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Tannenberg (board Wargame)
Tannenberg may refer to * Tannenberg, Saxony, a town in the district of Annaberg in the German state of Saxony * Tannenberg, East Prussia, modern Stębark in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland * Battle of Tannenberg (1410) or Battle of Grunwald * Battle of Tannenberg (1914) in World War I * Battle of Tannenberg Line in World War II, fought in 1944 in Estonia * Tannenberg Memorial, commemorating the World War I battle * Operation Tannenberg, codename of an extermination action directed at the Polish people during World War II * Tannenbergbund, a far right German political society founded by the German Army general Erich Ludendorff in 1925 * Tannenberg (minelayer), a World War II era German minelayer converted from civilian vessel, see List of World War II ships * V 303 ''Tannenberg'', a World War II ''vorpostenboot'', served as a civilian fishing trawler pre- and post-war * ''Tannenberg'' (film), a 1932 Swiss-German War film * ''Tannenberg'' (video game), a first-person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tannenberg, Saxony
Tannenberg is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony in Germany. History From 1952 to 1990, Tannenberg was part of the Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt of East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state .... References Erzgebirgskreis {{Erzgebirgskreis-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Ships
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also list of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons. Some uncompleted Axis ships are included, out of historic interest. Ships are designated to the country under which they operated for the longest period of the Second World War, regardless of where they were built or previous service history. Naval warfare changed dramatically during the war, with the ascent of the aircraft carrier, and the impact of increasingly capable submarines. Destroyers saw dramatic improvements, as the set a new standard not only for Japanese vessels, but for navies around the world, and are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danneberg
Danneberg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Robert Danneberg (1882-1942), Austrian politician * Thomas Danneberg (born 1942), German actor Sports *Jochen Danneberg (born 1953), East German ski jumper * Rolf Danneberg (born 1953), German athlete in field events * Tim Danneberg (born 1986), German footballer See also *Dannenberg (other) Dannenberg may refer to: Places * Dannenberg (Elbe) Dannenberg is a town in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Jeetzel, approx. 30 km north of Salzwedel, and 50 km south-east of Lün ... {{surname, Danneberg German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Führerhauptquartier Tannenberg
''Führerhauptquartier'' Tannenberg (also known as "Installation T") was a ''Führer'' Headquarters built in 1939 for use as a military command and control facility by Adolf Hitler. It was located near Freudenstadt and Hitler stayed there for a week in 1940 while inspecting the fortresses that formed the Maginot Line. History Tannenberg was constructed on Kniebis Mountain in the heart of the Black Forest on the grounds of an existing installation of Germany's western air defense zone near Freudenstadt. Built by the Organization Todt in the winter of 1939–1940, it has been described as a prototype for the Wolf's Lair. The site's designation, "Tannenberg", was from the Battle of Tannenberg during World War I. Hitler stayed at the ''Führerhauptquartier'' Tannenberg from 28 June to 5 July 1940, following the Fall of France, using it as a base from which to tour the fortresses of the Maginot Line. This is the only time it was known to have been used by Hitler. Most of the bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Tannenberg
David Tannenberg (1728–1804) was a Moravian organ builder who emigrated to Pennsylvania. He is cited as the most important American organ-builder of his time. He constructed a number of organs during his lifetime, as well as other keyboard instruments. Many of the organs that he built are still in use. Biography David Tannenberg was born March 21, 1728, in Berthelsdorf, Upper Lusatia. His parents, Johann Tannenberg and Judith Tannenberg, née Nitschmann, had left Moravia as refugees in 1727. Tannenberg attended schools in the Moravian communities of Ronneburg, Marienborn and eventually Herrnhaag. He received a call to join the Moravian community in Zeist and traveled there in 1748. While in Zeist, Tannenberg began making arrangements to travel with a group of Moravians to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He boarded the Moravian ship ''The Irene'' and landed in America on May 12, 1749. He arrived in Bethlehem the same year. He married Anna Rosina Kern not long after arriving. Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tannenberg (video Game)
''Tannenberg'' is a squad-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game set during World War I. It is a sequel to ''Verdun'', and entered Steam Early Access on November 17, 2017. ''Tannenberg'' left Steam Early Access on February 13, 2019. It was released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 24, 2020. ''Tannenberg'' is inspired by the 1914 Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. The game includes historically accurate World War I weapons, authentic uniforms and equipment, detailed injury and gore modeling, and maps based on the real battlefields of the Eastern Front. The game runs on the Unity engine and was developed by independent studios M2H and Blackmill Games. Gameplay ''Tannenberg'' is a squad based game set on the Eastern Front of World War I that can be played with up to 64 players (40 players on consoles). There are 3 game modes in ''Tannenberg'': Maneuver, Attrition Warfare and Rifle Deathmatch. In April 2019 a temporary 'Wolf Truce' feature was added to the Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tannenberg (film)
