Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (abbreviated Deschimag) was a cooperation of eight German shipyards in the period 1926 to 1945. The...
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German cruiser Karlsruhe (category Königsberg-class cruisers (1927))
Karlsruhe was a light cruiser, the second member of the Königsberg class, and served from November 1929 to May 1938, and again from November 1939 to April...
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as Willem Van Driel Sr.. Sold in 1927 to Kohlen-Import und Poseidon, Königsberg, renamed Rheinland. Requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1940. Seized...
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award Name Description Residence 1842 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Astronomer Königsberg 1842 August Boeckh Antiquity researcher Berlin 1842 Franz Bopp Linguist...
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Wolfgang Weyrauch (category Writers from Königsberg)
wrote under the pseudonym name Joseph Scherer. Wolfgang Weyrauch was born Königsberg, Prussia as the son of a surveyor. After attending gymnasium, and receiving...
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with another vessel which necessitated major repairs. Like the preceding Königsberg-class cruisers upon which her design was based, Dresden was armed with...
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of the Königsberg and Leipzig classes were built between 1926 and 1935. These six cruisers all saw combat during World War II; two, Königsberg and Karlsruhe...
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Schell – staff writer, 1967–1987, 2000 Robyn Schiff – poet, 2013 Stacy Schiff – nonfiction writer Stephen Schiff – staff writer, 1992–2003 Peter Schjeldahl...
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course of their careers. For example, the Reichsmarine wanted to equip the Königsberg-class cruisers with 19 cm (7.5 in) guns, instead of the 15 cm (5.9 in)...
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Saget (1956–2022), actor, stand-up comedian, and game show host Richard Schiff (born 1955), actor (The West Wing) Steven Seagal (born 1952), actor, screenwriter...
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