Briest
Briest
is the name of places:
- District of the town of Lübenheen in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Part of the municipality of Passow in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg, see: Briest (Passow)
- District of the town of Tangerhütte in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt, see Briest (Tangerhütte)
- District of the municipality Wust-Fischbeck in the district of Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt, see: Briest (Wust-Fischbeck)
- District of the city of Havelsee in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg, see: Briest (Havelsee)
- Municipality of Břest , Okres Kroměříž, Czech Republic
is the name of people:
- Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, born von Briest (1773–1831), German writer
- Anne-Sophie Briest (* 1974), German actress
- Eckard Briest (1909–1992), German ambassador
- Effi Briest , title character in Theodor Fontane's novel of the same name
- Jakob Friedrich von Briest (district administrator) (1631–1703), Havelland district administrator and alleged liberator of Rathenow in the battle of Fehrbellin; Ancestor of Effi Briest in Fontane's novel
- Jakob Friedrich von Briest (1695–1768), Prussian major general and commander
designated:
- the noble family of Briest, see Briest (noble family)
- a line of the German noble family Bismarck, see Bismarck (noble family) #Zweig Briest
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