Gneisenau
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Gneisenau may refer to:
- August von Gneisenau, a Prussian general
- One of four German naval ships named after the general:
- * SMS Gneisenau (1879), a three-masted iron-hulled frigate launched in 1879, wrecked of Málaga in 1900
- * SMS Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands
- * German battlecruiser Gneisenau, launched in 1936, which saw some action in World War II
- *Schulfregatte Gneisenau, a training vessel of the Bundesmarine
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