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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Alfred Franke, Andreas Schroder, Annette Schultz, Arnold Eucken, August Batsch, Barbara Gobel, Brigitte Schuchardt, Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, Carsten Klee, Cornelia Sirch, Daniel Sengewald, Emil Huschke, Erich Kastner (camera designer), Ernst Christian Gottlieb Reinhold, Georg Erhard Hamberger, Gerhard Bauer, Hans Godo Frabel, Hans Kniep, Hans Prutz, Helmut Kampfe, Hugo Schmeisser, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Ingrid Auerswald, Johannes Gottfried Hallier, Johann Karl August Musaus, Jurgen Rost, Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Karl Wilhelm Gottling, Kristian Nicht, Lutz Rathenow, Otto Gunsche, Patrick Peters, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Philipp Roppnack, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Rene Eckardt, Robert Enke, Robert Froriep, Roland Jahn, Rolf Beilschmidt, Rudolph Zacharias Becker, Sabine Gunther, Sahra Wagenknecht, Siegfried Reiprich, Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, Tadeus Reichstein, Tobias Kurbjuweit, Ulrike Urbansky, Volker Blumentritt, Walter Eucken. Excerpt: Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (29 June 1911 - 1 December 2004), later Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, was prince consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and father of six children, including the current monarch Queen Beatrix. Although his private life was rather controversial, he was still generally regarded as a charming and popular figure by the majority of the Dutch for his performance as a combat pilot and his activities as a liaison officer and personal aide to the Queen during World War II, his work during post-war reconstruction, and for assisting specific individuals. During World War II the German-born prince was part of the London-based Allied war planning councils and an active RAF wing commander flying both fighter and bomber planes into combat. He was a Dutch general and supreme commander of the Dutch Armed forces, involved in negotiating the terms of surrender of the German army in the Netherlands. For proven bravery, leadership and loyalty during his wartime efforts he was awarded the rank of knight commander in the chivalric Military William Order, the oldest and highest honour in the Netherlands. After the War he was also made honorary Air Marshal of the RAF by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1969, Bernhard was awarded the Grand Cross, Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Bernhard helped found the World Wildlife Fund (later renamed World Wide Fund for Nature), becoming its first president in 1961, and in 1970 establishing the WWF's "1001 Club: A Nature Trust," as a fundraiser. In 1954, he was a co-founder of the international Bilderberg Group, which has met annually since then to discuss corporate globalization and other issues concerning Europe and North America. He was forced to step down from both groups after being involved in the Lockheed Bribery Scandal. Bernhard was born Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter of Biesterfeld in Jena, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empire the
