Spee
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Spee is the family name of:
It may also refer to:
- Friedrich Spee (Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld), a German Jesuit and author of Cautio Criminalis
- Maximilian von SpeeMaximilian von SpeeVice Admiral Maximilian Reichsgraf von Spee was a German admiral. Although he was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the counts von Spee belonged to the prominent families of the Rhenish nobility. He joined the Kaiserliche Marine in 1878. In 1887–88 he commanded the Kamerun ports, in German West...
, an admiral in the Imperial German Navy
It may also refer to:
- German cruiser Admiral Graf SpeeGerman cruiser Admiral Graf SpeeAdmiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron that fought the battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands in World War I...
, scuttled outside the port of Montevideo in 1939