2015 Event The German government approves the Greek bailout deal, which was also approved by the Greek parliament earlier this week; German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that chaos would result if the deal did not go through 2014 Event German company Linde begins constructing a facility to convert wind power to hydrogen; the plant will help Germany in its efforts to increase reliance on renewable energy sources 2014 Event German design company Art+Com sues Google, claiming the Internet company infringed on its patented spatial mapping technology by incorporating its features into Google Earth; Art+Com offered to sell the patent to Google in 2006 but wasn't satisfied with Google's offer 2013 Event The U.S. Ambassador is summoned by Germany over suspicions that the U.S. monitored the cell phone calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel 2013 Event Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine include German scientist Thomas C. Sudhof and American scientists Randy Schekman and James Rothman 2013 Event The German racing horse, Novellist, wins the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2013 Event German authorities are forced to evacuate 10 villages as heavy rains swell the Elbe River, breaching its banks 2012 Event As German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Greece, an estimated 25,000 protest in Athens 2012 Event The President of Germany's Social Democratic Party, Sigmar Gabriel recommends Peer Steinbruck as the party's Chancellor candidate for the 2012 German federal election 2012 Event Deutsche Bank, the German global financial services company, announces plans to cut 1,900 jobs 2012 Event The U-550, a sunken German U-Boat, is discovered off the cost of Massachusetts 2012 Event German opera singer and baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, dies age age 86 2012 Event German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.' 2012 Event A German government plan proposing that a eurozone 'budget commissioner' take control of Greece's economic affairs is leaked 2011 Event A World War II-era bomb is discovered in the German city of Halle; 12,000 people are evacuated 2011 Event At the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Danedream wins with a record racing speed of 2:24.49, the second German horse to win since 1975 2011 Event The European Financial Stability Facility is approved by the German Bundestag 2011 Event A German naval mine from World War II is discovered and dismantled by BP; removing the bomb avoided potential closure of 16 oil fields 2010 Event Germany holds its first pirate trial in 400 years, placing ten Somalia�s on trial for attacking a German ship 2010 Event The German economy reports 2.2 percent quarterly growth, the fastest quarterly growth in over 20 years 2010 Event German Chancellor Angela Merkel agrees to spread $80 million pounds in savings across four years with her coalition cabinet 2006 Death Johannes Rau, German Statesman 2005 Death Ernst Mayr, German Scientist 2004 Death Carl Rakosi, German Poet 2003 Death Dorothee Solle, German Theologian 2001 Death W. G. Sebald, German Writer 1998 Death Ernst Juenger, German writer, dies at 102 1997 Event Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion 1997 Death Manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90 1997 Death Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies 1997 Death Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany 1997 Death Martin Kippenberger, German Artist 1996 Death Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60 1996 Death Kurt Schmucker, German RFA minister of Economy (1963-66), dies 1995 Death Konrad Zuse, German Inventor 1995 Event 26th New York City Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00 1995 Death Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65 1995 Death Gunter Guillaume, German politican, dies 1995 Death Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91 1995 Death Marion Herbst, German/Dutch jewelry designer, dies at 50 1994 Death Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister, dies at 83 1994 Death Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58 1994 Death G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82 1994 Event Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) 1994 Event 25th New York City Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21 1994 Death Nyanaponika, Siegmund Feniger, German scholar/author, dies at 93 1994 Death Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50 1994 Death Heinz Ruhmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92 1994 Death Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84 1994 Death Manfred Worner, German general/Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59 1994 Death Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51 1994 Death Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82 1994 Death Gottfried Reinhardt, Goldmann, German/US director, dies at 83 1994 Death Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies 1994 Event Roman Herzog sworn in as German president 1994 Death Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 1994 Death Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85 1994 Death Walter Janka, German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79 1994 Death Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59 1994 Death Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73 1994 Death Hermann Abs, German banker to Hitler and Adenauer, dies at 92 1994 Death Martin Kosleck, German/US actor (Hitler Gang), dies at 86 1993 Death Professor Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80 1993 Death Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist, dies at 84 1993 Death Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47 1993 Death Robert W. Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93 1993 Death Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40 1993 Death Hans Sahl, German/U.S. writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90 1993 Death Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57 1993 Death Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84 1993 Death Gret Palucca, German dancer and choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91 1993 Death Axel Von Dem Bussche, German aristocrat, dies 1993 Death Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies 1992 Death Earnest FH Happel, East German soccer/trainer/coach, dies 1992 Death Gregory Markopoulos, German/U.S. director (Iliac Passion, Bliss), dies 1992 Death Hans Zullig, Swiss/German dancer (Green Table), dies 1992 Death Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44 1992 Death Willy Brandt, German chancellor (1969-74), dies 1992 Event Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship 1992 Death Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies 1991 Death Roy Black, German singer and actor (Kinderarzt Dr. Froehlich), dies 1991 Death Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 1991 Death Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies 1991 Death Heidi Bruhl, German actress (Madels vom Immenhof), dies at 49 1991 Death Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90 1991 Death Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90 1990 Death Horst Bienek, German author, dies 1990 Event Iraq announces it will free all German hostages 1990 Event West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty 1990 Death Norbert Elias, German/English/Netherlands philosopher/sociologist, dies 1990 Event German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency 1990 Death Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany 1990 Event 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss 1990 Death Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83 1990 Death Gerhard Schroder, West German minister of Defense, dies at 79 1989 Death Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies 1989 Death Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59 1989 Event East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns 1989 Event German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland 1989 Event German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed 1988 Death Lotte Stam-Beese, German/Netherlands architect, dies at about 85 1988 Death Franz Josef Strauss, West German Minister of defense 1956 - 1962, dies at 73 1988 Death Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78 1988 Death Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83 1987 Event West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia 1987 Event West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square 1987 Event Mathias Rust, 19, W. German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in U.S.S.R. 1987 Death Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77 1987 Event West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking 1986 Death Rudolf Schock, German opera/operetta singer, dies at 71 1986 Death Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered 1986 Event West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17) 1986 Death Lilli Palmer, German actress (Boys from Brazil, Kinder), dies at 71 1986 Death Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64 1985 Death Simone Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina), dies at 64 1985 Death Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73 1985 Event West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to East Germany 1985 Death Heinrich Boll, German writer (Nobel 1972), dies at 67 1985 Event American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele 1985 Death Karl Marx, German composer and conductor, dies at 87 1985 Event West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust 1984 Event West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption 1984 Death Rudolf Hagelstange, German author (Zeit fur ein Lacheln), dies at 72 1984 Death Karl Rahner, German Theologian 1984 Death Martin Niemoller, German submarine captain and anti-nazi minister, dies at 92 1984 Death Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77 1983 Event 104 degrees F (40.3 degrees C) in Garmersdorf (German record) 1983 Death Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82 1983 Event Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections 1982 Death Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87 1982 Death Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62 1982 Death Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79 1982 Death Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist, dies 1982 Death Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36 1982 Death Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65 1982 Death Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies 1982 Death Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85 1982 Death Carl Orff, German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86 1982 Death Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80 1981 Death Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76 1981 Death Hermann Schey, German/Netherlands singer, dies at 85 1981 Death Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer, dies at 75 1981 Death Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies 1981 Death Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer and actress (Gabriela), dies at 79 1981 Event Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike 1981 Death Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74 1980 Death Karl Donitz, German great admiral/Fuhrer (1945), dies at 89 1980 Death Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74 1980 Death Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73 1980 Event West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow 1980 Event West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium) 1980 Death Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70 1980 Death Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79 1980 Death Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82 1980 Death Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66 1980 Death Axel Springer, Jr., German photographer, commits suicide at 38 1979 Death Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39 1979 Death Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal (4 of Breda), dies at 71 1979 Death Paul Dessau, German composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), dies at 84 1979 Death Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65 1979 Death Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies 1978 Death Hanns Johst, German Playwright 1978 Death Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation 1978 Death Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80 1978 Event Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6 1978 Death Kurt Student, German Soldier 1977 Event Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found 1977 Event W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu 1977 Event West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers 1977 Event West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht 1977 Event RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer 1977 Death Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92 1977 Death Jurgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered 1977 Death Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist, dies at 75 1977 Death Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80 1977 Death Siegfried Buback, West German procureur-general, murdered attorney-general 1977 Death Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80 1976 Death Franz MT de Liage Bohl, German/Dutch assyriologist, dies at 94 1976 Event West German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis 1976 Event Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election 1976 Death Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88 1976 Death Oskar Brusewitz, East German vicar, sets self on fire 1976 Birthday Diane Kruger, German Model 1976 Death Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76 1976 Death Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg), dies at 86 1976 Death Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85 1976 Death Werner Heisenberg, German Physicist 1975 Death Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat, dies at 78 1975 Death Hannah Arendt, German Historian 1975 Death Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter, dies at 88 1975 Death Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies 1975 Event West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm, Sweden 1975 Death Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75 1975 Death Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72 1974 Death Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91 1974 Death Mascha Kaleko, writer, German language poet, dies at 48 1974 Death Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67 1974 Event Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor 1974 Event West German chancellor W. Brandt resigns 1974 Death Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician 1973 Event West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia 1973 Death Leo Strauss, German Philosopher 1973 Event Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader 1973 Death Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81 1973 Death Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies at 72 1973 Death Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78 1973 Death Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88 1973 Death Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85 1973 Death Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian/German conductor (London Symphony), dies at 43 1973 Death Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 1972 Death Gunter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 65 1972 Death Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75 1972 Event Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor 1972 Death Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies 1972 Death Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79 1972 Event Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election 1972 Death Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies 1972 Death Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1972 Event East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156 1972 Event West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof 1972 Event German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel 1972 Event West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader 1972 Death Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82 1972 Death Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64 1972 Death C. W. Ceram, Kurt Marek, German/U.S. writer (1st American), dies at 57 1972 Death Stefan Wolpe, German composer (Zeus and Elidco), dies at 69 1972 Death Franz Halder, German Soldier 1972 Event German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed 1972 Death Richard Courant, German/US mathematician, dies at 84 1971 Event West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace 1971 Death Gerhard von Rad, German old testament expert, dies at 70 1971 Event West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1971 Event West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev 1971 Death Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer, dies at 59 1971 Death Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 1971 Death Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70 1971 Event Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader 1970 Death Dora Paulen, German/Dutch cabaretiere, dies at about 72 1970 Death Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72 1970 Death Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer 1970 Death Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79 1970 Death Jochen Rindt, German race car driver, dies at 28 1970 Death Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante and Arioso), dies at 58 1970 Event West German chancellor and East German premier Willy Brandt meet 1970 Event Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France) 1970 Death Albert Mahll, German writer, dies at 76 1970 Death Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 1969 Event West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands 1969 Event SPD wins West German Parliament elections 1969 Death Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies 1969 Death Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81 1969 Death Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65 1969 Death Otto Dix, German Artist 1969 Death Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85 1969 Death Willy Ley, German Writer 1969 Death Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89 1969 Death Franz von Papen, German Politician 1969 Death Gunther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66 1969 Death Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87 1969 Death Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist/philosopher, dies at 86 1969 Death Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82 1969 Birthday Michael Schumacher, German Celebrity 1968 Death Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 1968 Death Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81 1968 Death Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 1968 Death Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies 1968 Event E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" 1968 Event West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law 1968 Death George KFW von Kuchler, German marshal (Netherlands 1940), dies at 86 1968 Event 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution 1968 Death Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies 1968 Death Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78 1967 Death Richard Kuhn, German chemist, dies 1967 Death Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59 1967 Death Konrad Adenauer, German Statesman 1967 Death Max Ophuls, Oppenheimer, German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies 1967 Death Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60 1967 Death Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53 1967 Death Otto Dibelius, German theologian/bishop, dies at 86 1966 Event Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor 1966 Death Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75 1966 Death Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies 1966 Death Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35 1966 Death Kasimir Edschmid, Karl E Schmidt, German writer, dies at 75 1966 Death Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64 1966 Death Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87 1966 Death German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44 1966 Death Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74 1966 Event French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry 1966 Event 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes 1966 Death Paul Althaus, German theologist (That Christian Wahrheit), dies at 78 1966 Death Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89 1966 Death Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72 1966 Death Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85 1966 Death Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84 1965 Death Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73 1965 Death Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies 1965 Birthday German Titov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, Calgary Flames, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics 1965 Event Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections 1965 Death Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90 1965 Birthday Uwe Boll, German Director 1965 Death Martin Buber, German/Israel philosopher/zionist/theologist, dies at 87 1965 Event West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution 1965 Event East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt 1965 Birthday Christine Wachtel, E German running star, world indoor record 800m 1964 Death Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63 1964 Death Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85 1964 Death Paul E Kahle, German orientalist, dies 1964 Death Leo Weismantel, German writer (Das Totenliebespar), dies at 76 1964 Death August Sander, German Photographer 1964 Birthday Evi Strasser, Bavaria German, equestrian 1996 Olympics 1964 Death Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77 1964 Death Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80 1964 Event Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" and "Sie Leibt Dich" 1964 Death Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67 1963 Death Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68 1963 Death Winifried P I Zillig, German composer and conductor (Opfer), dies at 58 1963 Death Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62 1963 Event Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor 1963 Event West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R. 1963 Death Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68 1963 