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Born August 11, 1778
Died October 15, 1852 (aged 74) • Saxony
Subjects Of Study Germany • nationalism

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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
Johann Bernhard Basedow
German educator
Alfred Hugenberg
German political leader
Heinrich von Sybel
German historian
Heinrich Gagern, detail from a lithograph by Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst, 1825
Heinrich, baron von Gagern
German politician
Moritz Hauptmann
German composer
Hans Christoph, baron von Gagern
German politician and writer
Walther Bothe
German physicist
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
German author
Oskar von Miller
German engineer
Maximilian, baron von Gagern
German diplomat and politician
Ernst Hasse
German nationalist
Frederick III, 1884
Frederick III
king of Prussia and emperor of Germany
Eduard Lasker, engraving, 1861
Eduard Lasker
Prussian politician
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
August Thyssen
German industrialist
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer

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