This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.

* Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends

* February 12 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden ( b. 1710 )

** Upon his death, Frederick I of Sweden is succeeded as king by Adolf Frederick.

* May 14 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden ( d. 1771 )

The conquerors – King Frederick II, Duke Adolf, and Duke John II the Elder – divided Dithmarschen into two parts: the south became a part of Holstein in personal union with Denmark while the north came into the possession of the other Duke of Holstein.

He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick II of Prussia.

Reportedly he was not very close to his mother ; the Queen preferred her youngest children, Sophie Albertine and Frederick Adolf.

The rule of the Riksdag was not to prevail again until after World War I, when universal and equal suffrage was also instated ( although under Adolf Frederick a minor number of women have had the vote ).

On his mother's side, Adolf Frederick descended from king Gustav I of Sweden and from Christina Magdalena, a sister of Charles X of Sweden.

Adolf Frederick was also a 13th-generation descendant of Erik V of Denmark ; a 13th-generation descendant of Sophia of Denmark and Valdemar I of Sweden ; and an 11th-generation descendant of Euphemia of Sweden, Duchess of Mecklenburg and her husband the duke Albrecht.

From 1727 to 1750 prince Adolf Frederick was prince-bishop of Lübeck ( which meant the rulership of a fief around and including Eutin ), and administrator of Holstein-Kiel during the minority of his nephew, Duke Charles Peter Ulrich, afterwards Peter III of Russia.

During his twenty-year reign Adolf Frederick was little more than a figurehead, the real power being lodged in the hands of the Parliament of Sweden, often distracted by party strife.

# Frederick Adolf ( 1750 – 1803 )

simple: Adolf Frederick of Sweden

A little later Adolf intervened in war-torn Thuringia, where fighting had erupted between Landgrave Albert the Degenerate and his sons Frederick and Dietrich IV of Lusatia.

The report, compiled by Frederick L. Coolidge and Daniel L. Segal ( with the assistance of a South Korean psychiatrist considered an expert on Kim Jong-il's behavior ), concluded that the " big six " group of personality disorders shared by dictators Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Saddam Hussein ( sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal ) were also shared by Kim Jong-il — coinciding primarily with the profile of Saddam Hussein.

Up until Adolf Frederick, the motto for every regent had been in Latin and Swedish ( or, as in the case of Gustav II Adolf, in German ).

Adolf, the third son of Duke and King Frederick I and the second youngest half-brother of King Christian III, founded the dynastic branch called House of Holstein-Gottorp, which is a cadet branch of the then royal Danish House of Oldenburg.

Steelworks at Königshütte, 1872-1875 (" Das Eisenwalzwerk " by Adolph Menzel | Adolf von Menzel )

Adolf ( or Adolph ) ( c. 1255 – 2 July 1298 ) was the King of Germany from 1292 until 1298.

* 1398-1448 Adolph IV, son of Adolf III, also Count of Cleves 1394-1417, Duke of Cleves 1417-1448

He was a concertmaster in Aberdeen, Scotland, then a professor of music in Helsinki, and finally became a student once again, in St Petersburg, Leipzig ( with Adolph Brodsky ), Berlin ( with Adolf Becker ), and Liège ( with César Thomson ).

Hamilton remained with the Association after Adolf Hitler's rise to power and described himself as " an admirer of the great Adolph Hitler ", dismissing Mein Kampf as a youthful excess.

Adolf, also spelled Adolph and sometimes Latinised to Adolphus, is a given name used in German-speaking countries, in Scandinavia, in the Netherlands and Flanders and to a lesser extent in various Central European countries.

Adolph Abramovich Joffe (, alternative transliterations Adolf Ioffe or, rarely, Yoffe ) ( October 10, 1883, Simferopol – November 16, 1927, Moscow ) was a Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaite descent.

Adele is a musical in three acts with music by Jean Briquet and Adolph Philipp, original French book and lyrics by Paul Hervé, and English adaptation by Adolf Philipp and Edward A. Paulton.

