin (then Germany) to Piaski, Poland and that the Germans murdered them there in gas chambers.

Herzogenbusch concentration camp

Helga Deen (Stettin, Germany, 6 April 1925 – Sobibor, 16 July 1943) was the author of a diary, discovered in 2004, which describes her stay in a Dutch prison camp, Kamp Vught, where she was brought during World War II at the age of 18.

Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg

His titles also included "duke (Dux) of Stettin, Pomerania, Cassubia, Vandalorum and Crossen", according to the terms of the Treaty of Grimnitz, although the Pomeranian titles were only nominal.

John Argyris

His first job was at the Gollnow company in Stettin, where he was involved among other things in high radio transmitter masts.

John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania

Johann Friedrich together with his brother, Barnim XII, received the Teilherzogtum Pomerania-Stettin, while his other brothers, Ernst Ludwig and Bogislaw XIII, received Pomerania-Wolgast and Casimir VI received the bishopric of Cammin, which he took over from Johann Friedrich in 1574.

John V, Duke of Mecklenburg

On 17 September 1436 he married Anna of Pomerania-Stettin (died after 14 May 1447), the daughter of Casimir V, Duke of Pomerania.

Junkers Jumo 211

From 1937 to mid-1944, production was spread between factories in Magdeburg, Köthen, Leipzig, Stettin and Strasburg.

Karl Emil Lischke

Karl Emil Lischke (born 30 December 1819 in Stettin – died 1886 in Bonn) was a German lawyer, politician, diplomat, and amateur naturalist.

Karl Heinrich von Boetticher

Born in Stettin in Pomerania, the son of a judge, Boetticher studied law in the University of Würzburg and the University of Berlin.

Nacht und Nebel

The prisoners were often moved apparently at random from prison to prison such as Fresnes Prison in Paris, Waldheim near Dresden, Leipzig, Potsdam, Lübeck and Stettin.

Oskar Rieding

Born in Stettin (early North of Germany), he attended first the recently founded Academy of Musical Arts in Berlin, and later the Leipzig Conservatory.

Otto Friedrich Bollnow

He was born the son of a rector in Stettin in what was then northwest Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) and went to school in the town of Anklam.

Otto Theodor von Manteuffel

He became a Landrat (local administrator) of the district of Luckau in 1833; in 1841, he was promoted to Oberregierungsrat (a senior administrative position) in Königsberg, and in 1843 he was made Vice-President of the government in Stettin.

Otto-Wilhelm Wandesleben

In February 1944 Wandsleben worked as a cultural advisor to the Sicherheitsdienst division in Stettin.

Pirch II

Lieutenant-Genearl Otto Karl Lorenz von Pirch or Pirch II (23 May 1765 in Stettin in Pomerania – 26 May 1824 in Berlin) was a Prussian officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

Rudolf Höber

Rudolf Höber (born 27 December 1873, Stettin, Germany; died 5 September 1953, Philadelphia, USA) was a German physician-investigator in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Struga, Szczecin

Hohenkrug near Stettin was the first village in the Duchy of Pomerania clearly recorded as German (villa teutonicorum) in 1173, at the beginning of the medieval German settlement of Pomerania (Ostsiedlung).

Treaty of Pyritz

In 1464, the dispute escalated due to the death of Otto III, Duke of Pomerania: Otto III had died without issue, and left his partition of Pomerania, the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin vacated.

Vang stave church

In September they were delivered at the harbour of Lærdalsøyri at the head of the Sognefjord, where they were loaded on board the Haabet, bound for Stettin.

Westminster College Gymnasium

Westminster College Gymnasium in Fulton, Missouri was the site of Winston Churchill's March 5, 1946 "Sinews of Peace" speech, in which he stated that "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." The speech at Westminster College focused on the United Nations, nuclear proliferation and Soviet expansion.


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