Sir John Henry William Schröder, 1st Baronet and Baron von Schröder was an Anglo-German merchant banker, his firm later becoming Schroders PLC.
Schröder family arms, as used by the baronet
Baron Schroder
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Prussia was a German state centred on the North European Plain. It originated from the 1525 secularization act of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, the House of Hohe
Sir John Schroder, 1st Baronet
…PLC. He was born Baron Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Schröder in Hamburg, Germany, the fourth of 12 children of Baron Johann Heinrich von Schröder (in the Prussian nobility) and Henriette von Schwartz. Both his parents were from leading Hamburg merchant families. In 1841, at the age of 16, Schröder joined the…
Situation after the conquest in the late 13th century. Areas in purple under control of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.
Prussian Homage by Jan Matejko. After admitting the dependence of Prussia to the Polish Crown, Albert of Prussia receives Ducal Prussia as a fief from King Sigismund I the Old of Poland in 1525.
The "Great Elector" and his wife
Frederick I, King in Prussia