After Graf Spees captain Hans Langsdorff was told that his stay could not be extended beyond 72 hours, he scuttled his damaged ship rather than face the overwhelmingly superior force that the British had led him to believe was awaiting his departure.

Robertson's first agents were not a success ; Giraffe ( George Graf ) was never really used and Gander ( Kurt Goose ; MI5 had a thing for amusingly relevant code names ) had been sent to Britain with a radio that could only transmit, not receive.

For some Chicagoans, however, the appearance of the Graf Zeppelin over their fair city was not a welcome sight, as the airship had become a prominent reminder of the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler to power earlier that same year.

White Christmas, Strategic Air Command, To Catch a Thief and The Battle of the River Plate ( a. k. a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee ) had very limited ( two or three ) prints struck in the 8-perf VistaVision format in which they were shot.

In December 1741, therefore, the Prussian general field marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin had crossed the border and captured Olmutz.

She had an older brother, Arthur Franz Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau.

While his uncle, Nikolaus Graf von Üxküll-Gyllenband, had approached him before to join the resistance movement against the Hitler regime, it was only after the Polish campaign that Stauffenberg began to consider it.

Claus had named his eldest son Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg after his brother.

* Alfred Claus Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( Tübingen, 8 November 1937 — Berlin, 28 October 1987 ), married at Wilflingen on 24 April 1962 to his distant cousin Marie Sophie Schenk Freiin von Stauffenberg ( b. Berlin, 23 September 1937 ), and had three sons:

** Berthold Franz Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( b. Riedlingen, 26 May 1963 ), married to María Jesus Alejandra Carabias ( b. 17 July 1961 ), and had one son:

The names of the original Lancaster County townships reflect the diverse array of settlers in the new county: two had Welsh names ( Caernarvon and Lampeter ), three had Native American names ( Cocalico, Conestoga and Peshtank or Paxton ), six were English ( Warwick, Lancaster, Martic, Sadsbury, Salisbury and Hempfield ); four were Irish ( Donegal, Drumore, Derry, and Leacock ), Manheim was German, Lebanon came from the Bible, and Earl the anglicization of the German surname of Graf or Groff.

In Graf v. Hope Building Corp., 254 NY 1 ( 1930 ), the New York Court of Appeals observed that in such a case, there was no forfeiture, only the operation of a clause fair on its face, to which the mortgagor had freely assented.

In February 2005, the Phoenix Mercury announced that she had been signed as an assistant coach under fellow Australian and Mercury head coach Carrie Graf.

Graf then defeated Sabatini 6 – 3, 6 – 3 in the gold medal match at the Olympic Games in Seoul and achieved what the media had dubbed the " Golden Slam ".

Navratilova then defeated Graf 7 – 6, 6 – 7, 6 – 4 in a US Open semifinal, the first time she had beaten Graf in four years.

Graf then had straight-sets wins against Sánchez Vicario in the Wimbledon final and Monica Seles in the US Open final.

After several months injury lay off, Graf returned to play in the German Open in Berlin in front of a home crowd and had the worst defeat of her career in the quarter final, when Amanda Coetzer beat her in just 56 minutes 6 – 0, 6 – 1.

Graf stated after the match she was extremely nervous heading into match primarily because of how strongly Seles had started in their prior match at the 1998 Corel WTA Championships.

With the aid of the Graf von Götzen ( named after Count Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen, the former governor of German East Africa ), the Germans had complete control of the lake in the early stages of the war.

By 1929, airship technology had advanced to the point that the first round-the-world flight was completed by the Graf Zeppelin in September and in October, the same aircraft inaugurated the first commercial transatlantic service.

But due to inexperienced cavalrymen and faulty reconnaissance, he was unaware of 73, 000 allied troops under Wittgenstein and Graf ( Count ) von Blücher concentrating on his right flank to the south.

Graf ran well to Kolbe's right, but was best known for his hardline approach to illegal immigration.

Roon, center, with Otto von Bismarck | Bismarck ( left ) and Helmuth Graf von Moltke | Moltke ( right ).

The image shows Hans Scholl ( left ), Sophie Scholl ( center ), and Christoph Probst ( right )( Willi Graf and Alex Schmorell are missing on this picture ), Munich, Germany, 1942.