Death Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle), dies at 77 1963 Birthday Petra Schneider, E German swimming star, world record 400m 1962 Death Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64 1962 Death Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84 1962 Death Hanns Eisler, composer (North Vietnam/East German National Anthem), dies at 64 1962 Death Walter Anderson, German Writer 1962 Event E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector 1962 Death Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 1962 Death Herman Hesse, German Author 1962 Death Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65 1962 Death Adolf Eichmann, German Criminal 1962 Death Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 1962 Death Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81 1961 Birthday Kathrin Dorre, East German marathoner 1988 Olympics bronze 1961 Death Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist, dies at 63 1961 Event CDU loses West German election 1961 Birthday Thomas Dooley, German Athlete 1961 Death Karl Albiker, German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83 1960 Death Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at 54 1960 Death Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies at 57 1960 Death Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies 1960 Death Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68 1960 Death Albrecht von Kesselring, German Field Marshal (Italy), dies at 74 1960 Death WH Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda), dies at 67 1960 Death Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 1960 Death Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter, dies at 90 1960 Death Joseph Haas, German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 1959 Event Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic 1959 Death George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65 1959 Death Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68 1959 Death A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Hamlet, Nora), dies at 73 1958 Birthday Cornelia Funke, German Author 1958 Death Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61 1958 Death Max Jakob Friedlander, German/Dutch art historian, dies at 91 1958 Death Leo Blech, studied with Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer, dies at 87 1958 Death Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday 1958 Death Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies 1958 Death Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies at 89 1958 Death Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies 1958 Event West German parliament desires German atomic weapons 1958 Death Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70 1958 Death Paul Fechter, German writer/historian (God's Magician), dies 1957 Death Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78 1957 Event German Dem Rep recalls East Mark and issues new currency 1957 Death Erich Auerbach, German writer and educator, dies 1957 Event German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean 1957 Death Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 1957 Birthday Hansi Muller, born in Stuttgart, Germany, athlete, footballer, played for German national football team 1957 Death Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52 1957 Death Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder (Sturm), dies at 78 1957 Death Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67 1957 Death Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80 1957 Death Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies 1957 Death Walther Bothe, German Physicist 1957 Death Friedrich von Paulus, German field marshall (Stalingrad), dies at 66 1957 Event France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep 1956 Death Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christ's Church), dies at 73 1956 Death Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60 1956 Death Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83 1956 Death Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage), dies at 58 1956 Death Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German Foreign Minister (1932-38), dies 1956 Death Bertolt Brecht, German Poet 1956 Death Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (Study of Graves), dies at 83 1956 Death Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83 1956 Death Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies at 82 1956 Death Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73 1956 Death Albrecht G Alt, German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72 1956 Death Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70 1956 Death Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88 1956 Death Fritz Kunkel, German physician/charachterologist, dies at 66 1956 Event German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed 1956 Death Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at 85 1956 Death Gunther Ramin, German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57 1956 Death Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64 1955 Birthday Ed Kuepper, German/Australian, singer and songwriter, Saints 1955 Death Otto Braun, German Politician 1955 Death Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician 1955 Event 1st West German officers sworn in 1955 Birthday Roland Emmerich, German Director 1955 Event Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938 1955 Death Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80 1955 Death Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73 1955 Death Edwin Scharff, German painter/sculptor (Rossebandiger), dies at 68 1955 Event German Federal Republic joins NATO 1955 Event West German unions protest for 40-hour work week and more wages 1955 Death Albert Einstein, German U.S. physicist, dies 1955 Birthday Nina Hagen, German Musician 1955 Event U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic 1954 Death Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor/composer, dies at 68 1954 Death Professor Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist, dies at 69 1954 Death Friedrich Lubke, German politician, dies at 67 1954 Death Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies 1954 Death Hermann W. S. Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71 1954 Event West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany 1954 Birthday Angela Merkel, German Statesman 1954 Event German airline Lufthansa forms 1954 Death Heinz Guderian, German Soldier 1954 Death Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79 1954 Event German government refuses to recognize DDR 1953 Death Eduard Kunneke, German composer (Majority Sunderin), dies at 68 1953 Event Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor 1953 Death Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies 1953 Birthday Martin Kippenberger, German Artist 1953 Death Karl R G von Rundstedt, German General-Field Marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77 1953 Death Gerd von Rundstedt, German Soldier 1953 Death Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56 1952 Death Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67 1952 Event Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel 1952 Death Alfred Neumann, German writer, dies at 56 1952 Event West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews 1952 Birthday Rudolf Schenker, German rock guitarist, Scorpions-Virgin Killer 1952 Event German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments 1952 Death Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies 1952 Event East German SED decides to form East Germany army 1952 Death Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies 1952 Event German "Country" Bathe-Wurttemberg forms 1952 Event Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer 1952 Death Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed 1952 Death Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71 1951 Death Wolfgang Schulze, Wols, German drawer/painter, dies at 38 1951 Death Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon, dies at 75 1951 Death Armin Knab, German composer (Wunderhorn), dies at 70 1951 Death Alfred Hugenberg, German RC president-director of Krupp/media magnate, dies 1951 Event Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed 1951 Death Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75 1951 Death Wilhelm Schafer, German writer (Mein Leben), dies at 82 1951 Event German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison 1950 Death Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66 1950 Death Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65 1950 Death Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83 1950 Event Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government 1950 Event East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification 1950 Event Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death 1950 Birthday Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 1950 Death Karl Straube, German organist/conductor, dies 1950 Death Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50 1950 Death Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59 1950 Death L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78 1950 Death Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer), dies at 80 1950 Death Gustav Krupp, German Businessman 1949 Birthday Petra Kelly, German peace activist/MP, Green 1949 Death Gustav Radbruch, German Minister of Justice, dies 1949 Event German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day) 1949 Death Theodor Zockler, German theologist (Jodenzending), dies at 82 1949 Death Richard Strauss, German composer 'Don Quixote' and 'Metamorphosis', dies at 85 1949 Death Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80 1949 Death Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies 1949 Death Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42 1949 Event West German constitution approved 1949 Death Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54 1948 Death Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies 1948 Death Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71 1948 Death [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German Field Marshal, dies 1948 Death Paul Wegener, German actor and director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73 1948 Death Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist, dies 1948 Death Gerhard Anschutz, German professor, dies at 81 1948 Birthday Joschka Fischer, German Politician 1948 Death Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 1948 Death Johann Blaskowitz, German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64 1948 Birthday Manfred Kokot, East German runner, world record 50 m indoor 1948 Death Hermann K J Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66 1947 Death Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79 1947 Death Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84 1947 Death Wolfgang Borchert, German author (Draussen vor of the Tur), dies at 26 1947 Death Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64 1947 Death Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies 1947 Death Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76 1947 Death Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82 1947 Death Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61 1947 Death Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77 1946 Event German "Country" Nedersaksen forms 1946 Event West German state of Niedersachsen formed 1946 Event German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R. 1946 Death Alfred G Jodl, Colonel General/German staff chief weather authority, hanged 1946 Death Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Julius Streicher, German District Leader (Of Sturmer), hanged 1946 Death Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Wilhelm Keitel, German Field Marshal, hanged 1946 Death Hans Frank, German Public Servant 1946 Death Alfred Jodl, German Soldier 1946 Death Heinrich George, German actor (Jud Suss), commits suicide at 52 1946 Death Paul Lincke, German composer and conductor (Lysistrata), dies at 79 1946 Death Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies 1946 Birthday Daria Semegen, born in Bambery, West German, composer, classical music, electronic music genres, Fulbright Fellow 1946 Birthday Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, Marriage of Maria Braum 1946 Death Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67 1946 Birthday Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor, Ehe der Maria Braun 1945 Death Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide 1945 Event German rocket engineers begin work in U.S. 1945 Birthday Franz Beckenbauer, German Athlete 1945 Death Franz Werfel, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. poet and writer, 'Mirror Man', dies at 54 1945 Birthday Wim Wenders, West German director, American Friend, Hammett 1945 Event German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British 1945 Event German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured 1945 Event Formal undertaking of complete German surrender 1945 Event General J. Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands 1945 Event German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender 1945 Event Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg 1945 Event German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed 1945 Event German Army in Italy surrenders 1945 Event Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government 1945 Event Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin 1945 Death Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56 1945 Event Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed 1945 Death Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77 1945 Event Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory 1945 Event German occupiers flood Beemster and Fencer 1945 Event U.S. 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg 1945 Event Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops 1945 Event German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands 1945 Death Walter Model, German Field Marshal, commits suicide at 54 1945 Event German troops in Groningen surrender 1945 Event German troops attack Ijsselbrug 1945 Death Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged 1945 Death Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged 1945 Death Theodor Haecker, German cultural philosopher (Mensch?), dies at 65 1945 Event 1st and last assault of German Rammkommando on U.S. bombers 1945 Death Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63 1945 Death Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79 1945 Event Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London 1945 Event General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken 1945 Event Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities 1945 Death Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1945 Birthday Anselm Kiefer, German Artist 1945 Death Adolf Bartels, German writer/racist, dies at 82 1945 Death Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies 1945 Event German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed 1945 Death Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90 1945 Death Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37 1945 Birthday Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz, German, British princess 1945 Event German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge 1945 Event Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen 1945 Event German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels 1944 Death Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies 1944 Event German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill) 1944 Event German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland 1944 Event German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar 1944 Event German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht 1944 Event German troops seize Betuwse dikes 1944 Event RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway 1944 Event German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany 1944 Event Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders 1944 Death Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies 1944 Event German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die 1944 Event German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald 1944 Event German troops in Vlissingen surrenders 1944 Event During WW II, U.S. troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall 1944 Death Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52 1944 Event German army retreats from Athens 1944 Event German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam 1944 Death Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries 1944 Death Paul Grabner, German SS-captain, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Event Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers 1944 Death ... Kussin, German General-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle 1944 Death Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged at 62 1944 Death Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide 1944 Event Anti German rebellion in Slovakia 1944 Event Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared 1944 Death Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald 1944 Event Bulgaria announces withdrawal and German troops are to be disarmed 1944 Event U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap 1944 Death Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62 1944 Death Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies 1944 Event German Field Marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy 1944 Event German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day 1944 Death Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged at 62 1944 Death Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged 1944 Event German counter attack at Avranches fails 1944 Death Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz 1944 Event Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines 1944 Event 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions 1944 Death Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Event Field Marshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen 1944 Death Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing 1944 Death Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies 1944 Death Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Death Heinz Burns, German, Gold Medal 1936 Olympics, dies in bombing 1944 Death Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Death Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Death Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier 1944 Event British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland 1944 Death Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle 1944 Death Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies 1944 Event 1,100 U.S. guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy 1944 Event Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber 1944 Event 2500+ killed in London and South East England by German flying bombs 1944 Event German counter attack at Caen 1944 Event German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy 1944 Event German defense line in Italy collapsed 1944 Birthday W. G. Sebald, German Writer 1944 Event 91 German bombers harass Bristol 1944 Event German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia 1944 Event Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats 1944 Birthday Gerhard Schroeder, German Statesman 1944 Death Isolde Kurz, German writer/poet (Meine Mutter), dies at 90 1944 Event German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed 1944 Death Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86 1944 Event German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy 1944 Event 285 German bombers attack London 1944 Event 447 German bombers attack London 1944 Death Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down 1944 Birthday Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian/German chess player 1944 Death Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80 1943 Event German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea 1943 Event British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1943 Birthday Silvia Sommerlath, German wife of King Carl XVI of Sweden, 1973- 1943 Death Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46 1943 Death Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38 1943 Death Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67 1943 Event Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost" 1943 Event German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) 1943 Event 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel 1943 Event German riots at Amsterdam Jews 1943 Event German counter attack at Salerno 1943 Event German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government 1943 Event Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island 1943 Event German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City 1943 Event 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome 1943 Death Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies 1943 Event German occupiers impose 72-hour work week 1943 Death Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88 1943 Event U.S. air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen 1943 Death Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide 1943 Death Gustav Schmidt, German Lieutenant-General, dies in battle 1943 Death Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68 1943 Death Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50 1943 Event Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker 1943 Event 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed 1943 Event German round up Jews in Amsterdam 1943 Event German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor 1943 Event German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins 1943 Event German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw 1943 Event German and Italian forces in Africa surrender 1943 Event German occupiers confiscate all radios 1943 Event German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender 1943 Event 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia 1943 Event German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia 1943 Event German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes 1943 Event German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta 1943 Event German counter attack in North-Tunisia 1943 Event RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea 1943 Death Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Death Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Death Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Event 40 German bombers attack Haarlem, Netherlands, 85 killed 1943 Death Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54 1943 Death Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr. Calgary), dies