Eleonore Prochaska
- "Potsdam girl"
- German woman soldier who fought in the Prussian army
- Served as a drummer, then later as an infantryman
- Joined the Lützow Free Corps taking the name August Renz
- Almost all of them were ejected from the army when they found out that they were women exept one: Friederike Kruger
- Home town of Potsdam created a monument to her memory "In memory of the virgin-heroine"
- She was severely wounded at the Battle of the Göhrde
- When treating her wounds they discovered she was a woman and took her to Dannenberg
- Various plays and poems were written on her life
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