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BUCKEBURG - Bückeburg / GERMANY

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Koncerti Lene Kovačević širom Nemačke:

Simfonijski orkestar Josef & Friends feat. Lena Kovačević

Lena Kovaćević nastupiće 11. marta 2023. u čuvenom dvorcu Fehelde (Vechelde) u Nemačkoj, zajedno sa simfonijskim orkestrom Josef & Friends.

Orkestar je osnovao i predvodi sjajni Jozef Žiga, violinista iz Srbije koji živi i radi 30 godina u Nemačkoj kao koncertmajstor u državnoj operskoj kuci u Braunšvajgu. Ovaj orkestar je poznat po predivnim, originalnim aranžmanima iz sveta klasične, pop i džez muzike.

Lena Kovačević je umetnica koja je već više  puta nastupala na koncertima u Nemačkoj sa  Josef & Friends orkestrom. Nakon koncerta u martu očekuju ih nastupi u čuvenom Scharoun Theater Wolfsburg, kao i dvorcu Bikeburg (Bückeburg). Na repertoaru su hitovi filmske muzike, pesme Lare Fabian, pesme na francuskom, italijanskom, engleskom i srpskom jeziku kao i Lenine pesme poput Ti si moj bol i Cafe koje su posebno aranžirane od strane ovog sjajnog simfonijskog orkestra.

Za Leninim nastupima vlada veliko interesovanje publike u zemlji i regionu. Lena je nedavno održala koncert u Narodnom pozorištu u Nišu koji je bio nedeljama unapred rasprodat.

Fotografije: Irina Duplevskaja i privatna arhiva

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Bückeburg Castle, Lower Saxony. Germany (by Rafael Wagner)

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The Stadtkirche, Buckeburg

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09-24 Langestrasse, Buckeburg, Germany, c1930s. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) #buckeburg http://dlvr.it/Pq4DwJ

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Symphony In D Minor, W. I/3 : I. Allegro

By Composer Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach

Performed By Conductor Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy

“Symphony” By Artist Valerie Vescovi

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German EC-135TI flies at Buckeburg. 82+63. by Alfred Fartknocker

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Johann Ewald - one of the American Revolution’s Best Light Infantry Commanders

For Johann Ewald, the defeat of the British army under General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown represented the culmination to seven years of government folly. He agreed with the famous military theorist, Baron Carl von Clauswitz, that war was an extension of politics, and that any government “in which there are no soldiers among the ministers” of state, was doomed to calamity in war. Such was the fate of the “finest and most valiant army” under the command of such a splendid officer as Lord Cornwallis. The disaster resulted from the “absurd rules established . . . in which no plan was followed” against a people “who could have been stamped to the ground in the first year” of the conflict. Johann later mused how “the fate of entire kingdoms often depends upon a few blockheads and irresolute men.”

Johann Ewald was born in Hesse-Cassel on March 30, 1744 to Georg Heinrich and Katharina Elisabeth Breithaupt Ewald. Georg was a bookkeeper, and hoped that his son might choose a non-military profession. Yet in 1760 at the age of sixteen, Johann enlisted in the Infantry Regiment Gilsa as a Cadet. His regiment was then under the command of Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, who led the German troops opposing the French during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). In 1761 Johann’s regiment was reassigned to the Count of Buckeburg, who, ironically, besieged Hesse-Cassel. On March 4, 1761, Johann was struck by a musket ball in his right leg above his knee. His quick return, however, did not go unnoticed, and Johann soon rose to the rank of Ensign.

After the end of the Seven Years’ War, Johann’s regiment was reduced, but he kept his commission. His fortunes improved in 1765 when he was transferred to the elite Guards at Cassel. In 1766, at the age of twenty-two, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant.

Unfortunately, Johann’s lack of noble birth forced him out of the Guards in 1769. Tragedy struck him a year later when he lost his left eye in a duel. After his recovery Johann studied military science at the Collegium Carolinum under Jakob von Mauvillon. Johann produced his first military treatise in 1774, afterwhich his military career progressed steadily.

Promoted to Captain in the Liebjager Corps in 1774, he drilled his troops in his theories on “partisan warfare.” Jager troops were elite “light infantry” armed with rifles, which fired much further and were more accurate than muskets. They carried swords, not bayonets; they were usually supported by Regular Light Infantry in case of an enemy bayonet attack. Jagers served as mounted and foot soldiers, and were thus well suited to Johann’s theories on the importance of improvisation, deception, ambush, and reconnaissance on the battlefield using detached groups of well-disciplined troops. Johann’s jagers were often used as the vanguard in an attack, or as the rear guard in a retreat.

