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Meeting of the Reorganisation Commission in Königsberg, 9 July 1807, (1936). 'Sitzung Der Reorganisationskommission in Königsberg, 9 Juli 1807'. The commission for military reorganisation, part of the Prussian Reform Movement, took place at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). The two men in the foreground are General August Neidhart, Count of Gneisenau, and Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Chief of the Prussian General Staff. The man in civilian dress is Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein who introduced the Prussian reforms that paved the way for the unification of Germany. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)