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Date 1952 - 1990

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The Siege of Magdeburg
Sack of Magdeburg

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Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Walther Model
German military officer
Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing
Karl Leberecht Immermann
German author
Steuben, Baron von
Baron von Steuben
German military officer
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Johann Bernhard Basedow
German educator
Georg Kaiser, c. 1928
Georg Kaiser
German dramatist
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
Prussian physicist, engineer, and philosopher
Friedrich von Spielhagen.
Friedrich von Spielhagen
German writer
Norbert of Xanten, Saint
Saint Norbert of Xanten
archbishop of Magdeburg
Albert of Brandenburg, engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1523
Albert
German cardinal, margrave of Brandenburg, and elector of Mainz
Theodor Krancke
German naval officer
Agricola, Martin: Musica instrumentalis deudsch
Martin Agricola
German composer
Karl Wallenda
American acrobat
Hans Cloos
German geologist
Hirt
Hermann Hirt
German linguist