Preußische Hauptkadettenanstalt

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The Preußische Hauptkadettenanstalt (transl. Royal Prussian Main Cadet Institute) in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin, was the main military academy training officer corps of the Prussian Army from 1882 to 1920. From 1933 till 1945, the building complex housed the SS Division Leibstandarte.^[1]

Former students

• Hans Kahle World War I veteran turned Communist Party of Germany member, NKVD spymaster, senior commander in Spanish Republican Army's International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and politician in the German Democratic Republic.
• Paul Tafel (1872-1953), early member of the German Workers' Party,^[2] mentor of its founder Anton Drexler.
• Manfred von Richthofen (1896-1918), legendary World War I flying ace nicknamed "The Red Baron".
• Yinchang, Chinese military official, ambassador to Germany, and educational reformer in the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China.

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