''Tannenberg'' is a 1932 Swiss–German war film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Hans Stüwe, Käthe Haack and Jutta Sauer. The film is based on the 1914 Battle of Tannenberg during the First World War. It focuses on a German landowner Captan von Arndt and his family. Production It was shot on location in East Prussia and at UFA's Babelsberg Studios during the summer of 1932. It cost over half a million reichsmarks to make and employed 8,000 people. The film focused on a notable German victory and was in sharp contrast to recent anti-war films such as '' Westfront 1918''. ''Tannenberg'' served as a national symbol in Germany, and was re-issued in 1936 during the Nazi era. The Producers made an effort to make the film as historically accurate as possible, and portrayed the Russian commanders respectfully. It was due to be released on 26 August 1932, the eighteenth anniversary of the battle, but was delayed by the censors acting on a request from the German President Paul v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Trawler V 303 Tannenberg
V 303 ''Tannenberg'' was a German fishing trawler that was requisitioned in the Second World War by the Kriegsmarine for use as a ''vorpostenboot''. She was returned to her owners post war. In 1958, she was re-engined and converted to a cargo ship. In 1970 she was sold to Greece and renamed ''Panaghia''. She was sold to Panama in 1975 and was renamed ''Nikos'' then ''Chantal''. She was wrecked in 1978. Description The ship was long, with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was assessed at , . She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine, which had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by Deschimag Seebeckwerft, Wesermünde, Germany. It was rated at 92nhp. It drove a single screw propeller, and could propel the ship at . History ''Tannenberg'' was built at yard number 527 by Deschimag Seebeckwerft, Wesermünde for the Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefischerei AG, Cuxhaven. She was launched in May 1935 and completed in July. The fishing b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tannenberg (minelayer)
Tannenberg may refer to * Tannenberg, Saxony, a town in the district of Annaberg in the German state of Saxony * Tannenberg, East Prussia, modern Stębark in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland * Battle of Tannenberg (1410) or Battle of Grunwald * Battle of Tannenberg (1914) in World War I * Battle of Tannenberg Line in World War II, fought in 1944 in Estonia * Tannenberg Memorial, commemorating the World War I battle * Operation Tannenberg, codename of an extermination action directed at the Polish people during World War II * Tannenbergbund, a far right German political society founded by the German Army general Erich Ludendorff in 1925 * Tannenberg (minelayer), a World War II era German minelayer converted from civilian vessel, see List of World War II ships * V 303 ''Tannenberg'', a World War II ''vorpostenboot'', served as a civilian fishing trawler pre- and post-war * ''Tannenberg'' (film), a 1932 Swiss-German War film * ''Tannenberg'' (video game), a first-person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stębark
Stębark (1945-46 ''Sztymbark'', german: Tannenberg) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grunwald, within Ostróda County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship or Warmia-Masuria Province or Warmia-Mazury Province (in pl, Województwo warmińsko-mazurskie, is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Olsztyn. The voivodeship has an are ..., in northern Poland. The village is chiefly known for two historic battles which took place there: the 1410 Battle of Grunwald and the (Second) Battle of Tannenberg in World War I. Geography It is situated on the western edge of the historic Masuria region, southeast of the Dylewska Góra range. It lies approximately south-east of Ostróda and south-west of the regional capital Olsztyn. The village has a population of 630. From 1975 to 1998 it belonged to Olsztyn Voivodeship. History The settlement was first mentioned as ''Tannenberge'' about 1335, when the area w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tannenbergbund
The ''Tannenbergbund'' (, Tannenberg Union, TB) was a nationalist German political society formed in September 1925 at the instigation of Konstantin Hierl under the patronage of the former German Army general Erich Ludendorff. Part of the Völkisch movement, it was meant to counteract the ''Der Stahlhelm'' veterans association as well as the reorganized '' Sturmabteilung'' (SA) of the Nazi Party. The TB failed to meet the goal of a far-right collective movement and sank into insignificance long before it was officially banned by the Nazi authorities in September 1933. Founding During Germany's early Weimar period, Ludendorff had joined the chauvinist Aufbau Vereinigung and met with Adolf Hitler through the agency of Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter. He participated in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch on 9 November 1923, after which their relationship deteriorated increasingly. While Ludendorff apparently despised Hitler, he nevertheless backed the National Socialist Freedom Movem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Tannenberg
Operation Tannenberg (german: Unternehmen Tannenberg) was a codename for one of the anti-Polish extermination actions by Nazi Germany that were directed at the Poles during the opening stages of World War II in Europe, as part of the ''Generalplan Ost'' for the German colonization of the East. The shootings were conducted with the use of a proscription list ('' Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen''), compiled by the Gestapo in the span of two years before the 1939 invasion. The top secret lists identified more than 61,000 members of the Polish elite: activists, intelligentsia, scholars, clergy, actors, former officers and others, who were to be interned or shot. Members of the German minority living in Poland assisted in preparing the lists.Unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
