The battalion was present at the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April, halting its advance that week – after elements had pushed as far forward as Tannenberg, on the Czech border – to be deployed in Zeitz as a garrison unit until the end of the war, some weeks later.
The failure of the Schlieffen Plan offensive in 1914 is attributed in part to French air superiority blinding German reconnaissance, but the German victory at Tannenberg is thought to have been helped by prompt response to air intelligence about Russian movements.
Friedrich August von Schönberg (Tannenberg, June 12, 1795 – Dresden, April 5, 1856), Lord of Weningen-Auma, Zodelsdorf and Silberfeld, was a German Nobleman.
During the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, Bremse escorted the auxiliary minelayers Tannenberg and Hansestadt Danzig and in October, she escorted troop transports in the Baltic.
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Eastern Prussia had actually become front line in the early stages of war and a large portion of the province was under Russian occupation, until the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes turned fortune in Germanys favour.
One of the most famous standard-bearers of Kraków was Marcin of Wrocimowice (d. 1442) who carried the national banner in the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) in 1410.
Although the battle actually took place close to Allenstein (Olsztyn), General Erich Ludendorff's aide, Colonel Max Hoffmann, suggested naming it after Tannenberg, in the interest of German nationalist ideology, to counter the defeat of the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) in 1410 by Poles and Lithuanians.
Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (born 11 April 1818 in Laibach; died 17 August 1893 in Berchtesgaden) was an Austrian biographer.
Other locations include the battles of Antietam and Tannenberg, and the German World War II prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III.
(After the 1945 conquest by Soviet Union and Poland Grünfelde was renamed Grunwald and Tannenberg was renamed Stębark.)
Hindenburg, and his chief of staff Erich Ludendorff, then destroyed the two invading Russian armies at the Battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes.
During the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War, the 1410 Battle of Grunwald (known as the (First) Battle of Tannenberg in German sources) took place in the vicinity of the town, whereby the Knights suffered a historic defeat.
Late in the war as Soviet forces approached Germany's border, Oskar von Hindenburg supervised the dismantling of the Tannenberg Memorial honoring his father's 1914 victory over the Russians at Tannenberg.
Sixtus of Tannenberg was a son of Johann Tannberg of Aurolzmünster and Ursula von Rohr, a sister of Archbishop Bernhard von Rohr.