Talk:Trenck family
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editThis article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because the Trenck family is one of the oldest aristrocratic German families. They produced two major historic figures -- Baron Friedrich von der Trenck an officer and authors, subject of several films and Baron Franz von der Trenck. Franz von der Trenck earned most of his fame during the War of the Austrian Succession, as the leader and commander of a unit of pandurs, or paramilitary troops in the Austrian army which specialized in frontier warfare, guerrilla tactics and surprise hit-and-run actions, into which he recruited mostly Croatian mercenaries, experienced fighters from the Austro-Ottoman border.
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editThis page should not be speedily deleted because the Trenck family is a very well known historic family from Germany. Mark Twain has written about the family as well as George Sand. One member of the family secretly married the sister of King Frederic the Great of Prussia and was punished for it by Frederic the Great. Trenck's memoires have been read since more than two centuries. He was beheaded in the French revolution. Moreover, Friederich had a famous cousin, Franz, who earned most of his fame during the War of the Austrian Succession, as the leader and commander of a unit of pandurs, or paramilitary troops in the Austrian army which specialized in frontier warfare, guerrilla tactics and surprise hit-and-run actions, into which he recruited mostly Croatian mercenaries, experienced fighters from the Austro-Ottoman border. There even is a yearly festival called "Trenck der Pandur vor Waldmünchen"
http://www.trenckfestspiele.de/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vdtrenck (talk • contribs) 23:34, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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editThis article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because the Trenck family has an entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vdtrenck (talk • contribs) 00:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)