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Schwerer Gustav was initially intended to be used for breaching the French Maginot Line of fortifications, but was not finished in time and ( as a sign of the times ) the Maginot Line was circumvented by rapid mechanized forces instead of breached in a head-on assault.
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In the 1930s, Krupp developed two 800 mm railway guns, the Schwerer Gustav and the Dora.
Projectile and cartridge case for the massive World War II German 80cm Schwerer Gustav railway gun
The apex of siege artillery was reached with the German Schwerer Gustav gun, a huge 800-mm caliber railway gun, built during early World War II.
Some of the largest guns in military history were tested here: Schwerer Gustav and Mörser Karl.
A model of the German railway gun Schwerer Gustav | Dora which inspired the Railgun map.
It was, in fact, a Gamma-Gerät howitzer, assembled at Meppen after World War I from parts scavenged by Krupp, and it went on to see action in World War II, along with the modern and even larger Mörser Karl and Schwerer Gustav.
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Although the V-1 and V-2 weapons were common during 1944 and 1945 in Europe, the Schwerer Gustav was the only other widely used superweapon.
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The Second World War saw the final use of the railway gun, with the massive Schwerer Gustav gun, the largest artillery piece to be used in combat, deployed by Germany.
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Germany was then reinforced by several artillery regiments, one of which included the railway gun Schwerer Gustav.
* Landkreuzer P. 1500 " Monster "-a proposed super-heavy self propelled gun, weighing 1500 metric tons and armed with the 800mm Schwerer Gustav / Dora gun
* Schwerer Gustav ( Heavy Gustav )-an 800mm railway gun
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Some elements of the Schwerer Löwe design were used in the Tiger II.
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These were superseded in production by the 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Schwerer Wehrmachtsschlepper ( Panzerwerfer auf SWS ) which had improved cross-country mobility and greater ammunition storage than the " Maultier ".
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However German armored reconnaissance vehicles appeared from the forest road, probably part of Aufklärungs-Abteilung 20, and soon the Polish units came under heavy machine gun fire, probably from Leichter Panzerspähwagen equipped with MG 34, or Schwerer Panzerspähwagen equipped also with a 20 mm gun.
Image: SdKfz231 ( 8-Rad )- 1. jpg | German Schwerer Panzerspähwagen
* Schwerer Kreuzer — heavy cruiser.
The vehicles are a Schwerer Panzerspähwagen # Sd. Kfz.
* Schwerer Löwe – crew of five, 1000-hp engine, weight of 90 tons, 120mm frontal armor, center-mounted turret, 105 mm L / 70 high velocity gun and a coaxial machine gun, top speed 23 km / h.
When shown the designs, Adolf Hitler ordered the Leichter Löwe dropped and the Schwerer Löwe re-designed with a 150mm main gun, 140mm frontal armor, and a top speed of 30 km / h.
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For a while his work was influenced deeply by the French impressionists, and by the patterned, mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian art.
There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.
The first instrumental analysis was flame emissive spectrometry developed by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff who discovered rubidium ( Rb ) and caesium ( Cs ) in 1860.
Atomic absorption spectrometry was first used as an analytical technique, and the underlying principles were established in the second half of the 19th century by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, both professors at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
In 1858, the last attempt was made by Johann Gustav Stickel, Jena University: " Das Etruskische (...) als Semitische Sprache erwiesen ".
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (; April 8, 1859, Proßnitz, Moravia, Austrian Empire – April 26, 1938, Freiburg, Germany ) was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology.
The most common type of glycolysis is the Embden-Meyerhof pathway ( EMP pathway ), which was first discovered by Gustav Embden, Otto Meyerhof.
Gustav Radbruch ( 21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949 ) was a German legal scholar and politician.
In 1921-22 and throughout 1923, he was minister of justice in the cabinets of Joseph Wirth and Gustav Stresemann.
Rau was a member of the All-German People ’ s Party ( GVP ), which was founded by Gustav Heinemann.
In 1958, Rau and his political mentor, Gustav Heinemann, joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), where he was active in the Wuppertal chapter.
Within his lifetime, his idiom left an imprint on several composers within his personal circle, who strongly admired his music, such as Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Robert Fuchs, and Julius Röntgen, as well as on Gustav Jenner, who was Brahms's only formal composition pupil.
Adams once claimed that originality wasn't an urgent concern for him the way it was necessary for the minimalists, and compared his position to that of Gustav Mahler, J. S. Bach, and Johannes Brahms, who " were standing at the end of an era and were embracing all of the evolutions that occurred over the previous thirty to fifty years.
While independence was being reclaimed, the election of King Gustav of the Vasa at Strängnäs on June 6, 1523, has been seen as a formal declaration of independence, and as the de facto end of a union that had lost all long-term support in Sweden.
The day Gustav Vasa was hailed as King ( he was not crowned until 1528 though ) would become, in 1983, the National Day of Sweden.
In the 20th century the company was headed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ( 1870 – 1950 ), who assumed the surname of Krupp when he married the Krupp heiress, Bertha Krupp.
After Germany's defeat, Gustav was senile and incapable of standing trial, and the Nuremberg Military Tribunal convicted Alfried as a war criminal in the Krupp Trial for " plunder " and for his company's use of slave labor.
By imperial proclamation at the wedding, Gustav was given the additional surname " Krupp ," which was to be inherited by primogeniture along with the company.
In 1913 Germany jailed a number of military officers for selling secrets to Krupp, in what was known as the “ Kornwalzer scandal .” Gustav was not himself penalized and fired only a single director, Otto Eccius.
Gustav and especially Bertha were initially skeptical of Hitler, who was not of their class.
Gustav was alarmed at Hitler's aggressive foreign policy after the Munich Agreement, but by then he was fast succumbing to senility and was effectively displaced by his son Alfried.
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