2-702-576 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Gerhard Johann David Scharnhorst', (1933). Portrait of General Gerhard Johann David Waitz von Scharnhorst (1755-1813), a Hanoverian-born general in Prussian service from 1801. As the first Chief of the Prussian General Staff, he was noted for his military theories, his reforms of the Prussian army, and his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]