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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: 23. Chapters: Johann Friedrich Endersch, Heinrich von Plauen, Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, Kurt Schaffenberger, Felix Loch, David Moller, Erika Zuchold, Hans Rinn, Hermann von Salza, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Andre Florschutz, Jorg Hoffmann, Margit Schumann, Heinz Frank, Johannes Plavius, Martin Bieber, Wolfgang Graf von Blucher, Heinrich von Morungen, Steffen Skel, August von Stockhausen, Heinrich Voigtsberger, Horst Hornlein, Thomas Florschutz, Steffen Woller, Hans-Joachim Heyer, Erich Schopper, Dietmar Schauerhammer, Rudolf Scheffel, Werner Machold, Rudolf Neubert, Gerhard Franz, Horst Patuschka, Walter Keiner, Helmut Fickel, Hugo Riemann, Heinrich Reuss von Plauen, Otto Bittorf, Wolfgang Scheidel, Horst Baldauf, Regina Miriam Bloch, Johann Kaspar Friedrich Manso, Sophie von Kuhn, Heinrich Ernst, Wilhelm Gansler, Alexander Rodiger, Enrico Kuhn, Andi Langenhan, Gero, Christoph Heyder, Frank Rommel, Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich, Marion Thees, Christian Gottlieb Reichard, Angela Knosel, Nicole Herschmann, Steffi Jacob, Julian Musiol, Matthias Hopfner, Axel Kuhn, Theodgar of Vestervig, Hartmann von Heldrungen, Patricia Polifka, Claudia Schramm. Excerpt: Heinrich von Plauen (the Elder) (ca. 1370-1429) was the 27th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from November 1410 to October 1413. He is famous for saving Castle Marienburg after the Order's defeat in the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) in 1410. He wanted to continue war with Poland and for that reason was removed from the office by Michael Kuchmeister von Sternberg. Because all male members of his family were baptized as Heinrich (Henry), he is sometimes known as Heinrich von Plauen the Elder to differentiate from his relative, Heinrich von Plauen the Younger (died ca. 1441). Von Plauen was born in Vogtland, between Thuringia and Saxony. Von Plauen arrived i..