Blücher

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People surnamed Blücher include:

• Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), a Napoleonic era Prussian general
• Gebhard von Blücher (1865-1931), husband of Evelyn, Princess Blücher
• Franz Blücher (1896-1959), politician
• Heinrich Blücher (1899-1970), philosopher
• Vasily Blücher (1899-1938), Marshal of the Soviet Union (named after the Prussian general)
• Erik Blücher (born 1953), expatriate Norwegian far-right activist

Ships named Blücher (after Gebhard von Blücher) include:

• SMS Blücher (corvette), a training corvette of the Imperial German navy
• Blücher (steamship), a 1901 steamship of the Hamburg America Line
• SMS Blücher, an armoured cruiser of World War I
• German cruiser Blücher, a heavy cruiser of World War II

Other things named Blücher include

• A type of shoe whose laces tie over the tongue on two flaps
• Blücher Order, an East German decoration named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
• Blücher (locomotive), an early railway locomotive built by George Stephenson
• Blücher is the name of a song by power metal band Kamelot from their 2007 album Ghost Opera.
• Wolf pack Blücher, a German wolf pack of World War II
• Frau Blücher, a character in the 1974 film Young Frankenstein
• Blücher, a hand in the British card game Napoleon
• Blucher, Newcastle, a small district of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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