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Gneisenau may refer to:

  • August von Gneisenau (1760–1831), Prussian field marshal
  • Bruno Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1811-1889), Prussian general
  • One of the German naval ships named after August von Gneisenau:
  • SMS Gneisenau (1879), iron-hulled three-masted frigate, wrecked in 1900
  • SMS Gneisenau, World War I armoured cruiser, launched in 1906 and sunk in 1914
  • SS Gneisenau (1935), a Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner, scrapped in 1950
  • German battleship Gneisenau, a World War II battleship launched in 1936 and scuttled as a blockship in 1945; sister ship to Scharnhorst
  • German frigate Gneisenau, an ex-British training frigate sold to West German Navy in 1957 and scrapped in 1977.
  • Operation Gneisenau, part of the 1918 German Spring Offensive in World War I
  • Gneisenaustraße (Berlin U-Bahn), station on the Berliner U-Bahn (underground railway)

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German battleship Gneisenau

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Gneisenau (German pronunciation: [ˈɡnaɪ̯zənaʊ̯]) was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, in Nazi Germany's...

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Gneisenau

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Gneisenau may refer to: August von Gneisenau (1760–1831), Prussian field marshal Bruno Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1811-1889), Prussian general One of the...

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August Neidhardt von Gneisenau

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August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the...

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SMS Gneisenau

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SMS Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), part of the two-ship Scharnhorst class. Named for the earlier screw...

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German battleship Scharnhorst

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Kriegsmarine. She was the lead ship of her class, which included her sister ship Gneisenau. The ship was built at the Kriegsmarinewerft dockyard in Wilhelmshaven;...

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German spring offensive

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Brest-Litovsk. There were four German offensives, codenamed Michael, Georgette, Gneisenau, and Blücher-Yorck. Michael was the main attack, which was intended to...

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SMS Scharnhorst

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Hamburg, Germany. She was the lead ship of her class, which included SMS Gneisenau. Scharnhorst and her sister were enlarged versions of the preceding Roon...

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John Neihardt

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John Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881 – November 3, 1973) was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer. Born at the end of the...

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Action off Lofoten

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Vizeadmiral Günther Lütjens consisting of the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau met and engaged a British squadron under Admiral Sir William Whitworth...

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Maximilian von Spee

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a tour of the southwest Pacific along with Scharnhorst's sister ship Gneisenau, during which Spee made visits to several ports, including Singapore and...

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Battle of the Falkland Islands

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commanding the German squadron of two armoured cruisers, SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the light cruisers SMS Nürnberg, Dresden and Leipzig, and the colliers...

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HMS Rawalpindi

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sunk in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the first months of the Second World War. Her captain was Edward...

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Kriegsmarine

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the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which participated in the invasion of Norway in 1940, and then in commerce raiding until the Gneisenau was heavily damaged...

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Operation Juno

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engagement of the operation was the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sinking the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and its two escorting...

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Frederick William III of Prussia

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August von Hardenberg, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, and Count August von Gneisenau. They set about reforming Prussia's administration, churches, finance...

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Battle of Waterloo

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a late-night council, Blücher's chief of staff, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, had been distrustful of Wellington's strategy, but Blücher persuaded...

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Battle of the Atlantic

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German surface warships, including 4 battleships (Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Tirpitz), 9 cruisers, 7 raiders, and 27 destroyers. This front ended...

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German cruiser Admiral Hipper

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Germany, Admiral Hipper and Gneisenau left Trondheim on 20 June for a raid towards the Iceland-Faeroes passage, but Gneisenau was torpedoed and damaged...

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Channel Dash

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was evacuated from Brest in Brittany to German ports. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had arrived in Brest on 22 March 1941 after the success of Operation Berlin...

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