Gneisenau

Gneisenau is part of the name of the following people:

• August Wilhelm Neidhardt (* 1734 in Reick ; † 1802), artillery lieutenant and builder from, since 1783 called Neidhardt von Gneisenau

• August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (* 1760 in Schildau ; † 1831), Prussian field marshal and army reformer, son of August Wilhelm

• Bruno Neidhardt von Gneisenau (* 1811 in Kauffung ; † 1889), Prussian infantry general, son of August

Gneisenau is the name of the ships named after the Field Marshal General:

• SMS Gneisenau (1879) , a three-mast cruiser frigate as a cadet training ship for the Imperial Navy
• SMS Gneisenau (1906) , a large cruiser (armored cruiser) of the 1st Scharnhorst class of the Imperial Navy
• Gneisenau (ship, 1914) , outpost boat of the Imperial Navy built as a fishing steamer
• Gneisenau (ship, 1935) , passenger ship of the North German Lloyd
• Gneisenau (ship, 1936) , Scharnhorst-class battleship of the Kriegsmarine
• Gneisenau (F 212) , school frigate of the Hunt class of the German Navy

Gneisenau is the name of the following localities:

• Gneisenau (Uckerland) , locality of the municipality of Uckerland , district of Uckermark, Brandenburg, Germany
• Gneisenau , Gerdauen district, East Prussia, since 1945 a village within the Cholmogorje (Vishnyovoye) settlement in Pravdinsk district, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
• Gneisenau , Lötzen district, East Prussia, from 1945: Gnieździenko, lost place in the Giżycki powiat, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

See also:

• Gneisenaustadt Schildau
• Gneisenau Castle
• Gneisenau colliery

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.