Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen: Did you mean...?

A group of German generals attempted to assassinate the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) using a bomb on 20 July 1944 but failed. The conspirators were against Hitler's conduct of the Second World...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher who famously summarised his pessimistic view of human nature in his greatest work, Leviathan, published in 1651. Hobbes believed that the life of humanity in the state of nature...

Portrait of Heros von Borcke in 1864, original copyright by E. O. Wiggins, c. 1914. Von Borcke (1835-1895) was a Prussian Confederate who served under J. E. B. Stuart in the American Civil War...

A 1629 portrait of the mercenary General Albrecht von Wallenstein, leader of the Imperial forces during the Thirty Years' War. (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich)

A photograph of the German general Erich von Manstein (1887-1973), shown on the left, after the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 during the Second World War (1939-45). The port in the Crimea was captured by Axis forces...

Modern statue of Katharina von Bora (Martin Luther's wife) on the compound of the Lutherhaus, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

A 1906 photograph of Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913). The field marshal developed the Schlieffen plan, Germany's plan of attack on France devised in 1905 for execution should war break out between the two states. The plan...

A colourised photograph of the German general Hans von Seeckt (1866-1936). Seeckt was head of the German Army through the 1920s.

The corpse of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) who was found guitly of war crimes and hanged 16 October 1946 after the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46).

A 1924 photograph of General Erich von Ludendorff (1865-1937), Commander-in-Chief of the German Army during the First World War (1914-18). US National Archives