at 50 1943 Event German counter attack on U.S. lines in Tunisia 1943 Event German U-384 bombed and sinks 1943 Event German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia 1943 Event German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia 1943 Death Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies 1943 Death Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24 1943 Death Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded 1943 Event German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia 1943 Event German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia 1943 Event German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia 1943 Death David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81 1943 Event German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front 1943 Event German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp 1943 Event Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army 1943 Event German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II 1943 Event German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier 1943 Event German assault on French in Tunisia 1943 Event German under officers shot down in Haarlem, Netherlands 1943 Event Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian and Croatian 1943 Event German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow 1943 Event Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad 1942 Event Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad 1942 Event Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk 1942 Death Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, dies at 63 1942 Event Allies in London sentence German war criminals 1942 Event German offensive in South Western Stalingrad 1942 Event North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel General von Arnim 1942 Event German scout ship Altmark explode and sinks off Yokohama 1942 Event German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad 1942 Event Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines 1942 Event Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden" 1942 Event Last German offensive in Stalingrad 1942 Event German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier 1942 Death Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64 1942 Event German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad 1942 Death Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies 1942 Event German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die 1942 Event German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed 1942 Event Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Netherlands) 1942 Death Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies 1942 Event German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad 1942 Event Heavy German assault in Stalingrad 1942 Event German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 1942 Event German forces attack Stalingrad 1942 Event German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle 1942 Event German troops enter Stalingrad 1942 Event German troops land on Taman peninsula 1942 Event Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault 1942 Death Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle 1942 Event Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus 1942 Event General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad 1942 Event German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe 1942 Death Edith Stein, German philosopher, dies 1942 Event German troops cross Kuban River 1942 Event German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed 1942 Event German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers 1942 Event German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1942 Event German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1942 Event German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands 1942 Event German troops occupy Rostov 1942 Event German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja 1942 Event German troops conquer Rostow 1942 Event German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague 1942 Event German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages 1942 Event German troops conquer Sebastopol 1942 Event German assault on British at Mersa Matruh 1942 Death Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67 1942 Event German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa 1942 Event German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa 1942 Death Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies 1942 Death Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia, assassinated 1942 Death Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies 1942 Event Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague 1942 Event German summer offensive opens in Crimea 1942 Event German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages 1942 Event German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach 1942 Event Heavy German assault on Malta 1942 Birthday Jochen Rindt, German race car driver 1942 Event Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of U.S. east coast 1942 Event Heavy German assault on Malta 1942 Event German submarine U-585 sinks 1942 Event Allies raid German submarine base in St. Nazaire 1942 Event German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel General Rommel 1942 Event Heavy German assault on Malta 1942 Event Heavy German assault on Malta 1942 Event Major German assault on Malta 1942 Event German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb 1942 Event Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German) 1942 Event German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery 1942 Event German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery 1942 Event 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany 1942 Death Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50 1942 Birthday Heidi Bruhl, German actress and singer, Madels vom Immenhof 1942 Event German and Italian troops occupy Banghazi 1942 Event German troops occupy Benghazi Libya 1942 Event Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel 1942 Event Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers 1942 Event German U-boats begin harassing shipping on U.S. east coast 1942 Event 55 German tanks reach North-Africa 1942 Event German troops in Bardia surrender 1941 Event German submarine U-567 sinks 1941 Event German submarine U-574 sinks 1941 Event Hitler takes complete command of German Army 1941 Event German submarine U-434 sinks 1941 Event German submarine U-31 sunk 1941 Event German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa 1941 Event German submarine U-127 sinks 1941 Event German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union 1941 Event German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews 1941 Event German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends 1941 Event British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python 1941 Event German troops vacate Rostov 1941 Event German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality) 1941 Event Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar 1941 Event German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow 1941 Event British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis 1941 Event German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia 1941 Death Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 1941 Death Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide 1941 Event German troops conquer Kertsh (probably) 1941 Event German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic 1941 Event German troops occupy Rostov 1941 Event 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe 1941 Event German U-boat torpedoes U.S. destroyer Kearney 1941 Event German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R. 1941 Event German army occupies Briansk, U.S.S.R. 1941 Event German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins 1941 Death Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79 1941 Event Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev 1941 Event German air raid on Russian naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) 1941 Event German army conquerors Kiev 1941 Event Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars 1941 Event German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine 1941 Event Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed 1941 Event 1st German ship in WW II captured by U.S. ship (Busko) 1941 Death Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85 1941 Event All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star 1941 Event U.S. destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652 1941 Event German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children 1941 Event German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad 1941 Event German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan 1941 Death Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London 1941 Event German troops conquer Roslavl U.S.S.R. 1941 Event German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman 1941 Event Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division 1941 Event German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in Netherlands 1941 Event German army enters Ukraine 1941 Event German troops attack Dnjepr 1941 Event German occupiers disband political parties 1941 Event German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev 1941 Event German troops occupy Galicia Poland 1941 Event German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on U.S. battleship Texas 1941 Birthday Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut, STS-9, 42, Soyuz TM-19 1941 Event German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports 1941 Death Hans Berger, German Scientist 1941 Event German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools 1941 Event German capture Kreta 1941 Event German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force 1941 Death Gunther Lutjens, German Admiral (Bismarck), dies 1941 Event Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck 1941 Event German occupiers begin youth labor 1941 Event German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta 1941 Event Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) 1941 Event English Army breaks German spy codes 1941 Event German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean 1941 Event German air raid on Liverpool 1941 Event German assault on Tobruk 1941 Event German troops occupy Athens Greece 1941 Event Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt 1941 Event 100 German bombers attack Athens 1941 Event 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up 1941 Event Heavy German assault on Tobruk 1941 Event German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica 1941 Event German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) 1941 Event German troops conquer Banghazi 1941 Event Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion 1941 Event German counter offensive in North-Africa 1941 Event German troops occupy El Agheila Libya 1941 Death Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67 1941 Death Joachim Schepke, German commandant (U-100), dies in battle 1941 Event German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands 1941 Death Arnold Schering, German musicologist, dies at 63 1941 Death Gunther Prien, German commandant (U-47), dies in battle 1941 Death Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82 1941 Event German troops invade Bulgaria 1941 Death Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56 1941 Event German assault on El Agheila Libya 1941 Event German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya 1941 Event Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments 1941 Death Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67 1941 Birthday Jorg Reme, German/Dutch painter/graphic artist 1940 Event Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault 1940 Event Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst 1940 Death Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78 1940 Event German air raid on Birmingham fails 1940 Event German air raid on Birmingham fails 1940 Event During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England 1940 Event German occupiers issue identity cards 1940 Event Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed 1940 Event German troops occupies Romania 1940 Event 12 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 Event 17 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 Event 47 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 Event Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German 1940 Event 55 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 Death Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48 1940 Event German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government 1940 Event 19 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 Event German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die 1940 Event 28 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 Event German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights 1940 Event German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration 1940 Death Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80 1940 Event German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London 1940 Event 71 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 Event 45 German aircrafts shot down over England 1940 Event Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged 1940 Event Goering's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld 1940 Event 38 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 Event German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth 1940 Event 31 German aircraft shot down over England 1940 Event German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies 1940 Death Paul Hirsch, German Politician 1940 Event "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins 1940 Event British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay 1940 Event German planes attack British ships in the Canal 1940 Event German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms 1940 Event German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches 1940 Event German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names 1940 Event Dutch Prime Minister Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory) 1940 Death Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60 1940 Event SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands 1940 Death Vladimir Koppen, Russian/German/Australia meteorologist, dies at 93 1940 Event German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State 1940 Event German 7th Armour division under General-Major Rommel occupies Cherbourg 1940 Event German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs and chickens 1940 Event France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris 1940 Event German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral 1940 Event German forces occupied Paris during WW II 1940 Event Paris evacuates before German advance 1940 Event German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker 1940 Event German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen 1940 Death Arthur Zimmermann, German Statesman 1940 Event General Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme 1940 Event German forces enter Paris 1940 Event Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach 1940 Event German troops conquer Boulogne 1940 Event German tanks reach Atrecht France 1940 Event German troops conquer Brussels 1940 Event German armour division moves into Northern France 1940 Event German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders 1940 Event German breakthrough at Sedan 1940 Event German breakthrough at Grebbelinie 1940 Event German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug 1940 Death Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65 1940 Event 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed 1940 Event German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die 1940 Event Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt 1940 Event German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow 1940 Birthday Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, Glasnost Berlin 1940 Death Peter Behrens, German architect, dies 1940 Event German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 1940 Event British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway 1940 Event British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway 1940 Death Rene "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56 1940 Birthday Tilo Medek, German composer 1940 Event German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) 1940 Death Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56 1940 Event 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium 1940 Death Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 1939 Death Hans Langsdorff, German Captain (Graaf Spee), commits suicide 1939 Death Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death and Devil), dies at 70 1939 Event German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay 1939 Event Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee 1939 Death Philipp Scheidemann, German MP (SPD)/mayor of Kassel, dies at 74 1939 Event Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die 1939 Event German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship 1939 Event German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland 1939 Event Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents 1939 Death Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr 1939 Event 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry 1939 Event German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard 1939 Event Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland 1939 Event German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed 1939 Event German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed) 1939 Event German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs 1939 Event British fleet takes German U-27 boat 1939 Event Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland 1939 Event German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die 1939 Event British fleet attacks German U-39 boat 1939 Event 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II 1939 Event German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 Event German troops move into Danzig 1939 Event German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 Event Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech 1939 Event Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion 1939 Event German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises 1939 Event Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service 1939 Birthday Volker Braun, born in Dresden, German, writer, poet, playwright, wrote 'Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts' or 'The Unrestrained Life of Kast' 1939 Death [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71 1939 Death Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van olien), dies 1939 Birthday Ernst Zundel, German Activist 1939 Event Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey 1939 Event Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews 1939 Event 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania 1939 Death [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at 86 1939 Event German battleship Bismarck was launched 1939 Event Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews 1938 Event French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) 1938 Event Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declared them German citizens 1938 Event German and Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi 1938 Death Earnest von Rath, German antifascist/diplomat, murdered 1938 Event German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires 1938 Birthday Karl Lagerfeld, German Designer 1938 Death Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist, dies at 74 1938 Death Rudolf G Binding, German poet and writer, dies at 70 1938 Death Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58 1938 Event German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery 1938 Death Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48 1938 Death Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79 1938 Death Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66 1938 Event Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country 1938 Death Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64 1938 Event German troops entered Austria 1938 Death Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss house painter, dies at 77 1938 Event Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts 1938 Death Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver, dies at 28 1937 Event German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany 1937 Death Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72 1937 Birthday Jurek Becker, born in Lodz, Poland, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar' 1937 Event German battleships bomb Almeria, Spain 1937 Death Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation in Wuste), dies 1937 Event German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain 1937 Death Rudolf Otto, German Theologian 1937 Death Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75 1936 Death Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70 1936 Birthday Hans Zender, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, composer, conductor, music professor, Conductor in Chief of the Chamber Orchestra of Radio Netherlands in Hilversum, Southwest German Radio guest conductor 1936 Event German air force begins bombing of Madrid 1936 Birthday Wolf Biermann, born in Hamburg, Germany, singer, songwriter, former East German dissident, wrote folk music, political ballads, studied political economics at Humboldt University of Berlin 1936 Death Edward German, composer, dies at 74 1936 Birthday Horst Antes, German painter 1936 Birthday Annerose Schmidt, East German pianist 1936 Death Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70 1936 Event Princess Juliana and German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged 1936 Event Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl 1936 Event German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis 1936 Death Karl Kraus, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture, dies at 62 1936 Birthday Karl Lehmann, German Clergyman 1936 Death Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies 1936 Death Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74 1935 Event Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship 1935 Death Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, German author, dies at 89 1935 Event Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany 1935 Event Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews 1935 Birthday Edward McInnes, German scholar 1935 