Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was a Prussian general.
The Order of the Black Eagle was the highest order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Prussia. The order was founded on 17 January 1701 by Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg. In his Dutch exile after World War I, deposed Emperor Wilhelm II continued to award the order to his family. He made his second wife, Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz, a Lady in the Order of the Black Eagle.
The Blumenthal family is a Lutheran and Roman Catholic German noble family, originally from Brandenburg-Prussia. Other (unrelated) families of this name exist in Switzerland and formerly in Russia, and many unrelated families called Blumenthal, without "von", are to be found worldwide.
August Ludwig Freiherr von Senarclens-Grancy was the firstborn son of three sons and four daughters of César Auguste, Baron von Senarclens de Grancy, and his wife Élisabeth Claudine Marie-Rose de Loriol. Senarclens de Grancy is reputed to have been the long-time lover of Wilhelmine of Baden, the Grand Duchess consort of Hesse, and the actual father by her of Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and Prince Alexander of Hesse.
The House of Finck von Finckenstein is a noble family classified as Uradel. It is one of the oldest Prussian aristocratic families extant, dating back to the 12th century in the Duchy of Carinthia.
Friedrich Wilhelm, Count of Brandenburg was a morganatic son of King Frederick William II of Prussia and politician, who served as Minister President of Prussia from 1848 until his death during the reign of his nephew Frederick William IV
Count Joachim Karl Ludwig Mortimer von Maltzan, Freiherr von Wartenberg und Penzlin was a Prussian diplomat and Foreign Minister from 1841 to 1842.
Frederick August Charles, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen was a German general of the Napoleonic Wars and nobleman of the house of Hohenlohe.
Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg was a German noblewoman. She was the most senior woman at the Prussian court from 1810 to 1823. She was styled as "Princess Wilhelm of Prussia".
The Schlieffen family is the name of an old German noble family from Pomerania. The family, branches of which still exist today, originates in Kolberg.
The Groeben family is the name of an old German noble family, originating in the Altmark region. The lords von der Groeben belonged to the nobility of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, and moved from there to the Margraviate of Brandenburg, then to East Prussia. Members of the family held the title of Count in Prussia, granted to them on 19 September 1786 by King Frederick William II. Various branches still exist today.
Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix, baptized Quirin Frideric de Forcade, aka Friedrich Quirin von Forcade, aka Frédéric Quérin de Forcade, was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General, the second son of Jean de Forcade de Biaix, an early Huguenot immigrant to Brandenburg-Prussia and a descendant of the noble family of Forcade. He was one of Frederick the Great's most active and most treasured officers. He was wounded three times and once left for dead on the battlefield. Together with his wife, he fathered 23 children.
Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix, aka Heinrich Friedrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix, aka Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold Marquis de Forcade de Biaix, was a Royal Prussian lieutenant colonel. He served in the Prussian Army from 1761 to 1793. His last command was as commanding officer of the 10th Prussian Fusilier Battalion, with which he served in the Rhine Campaigns of 1791, where he was awarded the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order of merit for heroism, Knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite (1791). He left the Prussian Army after 32 years of service in 1793 as the result of invalidity. At the time of his death, he was the owner of Schleibitz Manor, near Oels, Silesia.
Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda, was a German violinist and composer of Bohemian origin.
Joachim Bernhardt von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1726–1793) was a Prussian officer credited with saving the life of Frederick the Great at the Battle of Kunersdorf. At the time, he was a cavalry captain in Hans Joachim von Zieten's Hussar regiment. He became the head of gendarmes regiment, and inspector general of the cavalry of Brandenburg March and Magdeburg in 1775. He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1785 and general of cavalry in 1788. Frederick awarded him the Order Pour le Mérite and the Order of the Black Eagle. In 1851, Prittwitz was included on the panels of the Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great as one of the key figures in the establishment of the Prussia state.
Karl Christoph Freiherr von der Goltz was a lieutenant general in the Prussian army during the reign of Frederick the Great.
Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Karl Hugo, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest was a German nobleman, politician, mining industrialist and general in the armies of the kingdom of Württemberg and the kingdom of Prussia.
Gustav Adolf Leopold von Rauch was a major general in the Prussian Army.
Johann Bonaventura von Rauch was a Prussian Army major general. His sons Gustav, Leopold and Friedrich Wilhelm also took up military careers and became general as well.
Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg, was a Prussian politician and diplomat who served as Envoy to Saxony and Denmark).