When military recruitment for the American war lagged in England in 1776, Parliament decided to hire foreign auxiliaries. Johann’s company came under the command of Lieutenant General von Knyphausen, and in June 1776, he left Germany for New York. Upon their arrival in America, his company joined General Lord Cornwallis’s pursuit of Washington’s Continental Army through New Jersey. However, it soon seemed obvious to Johann that General William Howe, the British commander-in-chief, did not really want Cornwallis to capture Washington, or to press a general attack on the Americans. Instead of defeating Washington “the enemy was pulled in all directions and nowhere driven by force.” For Johann, this proved the linchpin to the eventual British defeat, for in trying to end “the war amicably, without shedding the blood of the King’s subjects in a needless way,” the British ensured that “all was lost, when it was desired to preserve all.” American Loyalist Joseph Galloway seethed, “I see, they [British] don’t want to finish the war!” Johann agreed that “every honest man must think” the same.

Hessian fortunes turned worse at the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776. The battle marked George Washington’s first victory as commander of the Continental Army, and eliminated the myth of German invincibility. Trenton was not fortified, nor did Colonel Rall, the commanding officer at the post, send out regular patrols. Johann ranked the lack of patrols as the primary reason for the Hessian defeat, commenting that if jagers had “patrolled diligently . . . on the morning when Washington crossed the Delaware, the enemy would have been discovered.” Johann saw significant action in the campaigns of 1777-1778. At the Battle of Brandywine he led the attack on Washington’s flank at Jeffrie’s Ford, and at the Battle of Monmouth his jagers helped to save the British baggage on the retreat to New York. Although not present at the Battle of Germantown, Johann, not surprisingly, heaped praise upon British Colonel Musgrave. The British officer borrowed from the tactics of partisan warfare by placing his regiment in Benjamin Chew’s country estate in order to defend the Germantown Road. The tactics pleased Johann, who commented that “this example of a single brave and intelligent man, through whom the entire English army was saved, shows what courage and decision in war can do.”

After the treaty with France in 1778, Johann’s jagers were transferred to the South. Once again under the command of General Lord Cornwallis, they took part in the siege of Charleston. Johann criticized British Major Moncrief’s plan to take the city, and held that while Moncrief succeeded at Charleston, he “would not capture a dovecot in a European war.” The subsequent British campaign through the Carolinas struck Johann as absurd. He questioned “Why not operate out of one point and use all our force there to be the master of at least one province?” All the British strategy accomplished was to make “people miserable by our presence. . . yet we still want to find friends in this country!” At the Battle of Yorktown, Johann’s jagers could do little against the incessant artillery fire of the American and French batteries. By this final battle Johann had developed a respect for American persistence. He asked “with what soldiers in the world could one do what was done with these men, who go about naked and in the greatest privation?” His conclusion was that “what an enthusiasm–which these poor fellows call “Liberty”–can do! Who would have thought . . . that out of this multitude of rabble would arise a people who could defy kings?”

After the war, Johann published his Abhandlung Ober den kleinen Kreig (Treatise on Partisan Warfare, 1785) which became an immediate military classic. Twenty-five years later, Carl von Clauswitz and Gerhard von Scharnhorst still recommended Johann’s book as an important treatise on the use of light infantry. However, Johann’s lack of noble birth continued to plague his career. Despite exemplary service, he had not been promoted from Captain after thirteen years. When he was passed over again in 1787, he reluctantly offered his service to Frederick VI of Denmark who accepted him immediately. Johann was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and placed in command of the Schleswig Jager Corps.

In 1788, Johann married Susanne Ungewitter of Cassel, with whom he had a son and four daughters, and in 1790, he was elevated to the Danish nobility. His career continued to progress steadily in the Danish Army, as he became a Colonel in 1795 and a Major General in 1802. During the French Revolution, Denmark maintained its neutrality until the British bombarded and captured Copenhagen in 1807. This forced Denmark into an alliance with Napoleon. In 1809, when Ferdinand von Schill revolted against French domination of Prussia, Johann’s jagers proved decisive in defeating the rebels on May 31, 1809. Johann was promoted to Lieutenant General that day, and was later appointed a commander in the Dutch Order of Union, and an Officer in the French Legion of Honor. Johann finally retired from active duty on May 1, 1813, and died on June 25, 1813 at the age of sixty-nine. He was revered in Denmark, and was celebrated for decades after his death as a national hero.

