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Paul von HindenburgWho's Who: Germany
Updated - Saturday, 5 June, 2004

This page of the Who's Who section of the site lists biographical entries by country - in this case, Germany.  Here you'll find details on the life of the Kaiser, Wilhelm II.

There are also biographies of the many German commanders in the field, of the air war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen (the 'Red Baron'), in addition to entries for a wide variety of other personalities.

Duke Albrecht, General
Karl Allmenroder, Fighter Pilot
Prince Max von Baden, Chancellor
Gustav Bachmann, Chief of Admiralty Staff
Max Bauer, Artillery Commander
Paul Bäumer, Fighter Pilot
Oliver Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay, Fighter Pilot
Fritz von Below, General
Otto von Below, General
Fritz Bernert, Fighter Pilot
Count von Bernstorff, Ambassador to U.S.
Hans Berr, Fighter Pilot
Rudolf Berthold, Fighter Pilot
Hans von Beseler, Military Governor, Poland
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck, 19th Century Chancellor
Oswald Boelcke, Fighter Pilot
Felix von Bothmer, General
Karl Boy-Ed, Naval Attaché to U.S.
Georg Bruchmuller, Artillery Colonel
Franz Buchner, Fighter Pilot
Karl von Bulow, General
Eduard von Capelle, Naval Minister
Berthold von Deimling, Field Marshall
Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor
Hermann von Eichhorn, General
Karl von Einem, General
Matthias Erzberger, Politician
Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of General Staff
Anton Fokker, Dutch/German Aircraft Designer
Hermann von Francois, General
Alexander von Freytag-Loringhoven, Dep Chf of Gen. Staff
Max von Gallwitz, General
Herman Goering, Fighter Pilot
Baron von der Goltz, Field Marshal (Turkish Army)
Wilhelm Groener, General
Hugo Haase, Co-chairman of SPD Party
Fritz Haber, Scientist
Max Klemens von Hausen, General
Josias von Heeringen, General
Prince Heinrich of Prussia, Admiral
Karl Helfferich, Minister of Finance/Interior
Count Hertling, Chancellor
Paul von Hindenburg, Chief of General Staff
Paul von Hintze, Foreign Minister
Admiral Franz von Hipper, Commander, High Seas Fleet
Adolf Hitler, Soldier
Max Hoffmann, General
Henning von Holtzendorff, Chief of Naval General Staff
Oskar von Hutier, General
Max Immelmann, Fighter Pilot
Frederich von Ingenohl, Commander, High Seas Fleet
Josef Jacobs, Fighter Pilot
Gottlieb von Jagow, Foreign Minister
Hans Kirschstein, Fighter Pilot
Alexander von Kluck, General
Kress von Kressenstein, General
Prince Leopold of Bavaria, General
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Colonel
Karl Liebknecht, Revolutionary Politician
Otto Liman von Sanders, General
Alexander von Linsingen, General
Carl Lody, Convicted German Spy
Erich Lowenhardt, Fighter Pilot
Erich Ludendorff, Quartermaster General
Rosa Luxemburg, Revolutionary
August von Mackensen, Field Marshal
Georg von der Marwitz, General
Georg Michaelis, Chancellor
Carl Menckhoff, Fighter Pilot
Helmuth von Moltke, Chief of General Staff
Georg von Muller, Chief of Naval Cabinet
Walter Nernst, Scientist
Gustav Noske, Politician
Franz von Papen, Military Attaché to U.S.
Wenzel von Plehve, General
Hugo von Pohl, Commander, High Seas Fleet
Maximilian von Prittwitz, General
Ferdinand von Quast, General
Walter Rathenau, Head of KRA
Ludwig von Reuter, Admiral at Scapa Flow
Lothar von Richthofen, Fighter Pilot
Manfred von Richthofen, The 'Red Baron'
Fritz Rumey, Fighter Pilot
Crown Prince Rupprecht, General
Reinhardt Scheer, Chief of Admiralty Staff
Philip Scheidemann, President, Weimar Republic
Alfred von Schlieffen, Pre-war Chief of General Staff
Ludwig von Schroder, Commander, Belgian Coast Navy
Hans von Seeckt, Chief of General Staff
Wilhelm Solf, Colonial/Foreign Minister
Admiral Wilhelm Souchon, Admiral
Maximilian von Spee, Admiral
Gustav Stresemann, Post-war Chancellor
Karl von Tappen, Scientist
Alfred von Tirpitz, Naval Minister
Adolf von Trotha, Admiral
Ernst Udet, Fighter Pilot
Joseph Veltjens, Fighter Pilot
Werner Voss, Fighter Pilot
Otto Weddigen, U-boat Captain
Kuno von Westarp, Politician
Kaiser Wilhelm II, Monarch
Crown Prince Wilhelm, General, Heir Presumptive
Kurt Wolff, Fighter Pilot (Germany)
Remus von Woyrsch, Field Marshal
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Inventor of Zeppelin Aircraft
Arthur Zimmermann, Foreign Secretary

By 1918 the percentage of women to men working in Britain had risen to 37% from 24% at the start of the war.


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