Event Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty 1935 Birthday Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano, Salome, Lulu 1935 Event Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe 1935 Birthday Conrad Klapheck, German painter, typewriters 1935 Birthday Georg Katzer, born in Habelschwerdt, Lower Silesia, German composer, established electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic 1934 Event Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power 1934 Event German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi 1934 Death Carl P G von Linde, German physicist (Linde-procede), dies at 92 1934 Death Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Netherlands manufacturer (Devout and D), dies 1934 Birthday Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member 1934 Event Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles 1934 Birthday Manfred Worner, German General/Secretary-General, NATO, 1988-94 1934 Death Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79 1934 Event Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters) 1934 Death Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian 1928 Olympics gold 1934 Death Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier 1934 Event SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps 1934 Death Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46 1934 Death Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42 1934 Death Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered 1934 Death Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52 1934 Death Theodor Dabler, German writer (Tie Sternenkind), dies 1934 Birthday Adolf Muschg, born in Zollikon, canton of Zurich, writer, German language and literature professor, wrote provocative works, including If Auschwitz is in Switzerland 1934 Death Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88 1934 Event Hitler proclamation on German unified states 1934 Death Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65 1934 Event Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld 1933 Death Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81 1933 Death Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65 1933 Birthday Irmtraud Morgner, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society 1933 Birthday Reiner Kunze, born in Oelsnitz, Germany, writer, dissident of the German Democratic Republic, book, 'The Lovely Years', published in West Germany 1933 Event German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe 1933 Death Max Schillings, German composer and conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65 1933 Event German party Catholic Center disbands 1933 Event German nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work 1933 Event German social-democratic party, SPD, forbidden 1933 Death Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies 1933 Event German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established 1933 Death John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69 1933 Death Felix Adler, German Educator 1933 Event German Republic gives power to Hitler 1933 Event German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler 1933 Event Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers 1933 Event Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda 1933 Event German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested 1933 Event German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion 1933 Event Hitler disallows German Communist Party (KPD) 1933 Event Nazis set fire to German parliament building, Reichstag, blame it on Communists 1933 Event Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin 1933 Event Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party 1933 Event German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis 1933 Event Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary 1933 Event German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press 1933 Event German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts 1933 Event German Parliament disolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe 1933 Event Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen 1933 Event German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor 1933 Event German government of Von Schleicher falls 1933 Death Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classicist/writer, dies at 80 1933 Death Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at 56 1932 Death Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82 1932 Event German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa 1932 Event Shaft and Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor 1932 Event German government of von Papen, resigns 1932 Event German election - KPD defeats NSDAP 1932 Event Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program 1932 Death Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63 1932 Event German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved 1932 Death Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59 1932 Event German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) 1932 Birthday Otto Schily, German Public Servant 1932 Event German government of von Papen forms 1932 Event Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament 1932 Event German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) 1932 Event German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter 1932 Event Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1932 Birthday Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema 1932 Death Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77 1931 Birthday Mauricio Kagel, Argentina/German composer 1931 Event German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism 1931 Death Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84 1931 Death Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86 1931 Birthday Frank Auerbach, German Artist 1931 Birthday Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright, Deputy 1931 Death Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83 1931 Birthday Johannes Rau, German Statesman 1930 Death Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67 1930 Death Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81 1930 Event New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform 1930 Birthday Harry Glass, born in East Germany, 1st E German Olympic medalist, bronze-1956 1930 Event Nazis gain 107 seats in German election 1930 Death Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61 1930 Death Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82 1930 Death Helena Lange, German feminist, dies 1930 Birthday Horst Bienek, German poet 1930 Birthday Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer 1930 Death Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22 1929 Birthday Werner Rackwitz, German musicologist, Handel-Renaissance 1929 Death Herman Hollerith, German/U.S. statistician (punch card), dies at 69 1929 Birthday Renate Rubinstein, Tamar, German/Ned's author/columnist, Tamar 1929 Birthday Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author, Verhor von Habana 1929 Death Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62 1929 Death Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76 1929 Death Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52 1929 Event Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister 1929 Death Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51 1929 Birthday Dorothee Solle-Nipperdey, German theologist, Politicial Nightprayer 1929 Birthday Dorothee Solle, German Theologian 1929 Event German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight 1929 Death Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74 1929 Death Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71 1929 Event German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight 1929 Event President Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I 1929 Birthday Jurgen Habermans, German sociologist, Frankfurter Schule 1929 Birthday Jurgen Habermas, German Philosopher 1929 Death Friedrich Lienhard, German publisher (Turmer), dies at 63 1929 Birthday Walter Kempowski, German writer, Tadelloser and Wolff 1929 Birthday Christa Wolf, German novelist, Divided Heaven 1929 Event General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel 1929 Birthday Gunter Kunert, German poet/writer, Kaiser von Hondu 1929 Death Albert Steinruck, German actor (Golem), dies at 56 1929 Death Dietrich Schafer, German historian (Mein Leben), dies at 83 1928 Death Reinhard Scheer, German Admiral (WW I), dies at 65 1928 Death Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies 1928 Death Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist, dies at 60 1928 Birthday Stefan Wewerka, German architect/sculptor 1928 Event German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey 1928 Death Klabund, Alfred Henschke, German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37 1928 Death Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85 1928 Death Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53 1928 Event Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind 1928 Birthday Peter Hacks, German playwright, Tie Windloch 1927 Birthday Dieter Noll, born in Riesa, Germany, writer, wrote two-volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt, over two million copies sold, volume one used as East German school curriculum 1927 Death Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies 1927 Birthday Oskar Pastior, born in Sibiu, Romania, poet, writer, translator, studied German at University of Bucharest, translated Romanian literature into German, among other works by Tudor Arghezi, Tristan Tzara, Gellu Naum, Urmuz 1927 Birthday Gunther Grass, German Author 1927 Death Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61 1927 Birthday Kurt Masur, German actor, Hotel Deutschland 1927 Birthday Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 1967 1927 Birthday Joseph Ratzinger, German theologist/dogmaticus 1927 Birthday Pope Benedict XVI, German Clergyman 1927 Event Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA 1927 Birthday Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels 1927 Birthday Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs, FDP 1927 Birthday Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer, painter and sculptor 1927 Birthday Jakov Lind, German/British author, Counting My Footsteps 1927 Birthday Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist 1927 Event 4th German government of Marx forms 1927 Death Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71 1926 Event German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army 1926 Event Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together) 1926 Birthday Hans Otte, German composer/pianist 1926 Event German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes 1926 Death Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80 1926 Event French and German trade agreement signed 1926 Event German government of Marx takes power 1926 Event German government of Luther falls 1926 Event German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands 1926 Death Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74 1926 Birthday Siegfried Lenz, German writer, Ein Kriegsende 1926 Event German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership 1926 Event 2nd German government of Luther begins 1925 Birthday Hildegard Knef, German Actress 1925 Death Karl Abraham, German Psychologist 1925 Event German government of Luther falls 1925 Event German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno 1925 Event KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy 1925 Event Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD 1925 Event German NSDAP form SS 1925 Birthday Dieter Wellershoff, German author, Minotaur 1925 Event Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno 1925 Birthday Giselher W. Kleber, German, opera, composer, Die Rauber 1925 Death Felix Klein, German mathematician (Riemannsche Flachen), dies at 76 1925 Birthday Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet, Capricorn 1925 Death Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 1925 Death Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies at 70 1925 Birthday Fritz Behrendt, German/Dutch cartoon character, The Slogan 1925 Event German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France 1925 Event Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP 1925 Death Oskar Brefeld, German botanist, dies at 85 1925 Event German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption 1924 Death Franz X. Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74 1924 Event German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis and Communists lose) 1924 Death Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71 1924 Event Allies stop checking on German navy 1924 Event German Republic day accepts Dawes plan 1924 Event Conference about German recovery payments opens in London 1924 Event Conference over German recovery payments begins in London 1924 Birthday Rainer Barzel, German leader, CDU-CSU, minister 1924 Event German government of Marx resigns 1924 Birthday Theo Olof, German/Netherlands violinist, prodigy, concert master 1924 Event German Republic election fascists and communists win 1924 Event German Republic day 1924 Event German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed 1924 Birthday Gunter Haese, German sculptor/graphic artist, Guggenheim prize 1967 1924 Death Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89 1923 Event German - U.S friendship treaty signed 1923 Death Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Moon Atlas), dies at 83 1923 Event German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD 1923 Event Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death 1923 Event German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany 1923 Event Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon 1923 Event League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German) 1923 Event German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 1923 Death Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], German composer, dies at 80 1923 Death Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73 1923 Death Adolf Oberlander, German painter, dies 1923 Birthday Horst Tapper, German director/actor, Derrick 1923 Death Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies 1923 Event KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies 1923 Event German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP 1923 Birthday Morschi Mirando, Thomas Weiss, German/Dutch gypsy artist 1923 Event German Republic day with laws against worker 1923 Event Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5% 1923 Event German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily 1923 Death Max Nordau, Sudfeld, German physician/zionists leader, dies at 73 1923 Birthday Markus Wolf, German Public Servant 1922 Birthday Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist, Boy With a Rat 1922 Event Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government 1922 Event German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth term ends 1922 Event Allies deliberate over German mark 1922 Event German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 1922 Birthday Wolfhart U Pannenberg, German theologist, Gingham Girl 1922 Death Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 64 1922 Event President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem 1922 Death Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57 1922 Death Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54 1922 Birthday Paul Schalluck, German writer, Don Quixote in Cologne 1922 Event German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich 1922 Death Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63 1922 Death Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79 1922 Birthday Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot, downed 352 Russian aircrafts 1922 Birthday German Germanovich Galinin, composer 1922 Birthday Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician 1922 Death Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36 1922 Event Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended 1922 Event Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments 1921 Birthday Hans Ulrich Engelmann, German composer, Ophelia 1921 Death Matthias Erzberger, German Minister of Finance, murdered at 45 1921 Death Heinrich E Albers-Schonberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56 1921 Death Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies 1921 Event Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria 1921 Death Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies 1921 Death Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73 1921 Birthday Charles Gaupp, German/Dutch painter 1921 Death Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69 1920 Birthday Rita Streich, German singer 1920 Birthday Paul Celan, Antschell, German/Romanian poet, Collected Prose 1920 Birthday Helmut Newton, German Photographer 1920 Death Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82 1920 Birthday Georg Leber, German politician, SPD 1920 Death Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher, dies 1920 Death Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63 1920 Death Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies 1920 Birthday Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, Klimbim 1920 Birthday Richard von Weizsaecker, German Politician 1920 Death Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90 1920 Event Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD) 1920 Event France occupies (German) Memel territory 1920 Death Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered 1919 Death Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 1919 Death Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies 1919 Death Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85 1919 Birthday Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president 1919 Death Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies 1919 Birthday Hans Bender, German poet 1919 Event Bauer forms German government 1919 Event German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet 1919 Event German government of Scheideman resigns 1919 Event Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German SW Africa to South Africa 1919 Death Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies 1919 Event German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria 1919 Death Friedrich W. Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81 1919 Death Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79 1919 Event 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed 1919 Event National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party 1918 Event 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die 1918 Event German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland 1918 Birthday Ernst Fischer, German chemist, Nobel 1973 1918 Event Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I 1918 Death Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies 1918 Birthday Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician 1918 Death Eduard earl van Keyserling, German writer (Fruhlingsopfer), dies at 63 1918 Birthday Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter, Die Weisse Rose 1918 Death Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51) 1918 Event German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) 1918 Death Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies 1918 Death Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator 1918 Event Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane) 1918 Event Crepy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed 1918 Birthday Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer, Soldiers 1918 Event S. Potter becomes 1st U.S. pilot to shoot down a German seaplane 1918 Death [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53 1918 Death Julius Wellhausen, German Educator 1918 Death Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72 1917 Birthday Tiny Rowland, Roland Fuhrop, German/British owner, Observer 1917 Event 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines) 1917 Event Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army 1917 Death Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris 1917 Event French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft 1917 Event 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes 1917 Event German troops over run Riga Latvia 1917 Death JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies 1917 Event British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades 1917 Death Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79 1917 Event After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor 1917 Event 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London 1917 Event Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks 1917 Event German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram) 1917 Event German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships 1917 Event U.S. liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed 1917 Birthday Wieland Wagner, German opera director 1916 Birthday Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer, Mozart biog 1916 Event German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest 1916 Event 1st (German) air attack on London 1916 Event Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa 1916 Event German troops conquer Kavalla Greece 1916 Event General Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff 1916 Event Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff 1916 Event German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey 1916 Death Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70 1916 Event Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines 1916 Death Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67 1916 Death Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed 1916 Event German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux 1916 Event German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun 1916 Event U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker 1916 Event U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft 1916 Death Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies 1916 Death Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43 1916 Event German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes 1916 Event Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa 1916 Event German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare 1916 Event German troops overtake Bois de Caillette 1916 Event Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun 1916 Death Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36 1916 Event German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun 1916 Death J. W. Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies 1916 Event 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place 1916 Event German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain and France 1916 Death Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73 1916 Event German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun 1915 Death Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51 1915 Event Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 1915 Death Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Kufer, German writer (Tarub), dies at 52 1915 Death Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84 1915 Event Battle at Loos: 8,246 British and 0 German casualties 1915 Birthday Rudolf Schock, German opera/operette singer 1915 Event German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia 1915 Event German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana 1915 Event British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 1915 Event German troops over run Warsaw 1915 Death Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68 1915 Event British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa 1915 Event German offensive in Argonnes 1915 Death Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies 1915 Event British and French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon 1915 Death Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle 1915 Event German and French fight Battle of Artois 1915 Event Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost 1915 Event German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland 1915 Event German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom 1915 Event German submarine sinks U.S. ship Gulflight 1915 Event German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea 1915 Birthday Hans Namuth, German/U.S. photographer, Todos Santos, Guatemala 1915 Event German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile 1915 Birthday Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author, Das Spiegellabyrinth 1915 Event 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army 1915 Event Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal 1915 Event 1st German poison gas attack, against Russians 1915 Event German submarine attack on Le Havre 1915 Birthday C. W. Ceram, Kurt W Marek, German/US writer, March of Archaeology 1915 Event 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die 1914 Event German plane drops bombs on Dover England 1914 Death Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87 1914 Event British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea 1914 Birthday Karl Carstens, German, CDU, President Germany, 1979-84 1914 Event British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island 1914 Event German troops over run Lodz 1914 Event Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing 1914 Event Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war 1914 Event Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea 1914 Event Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat 1914 Event German troops occupy Brug 1914 Event German troops occupy Gent 1914 Event German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I) 1914 Event German troops take Antwerp in World War I 1914 Event German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I) 1914 Event 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die 1914 Event General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1914 Event South African troops land in German South West Africa 1914 Event German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn 1914 Event German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches 1914 Event Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved) 1914 Event General von Moltke ceases German advance in France 1914 Death Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58 1914 Event German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia 1914 Event 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed 1914 Event 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles 1914 Event Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed 1914 Event 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau 1914 Death John Weiss, German new testament, dies 1914 Event Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army 1914 Event Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium 1914 Event German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die 1914 Event German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan 1914 Event German troops occupy Namur Belgium 1914 Event German troops plunder Belgium 1914 Death Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks 1914 Event 1st encounter between British and German troops (in Belgium) 1914 Event German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium 1914 Event Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines 1914 Event Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s 1914 Event German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp 1914 Event German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad 1914 Event German fleet bombs English coast 1914 Event German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught 1914 Event Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs 1914 Event German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured 1914 Event German army occupies forts at Luik 1914 Event German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik 1914 Event At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany 1914 Event German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas 1914 Event German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser 1914 Event British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece 1914 Event German army occupies city of Liege Belgium 1914 Event German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed 1914 Event Massive German assault on forts around Luik 1914 Event Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium 1914 Event German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice 1914 Event German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast 1914 Event Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina 1914 Event Belgian government receives German ultimatum 1914 Event German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg 1914 Event German troops overthrows Luxembourg 1914 Event Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I 1914 Event German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize 1914 Event French troops withdraw 10 km from German border 1914 Event German chief of staff/General von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium 1914 Event Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" 1914 Death Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82 1914 Death Julius Rodenberg, Levy, German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies 1914 Death Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58 1914 Death Christian Morgenstern, German Poet 1914 Birthday Alfred Andersch, German writer, Red Head 1914 Birthday Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum 1913 Birthday Willy Brandt, Herbert Frahm, German chancellor, 1969 - 1974, Nobel 1971 1913 Birthday German Leont'yevich Zhukovsky, composer 1913 Death Henry Potonie, German paleo-botanist/geologist (sapropelium), dies 1913 Death Rudolf Diesel, German Inventor 1913 Death Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55 1913 Birthday Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist, Anne Frank 1913 Birthday Hans Filbinger, German politician, CDU 1913 Death F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies 1913 Birthday Fritz Erler, German politician, SDP 1913 Birthday Wolfgang Schulze, Wols, German cartoonist/painter 1913 Event German passenger ship Imperator runs aground 1913 Birthday Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician 1913 Death Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at 68 1913 Birthday Stefan Heym, German/U.S. author, Crusaders, Family Benda 1913 Birthday Martha Modl, German singer/soprano, Wagner 1913 Death August Bebel, German Politician 1913 Death Eberhard Nestle, German biblical scholar, dies at 61 1912 Death Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60 1912 Birthday Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist, Sociology of Sex 1912 Birthday Emil Schumacher, German painter, Tangible Objects 1912 Birthday Carl F von Weiszacker, German physicist/philosopher 1912 Birthday Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer 1912 Birthday Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate 1912 Death Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70 1912 Birthday Wernher von Braun, German Scientist 1912 Birthday Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director, Max-Planck-institute 1912 Death Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76 1912 Birthday Heinz Kuhn, German premier, North-Rhine Westphalia 1912 Birthday Juan Pujol Garcia, Garbo/Arabel, Spanish British/German double agent 1912 Birthday Stefan Schnabel, German actor, Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox 1912 Birthday Rudolf Hagelstange, German author and poet, Spielball der Gotter 1912 Death Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant and Epigones), dies at 71 1911 Birthday Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy 1911 Birthday Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister 1911 Death Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das grosse Duden Lexicon), dies 1911 Event Hungarian education is only taught in German 1911 Event German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco 1911 Birthday Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy 1911 Birthday Georg Meistermann, born in German, glass, painter, Raumplanen 1911 Birthday Karl O. Schiller, German economist, Minister of Economics 1911 Death Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies 1910 Death Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, dies at 79 1910 Death Thaddaus Robl, German bicyclist (world record), dies 1910 Birthday Gerhard Schroder, German minister of Defense 1910 Death Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70 1910 Death Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies 1910 Birthday Hans Gunther Adler, German writer 1910 Birthday Konrad Zuse, German Inventor 1910 Death Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies 1910 Event German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms 1910 Birthday Jurgen Rausch, German philosopher/author, End of the Playboys 1910 Birthday Joeri German, Russian writer 1910 Death Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79 1910 Death Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94 1910 Birthday Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, German singer and actress, Der Pott 1910 Death Eduard FW Pfluger, German physiologist, dies at 80 1910 Birthday Robert H. G. Havemann, German chemist 1910 Birthday Irmgard Keun, West German writer, Das kunstseidene Madchen 1910 Birthday Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter, WW II 1910 Death Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44 1910 Birthday Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician 1909 Birthday Ferdinand H Aus der Funten, German war criminal, Breda 4 1909 Death Theodor W. Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81 1909 Birthday Bernd Rosemeyer, German auto racer, Indy 500 1909 Birthday Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London 1909 Birthday Hermann Bengtson, German historian, Greeks Ancient Times 1909 Death Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65 1909 Birthday Carsten Nicolai, German Artist 1909 Death Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies 1909 Death Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies 1909 Birthday Golo Mann, Gottfried, German and U.S. historian, Antisemitism 1909 Death Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73 1909 Death Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83 1909 Death Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63 1908 Birthday Hans Werner Richter, German author, Socially Responsible Cinema 1908 Birthday Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist 1908 Birthday Edzard H Schaper, German/Swiss sailor/UP-correspondent/antifascist 1908 Birthday Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist 1908 Birthday Franz J A Grothe, German composer 1908 Birthday Gerd Gaiser, German writer, Ship in the Mountain 1908 Birthday Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal, 4 of Breda 1908 Birthday Peter Anders, German opera singer 1908 Birthday Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS Fuhrer, Mussolini/Horthy 1908 Death Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45 1908 Birthday Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist, penicillin, Nobel 1945 1908 Birthday Joseph Keilberth, German conductor, Bayreuther Festspiele 1908 Birthday Helmut Kautner, German director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick 1908 Birthday Albrecht Goes, born in Germany, pastor with the German army, writer, novelist, BBC Television in the United Kingdom adapted Unruhige Nacht in 1950, his novel, translated in English as 'Arrow to the Heart' 1907 Death Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58 1907 Event German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam 1907 Birthday Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier 1907 Birthday Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader 1907 Birthday Helmut Walcha, German organist, church music 1907 Death Joseph Joachim, German violinist and composer, dies at 76 1907 Birthday Mascha Kaleko, born in Chrzanow, Austria, now Poland, writer, German language poet, first book 'Lyrisches Stenogrammheft' was burned in Nazi book burnings, wrote advertising copy while living in New York 1907 Birthday Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician, Frame 1907 Birthday Helmuth J. von Moltke, German politician, July 20th plot 1907 Birthday Gunter Eich, German literary, Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo 1906 Birthday Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe 1906 Event German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament 1906 Birthday Willy Ley, German Writer 1906 Birthday Eduard Ludwig, German architect, Air Bridge monument Berlin 1906 Birthday Klaus Mann, German/US author, Mephisto, son of Thomas Mann 1906 Birthday Wolfgang Staudte, German director, Die Morder sind unter uns 1906 Birthday Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist, Nobel 1969 1906 Birthday Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician, CDU 1906 Birthday Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist 1906 Birthday Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician, SPD 1906 Death Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34 1906 Death Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50 1906 Birthday Max Zorn, German mathematician, lemma of Zorn 1906 Death Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56 1906 Event GB Shaws German version of "Caesar and Cleopatra," premieres in Berlin" 1906 Death Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67 1906 Death Moriz Heyne, German germanist (German Worterbuch), dies at 68 1906 Birthday Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist, Confessing Church 1905 Birthday Eugen Fink, German philosopher 1905 Birthday Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann 1905 Birthday Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent 1905 Birthday Ruth Bernhard, German Photographer 1905 Death Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies 1905 Event Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken 1905 Death Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64 1905 Event Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa 1905 Event Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa 1905 Death Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 1905 Event Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa 1905 Event Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa 1905 Event Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa 1905 Death Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51 1905 Death Hermann von Wissmann, German African explorer and Governor East-Africa, dies 1905 Event French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request 1905 Birthday Winfried P I Zillig, German opera composer and conductor, Fantasia Irica 1905 Event German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger 1905 Birthday Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament, NSDAP 1905 Death Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77 1905 Death Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64 1905 Birthday Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher 1904 Event German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children 1904 Birthday Hans Hartung, German/French painter 1904 Death Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies 1904 Birthday Werner Forssman, German urologist, Nobel 1956 1904 Death Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59 1904 Death Eduard Hanslick, German Writer 1904 Birthday Ernst Mayr, German Scientist 1904 Birthday Kurt Kusenberg, German writer, Wein Auf Lebenszeit 1904 Birthday Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister 1904 Event German Lieutenant-general Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa 1904 Death Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67 1904 Death Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist, Siemens, dies 1904 Death Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77 1904 Event Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army 1904 Birthday Kurt G. Kiesinger, German chancellor, Wherever They May Be 1904 Birthday Reinhard Heydrich, German governor, Bohemen/Moravia, Lidice, 1904 Birthday Karl Rahner, German Theologian 1904 Event Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison 1904 Death Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64 1903 Death Albert Schaffle, German sociologist, dies at 72 1903 Birthday Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer 1903 Death Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies 1903 Birthday Carl Rakosi, German Poet 1903 Death [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies 1903 Birthday Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist 1903 Birthday Gunther AR Raphael, German composer, Symphony Breve 1903 Birthday Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist, Nobel 1939 1903 Birthday Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British, opera, composer, Beatrice Cenci 1903 Birthday Boris Blacher, born in Newchwang, China, German composer, Orchester-Ornament 1902 Death Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68 1902 Birthday Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian 1902 Birthday Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor, Hamburg Orchestra 1902 Birthday Ernst von Salomon, German writer, Kette Der Tausend Kraniche 1902 Death Mathilde Wesendonk, German author and poet, dies at 73 1902 Birthday Gunther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer 1902 Birthday Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel 1950 1902 Birthday Gerhard Pohl, German writer, Crazy Ferdinand 1902 Death Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68 1902 Birthday Hans Sahl, German/U.S. writer 1902 Birthday Heinrich Kirchner, German sculptor 1902 Birthday Zarah Leander, Swedish and German singer and actress, Gabriela 1902 Death John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54 1902 Birthday Heinz Ruehmann, German actor and director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick 1902 Birthday Rudolf Moralt, German conductor, Vienna Philharmonic 1902 Birthday Max Kommerell, German literary/author, Die Gefangenen 1902 Birthday Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author, Das Klavichord 1902 Death J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies 1902 Birthday Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist 1902 Birthday Heinrich Schmist-Barrien, German author, Moorkeerl 1902 Birthday Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreography, Silent Song 1901 Birthday Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32 1901 Death Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62 1901 Birthday Walter Hallstein, West German politician, CDU, Hallstein doctrine 1901 Birthday Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar, Deuteronomium 1901 Birthday Bernard von Brentano, German writer, Big Cats 1901 Birthday Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam 1901 Birthday Ernst Pepping, German composer 1901 Death Hermann Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies 1901 Birthday Erich Ollenhauer, German politician, SPD 1901 Death Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69 1901 Birthday Walter E. Schafer, German playwright 1901 Death Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64 1901 Death Bernhard Erdmannsdorffer, German historian (Mirabeau), dies at 68 1901 Birthday Willy Fritsch, German actor, Spies, Women in the Moon 1900 Birthday Oda Schaefer, German author and poet, Die Windharfe, Ladies Only 1900 Event A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles 1900 Birthday Anna Seghers, Netty Radvanyi-Reiling, German author, 7th Cross 1900 Death Max Muller, German Educator 1900 Birthday Oscar Nitzchke, German architect, Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou 1900 Death Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher 1900 Death Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 1900 Birthday Arno Breker, German sculptor, 3rd Reich sculptor 1900 Event 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks, New Jersey, 326 die 1900 Event German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power 1900 Birthday Hans Frank, German Public Servant 1900 Birthday Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress, Metropolis, Mutter Courage 1900 Birthday Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer and conductor, Hassan gewinnt 1900 Death Mihaly von Munkacsy, Michael von Lieb, German painter, dies at 56 1900 Birthday Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist 1900 Birthday Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher 1900 Birthday Hermann Kesten, German writer, Allert de Lange 1899 Event English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up 1899 Event Tentative Turkish and German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway 1899 Birthday Leo Strauss, German Philosopher 1899 Birthday Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer, Rose, Black King 1899 Birthday Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist, Church und Welt 1899 Birthday Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian, Spanish Diary 1899 Death Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 1899 Birthday Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist 1899 Birthday Erich Kastner, Dresden German author, Emil and the Detective 1899 Death Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67 1899 Birthday Fritz Bayerlein, German Lieutenant-General, WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo 1898 Death Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78 