Al Shean ( 12 May 1868-12 August 1949 ) was the stage name for comedian Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg, although other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg.

: This article concerns the Nazi official Adolf Wagner ; for the German economist, see Adolph Wagner.

File: Christian Adolf Overbeck2. jpg | Christian Adolph Overbeck

* Adolph Joffe ( Adolf Joffe ), Russian Marxist revolutionary and Soviet politician

In London, Miliband abandoned the name Adolph due to its connection with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and instead began calling himself Ralph.

The Schutzstaffel (, translated to Protection Squadron or defence corps, abbreviated SS — or Runic " ᛋᛋ " with stylized " Armanen " sig runes ) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ).

The German Labour Front (, DAF ) was the National Socialist trade union organization which replaced the various trade unions of the Weimar Republic after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

* Adolf Pichler Hut (, duration: ca.

The Breitspurbahn (, translation: broad-gauge railway ) was a planned broad-gauge railway, a personal pet project of Adolf Hitler during the Third Reich of Germany, supposed to run on 3 metre gauge track with double-deck coaches between major cities of Grossdeutschland, Hitler's expanded Germany.

Adolf VIII of Holstein (, ) ( 1401 – 4 December 1459 ), Duke of Southern Jutland ( Danish, Sønderjylland ), i. e. Slesvig, and Count of Holstein, was the mightiest vassal of the Danish realm.

Adolf Avraham Berman (, born 17 October 1906, died 3 February 1978 ) was a Polish-Israeli activist and politician.

The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (, shortened to Berufsbeamtengesetz ), also known as Civil Service Law, Civil Service Restoration Act, and Law to Re-establish the Civil Service, was a law passed by the National Socialist regime on April 7, 1933, two months after Adolf Hitler attained power.

In World War II the Third Reich invaded the Alpine countries, with the exception of Switzerland and Lichtenstein ; Adolf Hitler kept a base of operation in the Bavarian Alps throughout the war.

Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen explains that it was Bishop Theoderich who carried the flag, planted outside his tent ; thus as an already well-known symbol of the Knights Hospitaller in Livonia, the enemy thought this was the King's symbol and mistakenly stormed Bishop Theoderich tent.

* 1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy ; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as " a silly little monkey ".

; 2nd ed., 1806 ), which was translated into French and served as a model for Wilhelm Adolf Becker's Gallus and Charicles.

Production of fighters was not given priority until 1944 ; Adolf Galland commented that this should have occurred at least a year earlier.

The Abyssinian crisis showed how the League could be influenced by the self-interest of its members ; one of the reasons why the sanctions were not very harsh was that both Britain and France feared the prospect of driving Mussolini and German dictator Adolf Hitler into an alliance.

While claims of racial bias in the writings of Rudolf Steiner and Alice Bailey were made, Bailey was firmly opposed to the Axis powers ; she believed that Adolf Hitler was possessed by the Dark Forces, and Steiner emphasized racial equality as a principle central to anthroposophical thought and humanity's progress.

Such is the case in many African states ; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example.

The writer Theodor Fontane, painter Adolf von Menzel, and Dadaist Kurt Schwitters were all guests ; Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacus Communist movement leader read a lot here and even made some key political speeches from the pavement terrace, while author Erich Kästner wrote part of his 1929 bestseller for children, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ), on the same terrace and made the café the setting for an important scene in the book.

Historians regard him as the darkest figure within the Nazi elite ; Adolf Hitler christened him " the man with the iron heart ".

For example, in the court case of City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, Adolf Lyons was stopped by police officers because of a faulty taillight ; police officers choked him until he was unconscious.

This would not be forgotten or forgiven ; the first battle which broke out at Uwereka in September 1905 under the Governorship of Count Gustav Adolf von Götzen turned instantly into an all-out war with indiscriminate murders and massacres perpetrated by all sides against farmers, settlers, missionaries, planters, villages, indigenous people and peasants.

At the time, Adolf Hitler was not particularly impressed by the V-2 ; he pointed out that it was merely an artillery shell with a longer range and much higher cost.

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** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

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