Imperial general Albrect von Wallenstein
A)was assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand.
B)was killed at the Battle of Nördlingen.
C)betrayed the imperial cause by joining the French army.
D)resigned his commission when it was revealed he was a secret convert to Lutheranism.
E)became the ruler of the Baltic port of Hamburg with the Peace of Westphalia.

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Albrect von Wallenstein was assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II in 1634. The emperor feared that Wallenstein, a powerful military leader with significant political influence, was becoming too ambitious and might plot against him. The assassination occurred during the Thirty Years' War, a large-scale conflict that involved many European powers and had already caused significant devastation in Germany.

Imperial General Albrect Von Wallenstein