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| 1227 | Frederick II |  |
| 8th Sep Brindisi Embarks on a new Crusade to the Holy Land but his army is stricken with fever |
| 11th Sep Otranto Lands at Otranto |
| 1757 | Frederick II the Great | |
| 1st Dec Liegnitz Joins up with the remnants of Brunswick's troops, takes the offensives & marches east |
| 1792 | Frederick William II | |
| 7th Feb Paris Takes advantage of chaos in France to mobilize the Austro-Prussian troops |
| 1850 | Frederick William IV | |
| 6th Nov The Prussian army is mobilized |
| 8th Nov Hesse Shots are exchanged between Austrian & Prussian soldiers, the 1st since 1778 |
| 9th Nov Alsace The French mobilize in Alsace & direct Prussian & Austrian aggression is diffused |
| 1850 | Manteuffel, Otto von | |
| 6th Nov The Prussian Army is mobilized |
| 1859 | Charles Anthony | |
| 14th June Prussia begins to mobilize against France |
| 1866 | Moltke | |
| June Gitschin Moltke's eastern armies converge on Gitschin |
| 1870 | Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von | |
| 16th Jan Bavaria Bavaria & Baden mobilize under the terms of the 1866 military treaties |
| 14th July The Landwehr is mobilized |
| 31st July Berlin Sets out as a major-general with William to command the armies in the field |
| 1870 | Frederick Charles | |
| 28th July Mobilizes the 2nd Army in the centre |
| 1870 | Moltke | |
| 28th July Mobilizes the German forces, uses the same plan against the Austrians in 1866 |
| 1870 | Steinmetz, Karl von | |
| 28th July Mobilizes the 1st Army in the north |
| 1870 | Wilhelm I | |
| 31st July Berlin Sets out from Berlin to assume command of his armies in the field |
| 1900 | Wilhelm II | |
| 27th July Bremerhaven Present at Bremerhavan when 4,000 German soldiers set sail for China |
| 31st July Bremerhaven Compares his army to the Huns & himself as Moses leading the Israelites in China |
| 1909 | Holtzendorf | |
| Opposes expansion by Tirpitz & concentration of naval forces in the Nth Sea |
| 1914 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 31st July Munich Photographed in a crowd clamouring for war |
| 1914 | Wilhelm II | |
| 30th July Berlin Proposes Germany call off her mobilization but is turned down by the General Staff |
| 1915 | Holtzendorf | |
| Claims submarine warfare can end the war in 6 months, forced to resign in Aug 1918 |
| 1917 | Theobald, Bethmann Hollweg von | |
| 9th Jan Silesia At a GHQ meeting agrees to unrestricted submarine warfare |
| 1918 | Maximilian of Baden | |
| 7th Nov Berlin The Demobilization office is setup |
| 1933 | Goering, Herman | |
| Berlin Calls up SA & SS members as "police auxiliaries" |
| 1938 | Raeder, Erich | |
| 27th Sep Appeals to Hitler not to begin a war |
| 1939 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 22nd Aug Berlin Address es generals saying that "Might is right" |
| 21st Oct Berlin Gives the armed forces orders for the defence of Germany |
| 24th Nov Berlin The armed forces are ordered to be ready for the occupation of Danzig |
| 17th Dec Berlin The armed forces are ordered to be ready for the occupation of the rest of Czech |
| 1939 | Schmundt, Rudolf | |
| 3rd May Berlin Takes minutes at a Chancellery conference when Hitler declares war is inevitable |
| 1940 | Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf von | |
| Sep Commands Army Group A & has tactical Command over Army Group D |
| 1942 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| July Splits Army Group Sth into 2, Army Group A to go into the Caucasus & Army Group B |
| 1942 | Paulus, Friedrich von | |
| Jan Kharkov Moves the 6th Army HQ to Kharkov |
| 1943 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 3rd Nov Directive 51, reserves from the West will not be sent to the East or the Mediterranean |
| 1943 | Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen | |
| 15th Aug Mobilizes Army Group B which then control the north of Italy |
| 1944 | Guderian, Heinz | |
| 21st July Directs the Eastern front |
