Blücher
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The name Blücher can refer to, depending on context:
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, a Napoleonic Era Prussian general, and the three German ships named after him:
- Blücher, a corvette of the Imperial era
- SMS Blücher, an armoured cruiser of World War I
- Blücher, a heavy cruiser of World War II
- Blücher Order, a GDR decoration
- Heinrich Blücher, a German philosopher
- Vasily Blyukher, Marshal of the Soviet Union (named after the Prussian general)
- Blücher, an early railway locomotive built by George Stephenson
- Blücher, a German wolf pack of World War II
- Blücher or Blucher, a type of shoe whose laces tie over the tongue on two flaps, sometimes used in yachting
- Frau Blücher, a character in the 1974 film Young Frankenstein
- Blücher, a hand in the the British card game Napoleon or Nap