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Born June 20, 1647 • Dresden • Germany
Died September 12, 1691 (aged 44) • Tübingen • Germany
House / Dynasty Wettin dynasty
Role In War of the Grand Alliance
Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust.
Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust
prime minister of Austria
Maximilian II Emanuel, engraving by Karl Gustav Amling, 1682
Maximilian II Emanuel
elector of Bavaria
Heinrich, Reichsgraf von Brühl
Heinrich, count von Brühl
prime minister of Saxony
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Leopold I
Leopold I
Holy Roman emperor
Painting by Antoine Pesne showing King Frederick I seated on an ornate silver throne, wearing elaborate royal robes and holding a scepter, with a crown on a table beside him.
Frederick I
king of Prussia
Anthonie Heinsius, engraving by L.A. Claesens, after a portrait by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Anthonie Heinsius
Dutch statesman
Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a collared shirt and tie, facing forward with a serious expression, circa 1933.
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Painting by Jakob Seisenegger showing Emperor Charles V in ornate Renaissance attire standing beside a large hunting dog, with a green curtain in the background.
Charles V
Holy Roman emperor
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
Portrait of Catherine the Great of Russia by Richard Brompton, showing her in regal attire with a jeweled crown and fur-trimmed robe, set in an ornate oval frame.
Catherine the Great
empress of Russia
Medieval manuscript miniature showing Frederick I as a crowned crusader holding an orb and scepter, with Henry of Schaftlarn kneeling and presenting a book to him.
Frederick I
Holy Roman emperor
Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann
chancellor of Germany
Frederick William
Frederick William
elector of Brandenburg
Maximilian I
Maximilian I
Holy Roman emperor
Friedrich von Holstein
Friedrich von Holstein
German statesman
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
American political scientist and diplomat
Konrad Adenauer, 1966
Konrad Adenauer
chancellor of West Germany