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Also Known As John the Steadfast • Johann der Beständige
Born June 30, 1468 • Meissen • Germany
Died August 16, 1532 (aged 64) • Germany
House / Dynasty Wettin dynasty
Role In Schmalkaldic League
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Augustus
elector of Saxony
John Frederick the Magnanimous, portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder; in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
John Frederick
elector of Saxony
Philip
Philip
landgrave of Hesse
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Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
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Georg Spalatin
Bavarian humanist
Franz von Sickingen
Franz von Sickingen
German knight
Nikolaus von Amsdorf, lithograph, 1820, after a 16th-century engraving.
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian
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Fritz Fischer
German historian
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Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
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August Thyssen
German industrialist
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Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
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Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a collared shirt and tie, facing forward with a serious expression, circa 1933.
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
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
Henry IV
Henry IV
Holy Roman emperor
“Queen of Europe”
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany
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Louis IV
Holy Roman emperor