Graf Gerhard IV ( 1276 – 1308 ) founded in 1289 a collegiate at the foot of Castle Hill.

Their heyday was during the 1930s when the airships LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg operated regular transatlantic flights from Germany to North America and Brazil.

( Twelve years later, Graf defeated Austin 6 – 0, 6 – 0 during a second round match at the Evert Cup in Indian Wells, California, which was their second and last match against each other.

Graf did not lose a set during the tournament and lost a total of only 29 games.

Graf lost twice to Gabriela Sabatini during the spring, once on hardcourts in Boca Raton, Florida, and once on clay at Amelia Island, Florida.

In May 1941 served as the escort to HMS Ark Royal during the sinking of the battleship Bismarck, and on 31 December 1942, Sheffield and Jamaica jointly attacked and drove off the pocket battleship Lützow ( sister ship to the Graf Spee ), and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, at the Battle of the Barents Sea, when the Germans attempted to intercept a large convoy to Murmansk.

Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff ( 20 March 1894 – 19 December 1939 ) was a German naval officer, most famous for his command of the Panzerschiff ( pocket battleship ) Admiral Graf Spee during the Battle of the River Plate.

Alternative names for the " Count " rank in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as Graf in Germany and Hakushaku during the Japanese Imperial era.

Admiral Graf Spee fled to Montevideo harbour to perform repairs on damage sustained during the battle.

He is the only male player and was the first player, male or female, to have won the Grand Slam during the open era ( in 1988 Steffi Graf also achieved this feat ).

* April 30 – during a changeover at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany, Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by a deranged fan of rival Steffi Graf.

The German ambassador in Washington, Graf Heinrich von Bernstorff, later admitted how relieved he felt that Bryce was not his competitor for American sympathies during the World War period, when Bernstorff managed to secure the neutrality of the USA at least until 1917.

The German zeppelins were of much interest during this period, and in 1930 the Department issued special stamps to be used on the Pan-American flight of Graf Zeppelin.

I must say that during the war I never disobeyed an order, but when General Seidemann ordered Graf and me to fly to the British sector and surrender to avoid the Soviets, with the rest of the wing to surrender to the Soviets.

On 29 March 2004 the society " Felix Graf von Luckner Gesellschaft e. V ." was founded in Halle, with the objective of commemorating Luckner's life and work, especially his role in safeguarding the city of Halle during April 1945.

Berger appeared at the Metropolitan Opera during the 1949 – 50 and 1950 – 51 seasons, in Der Rosenkavalier ( opposite Eleanor Steber and Risë Stevens, conducted by Fritz Reiner and directed by Herbert Graf ), Rigoletto ( with Warren, then Enzo Mascherini ), Die Zauberflöte, and Il barbiere di Siviglia ( with Giuseppe Valdengo ).

Matthias Gallas, Graf von Campo und Herzog von Lucera ( Count of Campo, Duke of Lucera ) ( Matteo Gallasso ; Trento 1584 – Vienna 1647 ), was an Austrian soldier, who first saw service in Flanders, then in Savoy with the Spaniards, and subsequently joined the forces of the Catholic League as captain during the Thirty Years ' War.

Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld ( c. 1580 – 29 November 1626 ), was a German military commander during the early years of the Thirty Years ' War.

Johann David Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg ( 26 September 1759 – 4 October 1830 ) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall instrumental in the switching of the Kingdom of Prussia from a French alliance to a Russian alliance during the War of the Sixth Coalition.

In his diary, Harry Graf Kessler recorded that during a later visit to Berlin, Painlevé discussed pacifist international politics with Einstein, but there is no reference to discussions concerning the significance of the Schwarzschild radius.

It was visited by the Graf Zeppelin airship in July 1931 during a landmark aerial survey.

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke ( 11 March 1907 – 23 January 1945 ) was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II and subsequently became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group, whose members opposed the government of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

The Battle of Hochkirch was a battle fought on October 14, 1758 during the Seven Years ' War between a Prussian army of 30, 000-36, 000 commanded by Frederick the Great and an Austrian army of 80, 000 commanded by Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun.

Graf also assumes a much more advisory role with this team, appearing only once during each investigation instead of being constantly on call.

The Graf Zeppelin, during its polar flight of July 1931, determined there were at least two islands ( a full month after Ushakov and Urvantsev ).