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Żychce
Żychce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Konarzyny, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Konarzyny, north-west of Chojnice, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. Notable residents * Heros von Borcke (1835–1895), Prussian cavalry officer *Josef Rudnick Josef Rudnick (25 May 1917 – 14 July 2009) was a German businessman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. Biography Rudnick was born in Sichts (today Żychce, Kashubia, Poland) in the Prussian Province of West Prussi ... (1917–2009), businessman and politician References Villages in Chojnice County {{Chojnice-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heros Von Borcke
Johann Heinrich August Heros von Borcke (July 23, 1835 – May 10, 1895) was a Prussian cavalry officer and writer. Today, he is best known for his enduring memoir, ''Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence'' (1866), which recounts his two years' service (1862–1864) as a Confederate cavalry officer in the Army of Northern Virginia, during the American Civil War. Family and education Heros von Borcke came from the old Pomeranian noble family von Borcke. His father Theodor von Borcke (1805-1878) was the owner of a manor on Giesenbrügge in the New Mark district of Soldin and since 1856 a member of the Prussian manor house. His mother Therese was born Adloff (1815-1847). He was educated at the ''Franckesche Stiftungen''. Heros von Borcke married Madalene Honig (1845-1883), the daughter of the Gralow landowner Edmund Honig and his wife Karoline, née von Klitzing, in Gralow in the Landsberg an der Warthe district in 1867. In his second marriage in 1885 he married their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