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Focke-Wulf Fw-51: The World’s First Helicopter Aviation is a fairly new endeavor. The Wright Brothers kicked off the start with a functioning plane at Kitty Hawk in…

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Schloss Buckeburg, Germany (by Burkhard Kaufhold) / http://picstreet.fr

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BUCKEBURG / Bückeburg - GERMANY

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After the inventor's death: police found a will for millions of AfD heirs

After the inventor’s death: police found a will for millions of AfD heirs

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Friday February 14, 2020

The AfD announces further details on the spectacular inheritance case, which should bring the party several million euros. The testator is therefore an inventor from Buckeburg. After his death, the police are said to have discovered the will. And according to the AfD, there is also another inheritance. In addition to the millions of…

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Schloss Buckeburg, Germany (by Burkhard Kaufhold)

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Inside the Golden Hall of the Residenzschloss, Buckeburg

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@fidelesir replied to your post: Is this about real people? It’s exceptional

Thank you so much!!! And, yes, it is - Wilhelm, the Count of Buckeburg was born in London in 1724, entered the royal bodyguard as a cadet, and travelled Berlin to gain military experience at the court of Frederick II of Prussia. He was an artillery commander in the Seven Years’ War, and then went to Portugal to reform the Portugese army! He is mostly remembered for his theory that the only morally justifiable war was a defensive war and then building a super-fortress on an island in his estates in Saxony as proof of this. He also started a chocolate factory, abolished corporal punishment, and appointed philosopher J.G. Herder as his court preacher. Unfortunately, the super-fortress and the 1,000 man standing army he maintained at all times in case someone was to invade the very small area of Lower Saxony he lived in were a very heavy financial burden on most of the people living there.

 As for Moses Mendelssohn, he was born in Dessau, Saxony in 1729 to a poor Torah scribe, and travelled to Berlin age 14 to follow his teacher, R. David Frankel and learn more about the world. With the help of the friends he made there (but without any formal university education) he taught himself German, French, English, Latin, Greek, and contemporary philosophy. He became very famous with the success of his book Phaedo, a reworking of the Platonic dialogue to engage with the cutting edge ideas of the 18th century written in down-to-earth, exciting language. By engaging with the ideas of a pagan philosopher, he hoped to illustrate that moral and metaphysical truths could be discovered by people of any religion and were accessible to all. However, he was publically challenged by a deacon to either publically disprove Christianity or to convert to it, and the resulting controversy left him chronically ill. He met with the Count while recovering at the spa at Pyrmont, and wrote about him afterwards:

“In his outward appearance, he was far from attractive: tall of stature, strong of build, he looked emaciated, severe and strange. On closer acquaintance, he revealed himself to be a man ful of gentleness and sympathy, the finest Greek soul in a rough Westphalian body. He loved hard and dangerous physical exercises, the sciences, great deeds. Death for the sake of freedom and justice, the future life, and Providence were the topics of his ordinary conversation. I never heard a man talk with more warmth about the truths of natural religion. Free from all prejudice that leads to discord and hatred of men, he was permeated to the degree of enthusiasm with the true benefical teachings of religion.

He had with him the countess...She was a lady of rare beauty and extraordinary gifts of soul. In matters of doctrine and belief she was of one mind with the count, on whose will and opinions she seemed to rely completely. In conversation, however, she was not of the same profoundly serious disposition, but rather of a sweet and soft youthfulness. Both of them appeared to have lost some of their natural vitality owing to the recent death of their only child. They had resigned themselves to God’s will, yet this blow of fate was too severe to be accepted so soon. There remained in their hearts an elegiac melancholy.

Though of different age, and, it seemed, opposite temperament, they loved each other with a tender and almost romantic amorousness that was perhaps too pronounced to make for happiness in marriage. The death of the countess a few years later so depressed the splendid man that he could find no further happiness in this life. Sunk in grief, he decreased in vitality day by day, and soon followed her.”

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Karoline Reuss zu Greiz:  The betrothal of Princess Caroline and Wilhelm Ernst, the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach since 1901, was announced on 10 December 1902.[2] At Buckeburg Castle (the home of her uncle), they married on 30 April 1903.[3] Caroline was reportedly very against the match; at the last second of the wedding, she attempted to draw back, only to be persuaded most forcibly by Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Viktoria to proceed with the marriage.    

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