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Born October 15, 1795 • Germany
Died January 2, 1861 (aged 65) • Potsdam • Germany
Title / Office king (1840-1861), Prussia
Notable Family Members father Frederick William III • brother William I
Role In Punctation of Olmütz • Revolutions of 1848

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prime minister of Austria
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king of Prussia
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Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
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prime minister of Prussia
Karl August, Fürst von Hardenberg
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Carl von Clausewitz
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Frederick William I
king of Prussia
Frederick I
Frederick I
king of Prussia
Joseph Maria von Radowitz.
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August, Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau
August, Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau
Prussian field marshal
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt
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Frederick William II
king of Prussia
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Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
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Frederick III
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