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Born June 21, 1818 • Coburg • Germany
Died August 22, 1893 (aged 75) • Thuringia • Germany

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Ernest II, detail from a lithograph by C. Baugniet after a portrait by H. Thorburn, 1844
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Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Friedrich Ebert, c. 1924.
Friedrich Ebert
president of Weimar Republic
William II.
William II
emperor of Germany
Bebel, August
August Bebel
German socialist
Alfred von Tirpitz
Alfred von Tirpitz
German statesman
Bernhard, Fürst von Bülow
Bernhard, prince von Bülow
chancellor of Germany
Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst
Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
German chancellor
Georg Michaelis
Georg Michaelis
chancellor of Germany
Ernest I
duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Georg, count von Hertling
Georg, count von Hertling
German statesman
Scheidemann, Philipp
Philipp Scheidemann
German politician
Eduard Lasker, engraving, 1861
Eduard Lasker
Prussian politician
Richard von Kühlmann
German foreign minister
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant