Blucher
Blücher stands for:
- Blücher (shoe) , a classic men's shoe model
- Blücher AG , a former German company, see Aplerbecker Hütte
- Blücher Order , never awarded war order of the GDR
- Blücher (locomotive) , an early (1814) locomotive built by George Stephenson , named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Blücher (film) , Norwegian film from 1988
- Fürst Blücher (apple) , an apple variety bred in Mecklenburg around 1880 from seeds of Yellow Richard
Blücher is the family name of the following people:
the Mecklenburg noble family von Blücher, see Blücher (noble family)
- Ulrich von Blücher (around 1214–1284), Bishop of Ratzeburg
- Hermann von Blücher († 1309), Bishop of Ratzeburg
- Wipert von Blücher († 1376), Bishop of Ratzeburg
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), Prussian Field Marshal General
- Conrad Daniel von Blücher-Altona (1764–1845), Upper President of Altona
- Franz Blücher von Wahlstatt (1778–1829), Prussian major general
- Ernst von Blücher (1793–1863), German administrative lawyer, officer and landowner
- Gebhard Blücher von Wahlstatt (1799–1875), Prussian landowner and hereditary member of the Prussian mansion
- Gebhard Leberecht Blücher von Wahlstatt (1836–1916), Prussian nobleman and member of the Prussian manor house
- Helmuth von Blücher (1805–1862), German chemist and pharmacist
- Ulrich von Blücher (General, 1816) (1816–1903), Prussian major general
- Gebhard von Blücher (1865–1931), 4th Prince of Wahlstatt
- Wipert von Blücher (1883–1963), German diplomat
- Joachim von Blücher (1888–1980), German politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
- Johann-Albrecht von Blücher (1892–1972), German major general in the Wehrmacht
- Borusso von Blücher (* 1944), German diplomat
as well as from:
- Wassili Konstantinowitsch Blücher (1889–1938), Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Franz Blücher (1896–1959), German Federal Minister (FDP, FVP, DP)
- Heinrich Blücher (1899–1970), German philosopher who lived in the USA
Several ships were named Blücher after the Prussian General Field Marshal :
- Prince Blücher (ship, 1819)
- SMS Blücher (1877) , a torpedo training ship
- Blücher (Schiff, 1902) , a passenger steamer
- SMS Blücher (1908) , a large cruiser
- Blücher (ship, 1913) , a fish steamer and auxiliary ship of the Imperial Navy
- Blücher (ship, 1937) , a heavy cruiser
Blücher is or was the name of the following places:
- Blücher (possession) , part of the municipality possession in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Expansion of Blücher, settlement in south-eastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, see Woldegk
- former name of the community Göhren-Lebbin
The following mines bear the name Blücher :
- Blücherschächte , is the former name of the coal mine Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Jankowice in Rybnik in Poland
- Blücher mine , a former non-ferrous metal ore mine in the Herkenrath residential area of Bergisch Gladbach
- Blücher (Gleißen) mine , former alum ore mine in Gleißen, today's Glisno (Lubniewice) in Poland
- Blücher I colliery , initially merged into the Essen-Arenberg colliery in 1864 and then into the Nordstern colliery in 1866
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