1898 Death Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83 1898 Birthday Martin David, German/Netherlands law historian 1898 Birthday Hanns Eisler, German/U.S. composer/East German minister for propaganda 1898 Death Otto von Bismarck, German Leader 1898 Birthday Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer 1898 Death Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist, dies at 70 1898 Birthday Edwin E. Dwinger, German writer, General Vlassov 1898 Birthday Hans Ehrke, German writer and poet, Narrenspiegel, Fuer 1898 Birthday Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer 1898 Birthday Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist 1898 Birthday Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist, Understanding 1897 Birthday Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat/politician 1897 Death Antonius von der Linde, Netherlands/German librarian, dies at 63 1897 Birthday Otto, von, Struve, German/U.S. dir, Yerkes/MacDonald observatory 1897 Birthday Franz J Weinrich, Heinrich Lerse, German writer, Himmlisches 1897 Birthday Karl von Mechow, German writer, Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer 1897 Death Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies 1897 Birthday Winifred Wagner-William, German organizer, Wagner Festival 1897 Birthday Paul Alverdes, German writer, Pfeiferstube 1897 Birthday Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist 1897 Birthday Herbert Eimert, German composer and musicologist, Glockenspiel 1897 Death Johannes Brahms, German composer and conductor, 'Hungarian Dances', dies at 63 1897 Birthday Carlo Mierendorff, German politician and anti-fascist 1897 Death Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81 1897 Birthday Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer, Lady Fanny, Bel Ami 1896 Birthday Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/U.S. playwright 1896 Death Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75 1896 Death Ernst Engel, German Economist 1896 Death Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies 1896 Birthday Hermann Kasack, German writer, Die Stadt hinter dem Strom 1896 Death Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81 1896 Death Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia), dies 1896 Death Clara Schumann, German Musician 1896 Death Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies 1896 Death Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Victoria, dies at 37 1896 Event German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays 1895 Birthday Hermann Schey, German/Netherlands singer 1895 Birthday Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer 1895 Birthday Alfred Neumann, German playwright, Devil 1895 Birthday Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman, SPD, 1895 Birthday Richard Sorge, German spy for U.S.S.R. in Tokyo, WW II 1895 Birthday Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP 1895 Death Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58 1895 Death Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies 1895 Death Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies 1895 Death Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 1895 Birthday Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian, Laudes regiae 1895 Birthday Ernest Junger, German philosopher, Anschwellender Bocksgesang 1895 Birthday Fritz Usinger, German writer, Eternal Struggle 1895 Birthday Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, Studies in prejudice 1894 Birthday Earnest Haenchen, German new testament expert 1894 Event German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg 1894 Birthday Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor 1894 Event German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg 1894 Birthday Heinrich Lubke, West German president, 1959-69 1894 Death Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist 1894 Death August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 1894 Death Klara Fey, German orchestra leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 1894 Birthday Hans Guido von Bulow, German conductor 1894 Birthday Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher 1893 Death Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80 1893 Birthday Erwin Piscator, German stage director, Der Stellvertreter 1893 Birthday Julius Bissier, German painter 1893 Death Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68 1893 Birthday Willi Apel, German/U.S. musicologist, Harvard dictionary of music 1893 Birthday Heinrich George, Schulz, German actor, Hitlerjunge Quex 1893 Birthday Hans H B Scharoun, German architect, Berlin Philharmonic 1893 Birthday George Grosz, German painter, Gott mit uns 1893 Birthday Albert Mahl, German writer, Hart vull Drift 1893 Birthday W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer, Andromeda 1893 Death Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 1893 Birthday Joachim von Ribbentrop, German SS fuhrer/foreign minister 1893 Event Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi 1893 Birthday Karl Mannheim, Hungarian/German/British sociologist, Ideology and Utopia 1893 Birthday Friedrich Blume, German musicologist, Das Rassenproblem in der Musik 1892 Death E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75 1892 Birthday Erich Auerbach, born in Berlin, Germany, German writer and educator 1892 Birthday Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer, Night Watch 1892 Birthday Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter 1892 Death Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52 1892 Birthday Anton Schnack, German writer/poet 1892 Birthday Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer 1892 Birthday Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader 1892 Birthday Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, Red Baron, German WW I ace 1892 Birthday Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator 1892 Birthday Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, Rassenkunde 1892 Birthday Erwin Panofsky, German and U.S. art historian 1892 Death Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 1892 Birthday Theodor Plievier, German writer, Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad 1892 Birthday Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister, Organization Todt 1892 Birthday Martin Niemoller, clergyman, German Protestant, ; imprisoned by Hitler 1891 Death Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 1891 Birthday Otto Dix, German Artist 1891 Birthday Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal, WW II-African campaign 1891 Birthday Charlotte "Lotte" Bartschart, German/Dutch operetta singer 1891 Birthday Edith Stein, German philosopher 1891 Birthday Karl Donitz, German great admiral/Fuhrer, 1945 1891 Birthday Hans Albers, German actor, Die Nacht Gehort Uns 1891 Birthday Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist 1891 Birthday Rudolf Carnap, philosopher, German Logical Positivist 1891 Birthday Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag 1891 Birthday Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist, Urchristentum 1891 Birthday Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor 1891 Birthday Walter Model, German Field Marshal 1891 Birthday Walter Eucken, German economist 1891 Birthday Walther Bothe, German Physicist 1890 Death Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86 1890 Birthday Klabund, Alfred Henschke, German writer, Bracke, Borgia 1890 Birthday Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet, Love Letters 1890 Birthday Kasimir Edschmid, German writer 1890 Birthday Friedrich von Paul, German General-Field Marshal, Netherlands 1890 Birthday Hanns Johst, German Playwright 1890 Birthday Kurt Edzard, German sculptor, nudes/portraits 1890 Birthday Kurt Student, German Soldier 1890 Birthday Alfred Jodl, German Soldier 1890 Event German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck 1890 Birthday Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher 1890 Birthday Robert Ley, German chemist/MP, NSDAP 1890 Birthday Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist, Deutsche Namenkunde 1890 Birthday Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and writer, Panther Tiger and Co 1890 Birthday Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff 1889 Birthday Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer, Soldier Suhren 1889 Birthday Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glazer 1889 Birthday Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music 1889 Birthday Fritz Kunkel, German physicians, Angewandte Characterize 1889 Death Ernst Franck, German composer and conductor, dies at 42 1889 Event 6 U.S. and German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die 1889 Birthday Guido Kisch, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. historian, Jews in medieval Germany 1888 Death Carl Zeiss, German Scientist 1888 Birthday Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist, Die Oden Salomons 1888 Birthday Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor 1888 Death Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies 1888 Birthday Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter 1888 Death Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53 1888 Birthday Carl Schmitt, German nazi-lawyer, Verfassungslehre 1888 Death Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70 1888 Death John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45 1888 Birthday Heinz Guderian, German Soldier 1888 Death Frederik III NK van Hohenzollern, German Emperor/king of Prussia, dies 1888 Birthday Leo Weismantel, German writer, Der Reiter der Apocalypse 1888 Birthday Josef Albers, German/U.S. graphic artist/painter/writer, Bauhaus 1888 Birthday Friedrich Schnack, German journalist and writer, Rosewood 1888 Birthday Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist, Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943 1888 Birthday Paul Althaus, German theologist, The Christian Truth 1888 Birthday Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor, 1st rocket-powered aircraft 1888 Birthday Richard Courant, German/U.S. mathematician, What is mathematics? 1887 Birthday Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA 1887 Death Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86 1887 Death Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80 1887 Birthday Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author, Erziehung vor Verdun 1887 Death Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 1887 Birthday Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter 1887 Death Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher and writer (Auch einer), dies 1887 Birthday Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar 1887 Birthday Friedrich Lubke, German politician 1887 Birthday Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist, Nobel 1925 1887 Death August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies 1887 Birthday Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher, Rowohlt-Verlag 1887 Birthday Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet, collages 1887 Birthday Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian, Vorwarts 1887 Birthday Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor 1887 Death August W. Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47 1887 Birthday Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstangl, German/US pianist/politician, NSDAP 1887 Birthday Wolfgang Kohler, German/U.S. Gestalt psychologist, Mentality of Apes 1887 Birthday Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence 1886 Birthday Hermann A. J. Kees, German Egyptologist, Problems of Egyptology 1886 Birthday Paul Tillich, German/U.S. theologist, Die sozial Entscheidung 1886 Death Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45 1886 Death Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61 1886 Birthday Erich Salomon, German photographer 1886 Birthday Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate 1886 Birthday Ernst R. Curtius, German literature historian 1886 Death Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60 1886 Birthday Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/U.S. architect, Bauhaus 1886 Death Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91 1886 Birthday Max Vasmer, German slavic, La Tertulia de Pombo 1886 Birthday Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti 1886 Birthday Theodor Werner, German painter 1886 Birthday Kurt Baschwitz, German/Dutch sociologist/journalist, Du und 1885 Birthday Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer, The General 1885 Birthday Albrecht, von, Kesselring, German Field Marshal, Poland/Netherland 1885 Birthday Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician 1885 Birthday Walter Anderson, German Writer 1885 Event 5 German warships depart to Zanzibar 1885 Birthday Karen Horney, German/US, neo-freudian psychoanalyst 1885 Birthday Berthold Altaner, German church historian, Patrologie 1885 Event Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle 1885 Birthday Werner Elert, German luthers theologist 1885 Birthday Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist, Wife and society 1885 Birthday Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1885 Death Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65 1885 Event 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar 1885 Birthday Emil Bloch, German philosopher 1885 Death Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73 1885 Event German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland 1885 Death Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist, composer and conductor, dies at 73 1885 Death Franz W. Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies 1885 Death Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65 1885 Birthday Veit Valentin, German/US historian, Deutsche Revolution 1885 Event Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society 1885 Birthday Julius Streicher, German district leader, Sturmer 1885 Birthday Eduard Kunneke, German composer, Vetter aus Dingsda 1885 Birthday A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress, Eline Vere, L'aiglon 1884 Event German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Birthday Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist, benzine from brown coal, Nobel 1884 Birthday Lion Feuchtwanger, German philosopher and writer, Jud Suss 1884 Event German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon 1884 Birthday Franz Halder, German Soldier 1884 Death Heinrich R Goppert, German paleo-botanist, dies 1884 Birthday Oskar Loerke, German writer, Longest Day-1926 1884 Birthday Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist 1883 Death Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies 1883 Birthday Albrecht G Alt, German theologist, Der Gott der Vater 1883 Birthday Martin Dibelius, German theologist, Die Lade Jahwes 1883 Birthday Rene "Sascha" Schickele, German writer/founder, Sturmer 1883 Birthday Johann Blaskowitz, German general 1883 Birthday Martin Albertz, German theologist, Church Jesus Christ 1883 Death Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 1883 Birthday Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist, eidetism 1883 Birthday Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist, John-Apokalyps 1883 Death Richard Wagner, German composer (Die Walkure), dies at 69 in Venice 1883 Death Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at 70 1883 Birthday Hermann Abendroth, German conductor 1882 Birthday Walther Meissner, German physicist, Meissner effect 1882 Birthday Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer 1882 Birthday Will Vesper, German author, Vom grossen Krieg 1882 Birthday Gunther von Kluge, German Field Marshal 1882 Birthday Wilhelm Keitel, German Field Marshal 1882 Birthday James Franck, German naturalist, Nobel 1925 1882 Birthday Franz MT de Liage Bohl, German/Dutch assyrologist/translator 1882 Birthday Leonard Nelson, German philosopher, Democracy und Fuhrerschaft 1882 Birthday Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator 1882 Death Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60 1882 Death Johann CF Zollner, German astronomer (astro photography), dies 1882 Death Bruno Bauer, German Theologian 1882 Birthday Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor, 12/2/32-1/28/33 1882 Event German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB 1882 Birthday Walter Lucht, German artillery general, WW I/WW II 1881 Birthday Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist, The Bridge 1881 Birthday Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, July 20th plot 1881 Birthday [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German Field Marshal 1881 Birthday Paul L E von Kleist, German general-Field Marshal, Eastern Front 1881 Birthday Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930 1881 Birthday Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist, radiologist 1881 Birthday Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer, Quadriga, Pumpernickel 1881 Birthday George KFW von Kuchler, German Field Marshal, Invasion Netherlands 1881 Birthday Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer 1881 Birthday Hans Windisch, German new testament expert 1881 Birthday Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer, Dr. Eisenbart 1881 Death Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 1881 Birthday Armin Knab, German composer, Eichendorff-cycle 1881 Birthday Otto Selz, German psychologist 1881 Birthday Emil Ludwig, German biographer, Diana, Son of Man 1881 Birthday Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter, poet and sculptor, Seated Youth 1880 Birthday Alfred Einstein, German/U.S. musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein 1880 Birthday Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist, continental shift 1880 Death Jacques Offenbach, German/French composer (La belle Helene), dies at 61 1880 Birthday Paul Fechter, German writer, Der Zauberer Gottes 1880 Birthday Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher and writer 1880 Death Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80 1880 Birthday Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop, Confessional Church 1880 Birthday Ernst L. Kirchner, German painter, Die Brucke 1880 Birthday Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet, Tantum dic verbo 1880 Birthday Konrad Weiss, Dutch German writer/poet, Tantum dic verbo 1880 Birthday Hans Hofmann, German/U.S. painter, Search for the Real 1880 Birthday Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist 1880 Birthday Franz Marc, German painter, Blaue Reiter 1880 Death Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies 1879 Birthday Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian/German choreographer, modern dance 1879 Birthday Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor, Bauhaus, 1879 Birthday Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, Prince Regent 1879 Birthday Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor, 1932 1879 Birthday Franz von Papen, German Politician 1879 Birthday Joseph Wirth, German politician, Stalin Peace Prize 1879 Birthday Fritz Schulz, German law historian, Classical Novel Law 1879 Birthday Theodor Haecker, German cultural philosopher, ist der Mensch? 1879 Birthday Richard Scheibe, German sculptor, Adler mit Hakenkreuz 1879 Birthday Joseph Haas, German, opera, composer, Tobias Wunderlich 1879 Death Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60 1879 Birthday Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium 1878 Birthday Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice 1878 Birthday Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, China, WW II 1878 Birthday Hermann Claudius, German folk poet, Meister Bertram 1878 Event German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism" 1878 Birthday Karl Albiker, German sculptor, German Art, female nudes 1878 Birthday Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr 1878 Birthday Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm 1878 Event German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election 1878 Birthday Jean F van Royen, Dutch German secretary, PTT 1878 Event German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed 1878 Birthday Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor, 1923, Nobel 1926 1878 Birthday Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist 1878 Birthday Richard B. Goldschmidt, German and U.S. zoologist 1878 Birthday Carl Sternheim, German playwright, Hyperion/Tabula Rasa 1878 Death Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist 1878 Birthday Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist, Ich und Du 1878 Birthday Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer, Der Juxbaron 1878 Birthday Robert Garbe, German poet, Gorniek 1877 Birthday Thaddaus Robl, German bicylist, world record 1877 Birthday Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance 1877 Birthday Karl Erb, German tenor 1877 Death Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65 1877 Birthday Herman Hesse, German Author 1877 Birthday Heinrich Wieland, German chemist, bile acids-Nobel 1927 1877 Birthday Karl Abraham, German Psychologist 1877 Birthday Arnold Schering, German musicologist, Humor, Heldentum, Tragik 1877 Birthday Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1877 Birthday Else Berg, German/Dutch painter 1877 Birthday Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs, 1929-.. 1877 Birthday Max Ettlinger, German philosopher 1877 Birthday Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics 1876 Birthday Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist, Beethoven-Archiv 1876 Death Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84 1876 Birthday August Sander, German Photographer 1876 Death Ida von Duringsfeld, German writer (Schelde bis zur Mas), dies at 60 1876 Birthday Karl B Adam, German theologist, Christ our Brother 1876 Birthday Theodor Daubler, German writer, Northern Lights 1876 Birthday Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor, 1922-23 1876 Death Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81 1876 Death Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69 1876 Birthday Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist 1876 Birthday Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter 1876 Birthday Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60 1875 Birthday Karl R G von Rundstedt, German General-Field Marshal, Normandy 1875 Birthday Gerd von Rundstedt, German Soldier 1875 Birthday Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist 1875 Birthday Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor, Porsche, Volkswagen 1875 Death Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49 1875 Death Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66 1875 Birthday Ernst F. Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon 1875 Death Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer (Peregrina), dies at 70 1875 Event German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed 1875 Birthday Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian 1875 Birthday Walter Andrae, German archaeologist, Babylon, Assur 1875 Birthday Annette Kolb, German/French author, Small Fanfare 1875 Birthday John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist, Der Wille 1874 Birthday Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist, Die antike Kunst 1874 Birthday Paul Wegener, German actor and director, Student of Prag 1874 Death Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49 1874 Birthday Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi, Encyclopedia Judaica 1874 Birthday Karl Bosch, German chemist, BASF, Nobel 1931 1874 Birthday Max Scheler, German philosopher, Vom Umsturz der Werte 1874 Birthday Karl Kraus, born in Austria, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture 1874 Death David F Strauss, German theologist, dies at 66 1874 Death David Friedrich Strauss, German Theologian 1874 Birthday Robert Liefmann, German economist, Unternehmersverbande 1873 Birthday Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer, Schwarzschild effect 1873 Death Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies 1873 Event German troops leave France 1873 Event Last German troops leave France 1873 Birthday Paul Keller, German writer, Ferien vom Ich 1873 Death Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92 1873 Birthday Hans Berger, German Scientist 1873 Birthday Otto zur Linde, German author, Charon 1873 Death Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69 1873 Birthday Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist 1873 Birthday Jakob Wassermann, born in Germany, novelist, My Life as German and Jew 1873 Birthday Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German Secretary of State, 1932 - 1938 1873 Birthday Karl Straube, German organist/conductor 1872 Birthday Ludwig Klages, German philosopher, study of graves 1872 Death Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68 1872 Birthday Albert Steinruck, German actor, Golem 1872 Birthday Otto Braun, German Politician 1871 Death Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73 1871 Birthday Narziss Ach, German psychologist, Analyse des Willens 1871 Birthday Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert, examined syphilis 1871 Birthday Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist, Sparta Party 1871 Birthday Christian Morgenstern, German Poet 1871 Birthday Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher, Intelligence of Children 1871 Birthday Leo Blech, born in Aachen, Rhenish Prussia, studied with Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer 1871 Event German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions 1871 Event 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck 1871 Birthday Paul Guthnick, German astronomer 1870 Birthday Friedrich Panzer, German germanist, Das Nibelungenlied 1870 Birthday Gustav Krupp, German Businessman 1870 Birthday Gustav Landauer, German socialist 1870 Birthday Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter 1870 Birthday Wilhelm Normann, German chemist, hardening of oils 1869 Birthday Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist, Homer 1869 Birthday Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher, Theory of the Dialects 1869 Birthday Rudolf Otto, German Theologian 1869 Death Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies 1869 Birthday Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer and conductor 1869 Birthday Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer, Daud un Duwel 1869 Birthday Max Hoffmann, German Soldier 1868 Birthday Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist, Nobel 1919 1868 Birthday Paul Hirsch, German Politician 1868 Birthday Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German general, China 1868 Birthday Max Slevogt, German painter 1868 Death Christian Schonbein, German chemist, dies at about 69 1868 Birthday Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist 1868 Death Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies 1868 Birthday Max Von Schillings, German composer and conductor, Der Pfeifertag 1868 Event 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem" 1868 Birthday Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist 1868 Birthday Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist, Anthropos 1868 Birthday Wilhelm Schafer, German writer, Ein Totschlager 1868 Birthday Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist 1867 Birthday Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, Silesia, German architect, Wiener Sezession 1867 Birthday Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer, Legenden Der Zeit 1867 Birthday Emil Nolde, Hansen, German painter/graphic artist 1867 Birthday Max Dauthendy, German painter/author, Ewige Hochzeit 1867 Birthday Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor, Oct-Nov 1918 1867 Birthday Max Friedlander, German art historian, Altniederlandische Malerei 1867 Birthday Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria, 1918-19 1867 Birthday Theodor Zockler, German theologist, Stanislauer Anstalten 1867 Birthday Siegfried Passarge, German geographer, Cameroon, South Africa,America 1867 Birthday August W. Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist 1867 Birthday Gerhard Anschutz, German MP 1866 Birthday Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French abstract painter, Dreamy Inspiration 1866 Birthday Paul Lincke, German composer and conductor /publisher, Frau Luna 1866 Death Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies 1866 Death G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies 1866 Birthday Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist 1866 Event German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt 1866 Birthday Hans von Seeckt, German general, Future of the Reich 1866 Birthday Karl T Sapper, German geography/geologist, Vulkankunde 1865 Death Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies 1865 Birthday Walther Amelung, German archaeologist 1865 Birthday Friedrich Lienhard, German writer, Lieder eines Elsassers 1865 Birthday Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian 1865 Death Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73 1865 Birthday Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament, SPD, mayor of Kassel 1865 Birthday Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist, Remarkable Stories 1865 Birthday Alfred Hugenberg, German RC president-director of Krupp/media magnate 1865 Birthday Heinrich Rubens, German physicist 1865 Death Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 1865 Birthday Otto Modersohn, German painter 1865 Birthday Friedrich Paschen, German physicist 1865 Birthday Heinrich E Albers-Schonberg, German rontgenologist 1864 Birthday Arthur Zimmermann, German Statesman 1864 Birthday B[enjamin] Frank[lin] Wedekind, German writer, Lulu 1864 Birthday Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician 1864 Birthday Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, Ancient Judaism 1864 Birthday Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist and composer, Golem 1864 Birthday Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and politician 1864 Birthday John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author and poet, Anarchists 1864 Death Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59 1864 Death Anton Schindler, German violinist and biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68 1864 Birthday Wilhelm K. W. Wien, German phyicist, Nobel 1911 1863 Birthday Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar 1863 Death Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51 1863 Birthday Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist 1863 Birthday Reinhard Scheer, German Admiral, WW I 1863 Birthday Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer 1863 Birthday Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary 1863 Birthday Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist, El Papiamento 1863 Birthday Eduard David, German undersecretary, constitution of Weimar 1863 Birthday Georg Adler, German state economist 1863 Birthday Franz von Stuck, German painter, Der Krieg 1863 Birthday Werner Sombart, German fascist, Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben 1863 Birthday Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian 1863 Birthday Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Kufer, German writer, The Seasnake 1862 Birthday Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer 1862 Event Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor 1862 Death Henry Bohlen, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies in battle at 51 1862 Birthday Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist 1862 Death Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81 1862 Death F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73 1862 Death Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 1862 Birthday Edward German, Jones, Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer 1861 Birthday Friedrich Engel, German mathematician, group theory 1861 Birthday Erich Schaeder, German theologist, Theocentric Theology 1861 Birthday Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer 1861 Death Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82 1861 Birthday Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author, Im Kampf um Gott 1861 Birthday Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist 1861 Birthday Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer, Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf 1860 Death Ferdinand Christian Baur, German Theologian 1860 Death Heinrich Florida Rellstab, German music theorist, dies 1860 Death Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher 1860 Birthday Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter 1860 Birthday Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter 1860 Birthday Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer, Nipkow Award 1860 Birthday Johannes Walter, German geologist, Denudation of the Wilderness 1860 Death Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet 1859 Death Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist and composer (Faust), dies at 75 1859 Birthday Georg Knorr, German engineer, brake system trains 1859 Death Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57 1859 Death W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68 1859 Death Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53 1859 Death John Emde, German evangelist, dies at about 84 1859 Birthday Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor, 1888-1918 1859 Birthday Karl Bleibtreu, German author, Revolution of Literature 1858 Death Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author, poet and diplomat, dies at 73 1858 Birthday Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria 1858 Birthday Ludwig Wullner, German actor/baritone, Die Burgschaft, Prometheus 1858 Birthday Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist 1858 Birthday Wolfgang Kapp, German politician, Kapp Putsch 1920 1858 Death Johannes P. Muller, German Scientist 1858 Birthday Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918 1858 Death Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87 1858 Birthday Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927 1858 Birthday Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, Diesel motor 1858 Birthday Georg Simmel, German philosopher and sociologist 1858 Death Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian, dies at 86 1858 Birthday Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist, Cheerful Blatter, Simplicissimus 1857 Death Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80 1857 Death Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69 1857 Birthday Henry Potonie, German paleo-botanist/geologist, sapropelium 1857 Birthday Conrad Haebler, German historian, Early printers of Spain/Portugal 1857 Birthday Hermann Sudermann, German writer, Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge 1857 Death M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77 1857 Birthday Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist 1857 Birthday Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor 1857 Birthday Otto von Below, German commandant, WW I 1856 Birthday Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia 1856 Birthday Friedrich Kustner, German astronomer 1856 Death Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46 1856 Death Max Stirner, German Philosopher 1856 Death Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76 1856 Death Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris 1856 Birthday Otto Brahm, German critic/founder, Neue Deutsche Rundschau 1855 Birthday Heinrich Hart, German writer, Song of Humanity 1855 Birthday Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist 1855 Birthday Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist 1855 Birthday Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist 1855 Birthday Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist 1855 Birthday Johann P Zilcher, German composer 1855 Birthday Eduard earl of Keyserling, German writer, Dritte Stiege 1855 Birthday Ernst L Wolzogen, German writer/founder, Cabaret oberbrettl 1855 Birthday Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey, WW I 1854 Birthday Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist 1854 Death Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies 1854 Birthday Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist, Grammar of Ancient Egypt 1854 Birthday Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Netherlands manufacturer, Vroom and Dreesman 1854 Death Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79 1854 Death Friedrich von Schelling, German Philosopher 1854 Birthday Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator, Theory of Education 1854 Death Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72 1854 Death Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80 1854 Birthday Friedrich A. Krupp, German arms manufacturer 1853 Birthday Isolde Kurz, German writer/poet, Meine Mutter 1853 Birthday Clemens Baeumker, German historian, Patristischen Philosophie 1853 Birthday Hermann von Wissmann, German Africa explorer/governor East-Africa 1853 Birthday Adolf Furtwangler, German archaeologist, Antiken Gemmen 1853 Birthday Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, Psalms 1853 Death Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75 1853 Death August Kopisch, German writer (Mauseturm), dies at 53 1853 Birthday Gustav Falke, German author and poet, Der Mann im Nebel 1852 Death Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86 1852 Birthday Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher, Nietzsche Philosophy 1852 Birthday Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister 1852 Birthday [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician 1852 Birthday Theodor Birt, Beatus Rhenanus, German classical/writer 1852 Birthday Konstantin Fehrenbach, German chancellor, 1920-21 1851 Birthday Felix Adler, German Educator 1851 Birthday Eberhard Nestle, German orientalist/biblical scholar 1851 Birthday C E Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist, Netherlands Indies 1850 Death Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53 1850 Birthday Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher, Gott und Geist 1850 Death J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85 1850 Birthday Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist, New Era 1850 Birthday Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer, Mataswintha 1849 Birthday Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck 1849 Birthday Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher, skepticism 1849 Birthday Max Nordau, German arts/writer/zionist leader 1849 Death Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor, dies at 39 1849 Birthday Furst Bernhard HM von Bulow, German chancellor/Prussian PM, 1900-09 1849 Birthday Felix Klein, German mathematician, Evanston Colloquium 1849 Death Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69 1849 Birthday Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist, bath house 1848 Event German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg 1848 Birthday Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff, WW I 1848 Death Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53 1848 Birthday Helena Lange, German feminist 1848 Death Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies 1847 Birthday John Peter Altgeld, German/U.S., Gov-Ill, pardoned Haymarket-anarchists 1847 Death Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25 1847 Birthday Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor 1847 Birthday Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president 1847 Birthday Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier 1847 Event German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf 1847 Birthday Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter 1847 Death George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61 1847 Death Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59 1847 Birthday Karl von Bach, German engineer, Maschinenelemente 1847 Birthday Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer, Album polonaise 1847 Birthday Ernst Franck, German composer and conductor 1847 Death Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83 1846 Death Friedrich List, German Economist 1846 Birthday Vladimir Koppen, Russian/German meteorologist 1846 Birthday Richard Kiepert, German cartographer, Africa 1846 Birthday Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, German writer, Young Nietzsche 1846 Death Friedrich W. Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61 1846 Birthday Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes 1845 Birthday Franz Ehrle, German prefect of Vatican library 1845 Birthday Adolf Oberlander, German painter 1845 Birthday Dietrich Schafer, German historian, Deutsche Hanse 1845 Death August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77 1845 Death August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet 1845 Death August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48 1845 Birthday Georg Cantor, German mathematician, discover transfinite numbers 1845 Birthday Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright, Sedan 1845 Birthday Paul Deusen, German philosopher, Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft 1844 Birthday Lujo Brentano, German economist 1844 Birthday Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer, 4-taktmotor 1844 Birthday Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer, Lebensraum 1844 Birthday Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer, Von Tieren und Menschen 1844 Birthday Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet 1844 Birthday Julius Wellhausen, German Educator 1844 Birthday Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist, Angiospermen 1844 Birthday Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/Governor-General of Belgium, 1914-17 1843 Birthday Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, TB, cholera, Nobel 1905 1843 Death Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies 1843 Death Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88 1843 Death Johann C F Holderlin, German poet, dies at 73 1843 Birthday Ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist 1843 Birthday Horst Koehler, German Statesman 1842 Birthday Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, schedelmetingen 1842 Birthday John H Zuckertort, German chess player 1842 Birthday Heinrich I Quincke, German internist, Lumbaalpunctie 1842 Birthday Carl PG von Linde, German engineer/physicist, Linde-procede 1842 Birthday Carl A. N. Rosa, German violinist and composer 1842 Birthday Karl May, German writer, Old Shatterhand/Winnetou 1841 Death Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60 1841 Death Johann F Herbart, German philosopher (General Padagogik), dies at 65 1841 Death Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73 1841 Death Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies 1841 Death Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76 1841 Birthday Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter 1841 Birthday Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian 1841 Death J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55 1840 Birthday Ernest Debes, German cartographer, Baedeker 1840 Death Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist 1840 Birthday Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, Magister choralis 1840 Birthday Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer/governor, Equatoria 1840 Death Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets and asteroids), dies at 81 1840 Birthday Otto Liebmann, German philosopher, Climax of Theories 1840 Birthday F August Bebel, German social-democrat 1840 Birthday August Bebel, German Politician 1839 Birthday August A Kundt, German physicist, sound vibration, test of Kundt 1839 Birthday Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist, Libya 1839 Death Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60 1839 Birthday Oskar Brefeld, German botanist 1839 Birthday Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic, Der Herr im Hause 1839 Birthday August W. Eichler, German botanist 1838 Birthday Emil Rathenau, German industrialist, AEG 1838 Death Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet 1838 Birthday Eugen Richter, German parliament member, Liberal 1838 Birthday Gustav von Schmoller, German economist, Lectern Socialism 1838 Birthday Paul Laband, German lawyer 1837 Birthday Friedrich W. Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter 1837 Birthday Moriz Heyne, German germanist, Beowulf 1837 Birthday Adam Opel, German manufacturer, cycling, motorcars 1837 Birthday Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, die graue Eminenz 1837 Death Georg Buchner, German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23 1836 Birthday Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist and politician 1835 Birthday Adolf Stoecker, German anti semite/PM 1835 Event German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens 1835 Death Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48 1835 Birthday J. F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel 1905 1835 Death Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator 1835 Birthday Matthias J. Scheeben, German theologist, Natur und Gnade 1835 Birthday Richard Andree, German geography/etnologist, Andree's Handatlas 1834 Birthday Georg H Quincke, German physicist, test of Quincke 1834 Birthday Johann C F Zollner, German astronoom, astro photo meter 1834 Birthday Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member 1834 Birthday Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis 1834 Death Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65 1834 Event German Tolunie goes into effect 1833 Death Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21 1833 Birthday Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer, harmonica 1833 Birthday Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher, Das Leben Schleiermans 1833 Birthday Antonius von der Linde, Netherlands/German librarian/chess player 1833 Birthday Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist 1833 Birthday Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer 1833 Death Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61 1833 Birthday Bernhard Erdmannsdorffer, German, historian, Deutsche Geschichte 1832 Birthday Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher 1832 Birthday Nikolaus A. Otto, German technician, gas motor, otto motor 1832 Birthday Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, Neumann-functions 1832 Death Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet 1832 Death Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45 1832 Birthday Franz Melde, German phyicist, Melde test 1831 Birthday Alexander Conze, German archaeologist 1831 Death Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher 1831 Birthday Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia 1831 Birthday Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, Der Hungerpastor 1831 Birthday Julius Rodenberg, Levy, German writer, Kriegs-Songs of War and Peace 1831 Death Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies 1831 Death Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74 1831 Birthday Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia 1831 Death Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79 1831 Birthday Friedrich C. K. von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, Home Mission 1831 Birthday Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia 1830 Birthday Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor 1830 Birthday Rudolf Cornely, German bible expert/jesuit 1830 Birthday Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher 1830 Death Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker, dies at 59 1829 Event German 1st assassination on abandoned teenager Kaspar Hauser 1829 Birthday Anselm Feuerbach, German painter 1829 Birthday Moritz B Cantor, German math historian 1829 Birthday Eduard F. W. Pfluger, German physiologist, Breathing Quotient 1829 Birthday Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert 1829 Death Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56 1829 Birthday Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer, Tarimbekken 1829 Birthday Konrad Duden, German linguist, Der grosse Duden 1828 Birthday Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist, katatonie 1828 Birthday Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet, Tagebuchblatter 1828 Death Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70 1828 Birthday Theodor W. Ahlwardt, German orientalist 1828 Birthday Johannes von Miquel, German politician 1828 Birthday Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist 1827 Death Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies 1827 Birthday Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer 1827 Death Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 1827 Birthday Oswald Aschenbach, German painter 1826 Birthday Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist 1826 Death Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66 1826 Birthday G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician, zeta-function 1826 Death Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39 1826 Birthday Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor 1826 Birthday Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP, social-democratic 1826 Birthday Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography, Volkerkunder 1826 Birthday Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist and composer 1826 Death J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59 1826 Birthday Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer, Gaudeamus 1825 Birthday Eduard Hanslick, German Writer 1825 Birthday Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian 1825 Birthday Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist, decodes characters 1825 Birthday Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist, Erlenemyer kolf 1825 Death Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82 1825 Birthday Joseph Albert, German photographer, albertotype 1824 Birthday Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician 1824 Death Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49 1823 Birthday Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, Tensor of Kronecker 1823 Birthday Max Muller, German Educator 1823 Birthday Max Mueller, German Writer 1823 Birthday Karl Weinhold, German sociologist 1823 Death Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36 1822 Death F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85 1822 Death Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46 1822 Death Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83 1822 Birthday Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet 1822 Birthday Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician, stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease 1822 Death Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72 1822 Birthday Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist, Rigveda's Hymns 1822 Birthday Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist, Troje 1821 Death Andreas J Romberg, German violinist and composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54 1821 Birthday Rudolf Virchow, German politician/antropologist, cell pathology 1821 Birthday Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist 1821 Death Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1821 Birthday Earnest Angel, German statistician, Law of Angel 1821 Birthday Ernst Engel, German Economist 1820 Birthday Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher 1820 Birthday Georg Curtius, German classical linguist 1820 Death Joseph F. Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 1820 Birthday Hermann von Lingg, German playwright and poet 1819 Birthday Theodor Fontane, German writer, Effi Briest 1819 Birthday Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor 1819 Birthday Clara Schumann, German Musician 1818 Death Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72 1818 Birthday Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer 1818 Death Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22 1818 Birthday Otto Ludwig, German writer, Die Heiterethei 1817 Death Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34 1817 Birthday Hermann Kopp, German chemist, Jahresbericht of Chemistry 1817 Birthday Theodor Storm, German judge/author, Imense China 1817 Death Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist 1817 Death Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73 1816 Birthday E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor 1816 Birthday Carl Zeiss, German Scientist 1816 Birthday Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher, T Edition 1815 Birthday Ida von Duringsfeld, German author, Vd Schelde bis zur Mas 1815 Birthday Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver 1815 Event 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation 1815 Birthday Klara Fey, German orchestra leader, Deutscher Arbeiterverein 1814 Birthday Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist 1814 Birthday Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian 1814 Death Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre), dies at 51 1813 Birthday Hermann Kurz, German author and poet 1813 Event German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished 1813 Birthday Georg Buchner, German playwright, Dantons Tod/Woyzeck 1813 Death Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21 1813 Birthday Johann Czerski, German chaplin 1813 Death Christoph Martin Wieland, German Poet 1812 Death Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German Businessman 1812 Death Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist, dies at 82 1812 Death Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23 1812 Birthday Hermann von Fehling, German chemist, Fehling's reagens 1812 Birthday Johann G Galle, German astronomer, discovered Neptune. 1812 Birthday Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe 1812 Birthday Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant 1812 Death Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35 1812 Birthday Hermann Hirschboch, German composer 1812 Birthday Berthold Auerbach, German author, Schwarzwalder Dorfgeschichten 1811 Birthday Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz 1811 Death Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 1811 Birthday Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/ composer and conductor 1811 Birthday Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician 1811 Death Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69 1810 Birthday Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory 1810 Death Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77 1810 Birthday Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician 1809 Death Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author, dies at 46 1809 Birthday Bruno Bauer, German Theologian 1809 Birthday Albert Schaffle, German sociologist, Abriss der Soziologie 1808 Birthday Karl [Theodor] Andree, German geographer/journalist, Globus 1808 Birthday Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer 1808 Death Jacob Albright, Albrecht, German / U.S. preacher, dies at 49 1808 Birthday David Friedrich Strauss, German Theologian 1807 Death Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 1807 Birthday Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher and writer, Auch einer 1807 Birthday Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer, Der Alchemist 1807 Death August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 1806 Birthday Max Stirner, Johann C Schmidt, German philosopher, Der Einzige 1806 Death Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74 1805 Death Georg W. "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, dies at 76 1804 Birthday Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer, Maler Nolten 1804 Birthday Ludwig A. Feuerbach, German philosopher, Man is what he eats 1804 Death Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79 1803 Death Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 1803 Birthday Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, agricultural chemics 1803 Death Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78 1803 Event 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states 1802 Birthday August F Pott, German philologist, Etymology Forschungen 1802 Birthday Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet, Faust, Die Albigenser 1802 Death Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist, dies at 77 1802 Death Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60 1801 Death Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60 1801 Birthday Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist, Plucker formulas 1801 Birthday Johannes P. Muller, German Scientist 1801 Birthday Gustav T Fechner, Dr. Mises, German philosopher/physicist 1801 Death Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28 1801 Death Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian 1800 Birthday Heinrich R Goppert, German paleo-botanist 1800 Death Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53 1800 Birthday Karl W. Feuerbach, German mathematician, Position of Feuerbach 1799 Birthday Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician 1799 Birthday August Kopisch, German writer, Die Heinzelmannchen von Koln 1799 Birthday Heinrich F L Rellstab, German music theorist 1799 Birthday Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist, Ziekte van Basedow 1799 Birthday Johann von Dollinger, German Old Catholic theologian/historian 1799 Death Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56 1798 Birthday Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist 1798 Birthday Willibald Alexis, Georg W. Haring, German writer, Schloss Avalon 1798 Death Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24 1798 Death Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 1798 Birthday Karl von Staudt, German math professor, projective geometrician 1798 Death Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66 1797 Birthday Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor, 1871-88 1797 Birthday William I, Berlin, King of Prussia, 1861-88, German Emperor, 1871-88 1796 Death Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75 1796 Birthday August Pauly, German classicus, Real Encyclopedia 1795 Birthday Carl P Fohr, German painter 1795 Birthday Friedrich [August] von Alberti, German geologist, Triasic Age 1795 Birthday Adolf B. Marx, German music theorist 1795 Birthday Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist 1795 Birthday Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist, Chinoline 1794 Birthday Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant 1794 Birthday Leopold Zunz, German scientist, Synagogical Poetry 1794 Birthday Eberhard F. Walcker, German organ builder, Paulskirche Frankfurt 1793 Death Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author 1792 Birthday Ferdinand Christian Baur, German Theologian 1792 Birthday Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist 1791 Birthday Johann F Encke, German astronomer, Encke Comet 1791 Birthday Karl T Korner, German poet, Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt 1791 Birthday W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist 1790 Death Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies 1790 Death Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies 1789 Birthday Friedrich List, German Economist 1789 Birthday Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher 1788 Death Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 1788 Birthday F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter, Modern Vasari 1788 Birthday Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist 1788 Birthday Franz Pforr, German painter and cartoonist, Lukasbund 1788 Birthday Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet, Das Marmorbild 1788 Birthday Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer 1787 Birthday Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist 1787 Death Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 1787 Birthday Louis Angely, German, comedy writer, Sieben Madchen in Uniform 1786 Birthday Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst "von" Weber, German composer, Freischutz 1786 Birthday Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer 1786 Death Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 1785 Birthday George F Kersting, German painter 1785 Birthday Bettina von Arnim, German writer, This Book Belongs to the King 1785 Birthday J. H. Ferdinand Olivier, German painter 1785 Birthday Karl A. Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author, Die Sterner 1784 Birthday Friedrich W. Bessel, German astronomer, star parallax, Bessel Function 1784 Death Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies 1784 Death Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies 1784 Birthday Franz KL von Klenze, German architect, Hermitage, St-Petersburg 1783 Birthday Max von Schenkendorf, German poet 1783 Death Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62 1783 Death Magnus G Lichtwer, German writer (esopischer Fabeln), dies at 64 1782 Birthday Friedrich W. A. Frobel, German educator, founded kindergarten 1782 Death Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 1781 Birthday Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian 1781 Birthday Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian 1781 Birthday Karl F. Schinkel, German architect, painter and writer, Schloss Tegel 1781 Death Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany 1781 Birthday Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet 1781 Birthday Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet, Des Knaben Wunderhorn 1780 Birthday August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway 1780 Birthday Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, Nibelungenlied 1780 Birthday Wilhelm M L de Wette, German exegetist/theologist 1780 Birthday M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist 1779 Death Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51 1779 Birthday Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer 1777 Birthday Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat 1777 Death Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71 1777 Birthday Christian D Rauch, German sculptor 1776 Birthday Gottlieb Schick, German painter, Apollo under the Hirten 1776 Death Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67 1776 Death Jacob Israel Emden, Jacob ben Tswi, German rabbi, dies at 78 1776 Birthday Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, Undine 1775 Birthday Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist, Hermenianen 1774 Death Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50 1774 Death Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54 1774 Birthday Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet 1774 Birthday Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist 1773 Death Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78 1773 Birthday Jakob F Fries, German philosopher 1773 Birthday Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer, Fantasies about Art 1773 Death Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76 1773 Birthday Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist 1772 Birthday Novalis, born in Oberwiederstedt, Germany, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night' 1772 Death Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52 1771 Death Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61 1771 Birthday Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author 1771 Death Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Bremer Beitrage), dies at 56 1771 Birthday Georg F. Creuzer, German philological/historian, Idea und Probe 1771 Birthday Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher 1771 Death Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies 1770 Death Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80 1770 Birthday Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker 1770 Death Bernard S Albinus, Weiss, German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73 1770 Death Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62 1770 Birthday Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor, dialectic 1769 Birthday Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet 1769 Death Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71 1768 Birthday Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher 1768 Death Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50 1768 Death Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies 1767 Birthday Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster 1767 Birthday August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet 1767 Birthday August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic 1767 Death Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86 1767 Birthday Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator 1767 Birthday Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist and composer, Song of the Clock 1766 Birthday J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist 1766 Death Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81 1766 Birthday Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king 1766 Birthday Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic 1766 Birthday Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king Willem I 1765 Death Frans I Stefanus, RC German emperor (1745-65), dies at 56 1765 Birthday Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist 1764 Death Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies 1764 Death Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82 1764 Birthday J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer 1764 Death Picander, Christian Henrici, German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies 1764 Death Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82 1763 Birthday Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author 1763 Birthday Caroline von Wolzogen, von Lengefeld, German author 1762 Death Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies 1762 Birthday Johann G Fichte German philosopher, Wissenschaftslehre 1761 Birthday Charlotte von Kalb, German writer 1761 Birthday Friedrich von Matthison, German poet, Adelaide 1760 Death Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Schaferfest), dies at 63 1760 Birthday Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect 1759 Death Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 1759 Death Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 1759 Death Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39 1759 Birthday Jacob Albright, Albrecht, German and U.S. predictor 1759 Birthday Friedrich A. Wolfius, Wolf, German philological, Prolegomena 1758 Birthday Franz Joseph Gall, German and French physician, frenology 1758 Death Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78 1758 Death Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 1757 Event German Diet declares war on Prussia 1756 Death Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies 1756 Birthday Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author 1756 Birthday Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl 1756 Death Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29 1755 Death Johann Georg Pisendel, German violist/composer, dies at 76 1755 Death Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies 1755 Birthday Samuel Hahnemann, German physician and originator of homeopathy 1754 Death Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75 1753 Birthday August G Meissner, German author 1753 Death [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66 1753 Birthday Franz K Achard, German physicist 1752 Birthday Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright, Wirrwarr 1750 Death Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65 1750 Death Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German composer, dies at 68 1748 Death Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55 1748 Death Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer/musicologist, dies at 63 1748 Birthday Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor /tutor of Beethoven 1747 Death Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63 1747 Birthday Johann A P Schulz, German composer 1747 Birthday Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, Moon has Risen 1746 Birthday Joachim H Campe, German author, Robinson of the Jungere 1746 Birthday Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic 1745 Event Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus 1745 Death Charles VII Albert, German emperor (1742-45), dies at 47 1744 Birthday Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet 1744 Death Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28 1743 Birthday Martin H Klaproth, German chemist, uranium 1742 Birthday Gebhard Leberecht Furst Blucher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal 1742 Birthday Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor 1742 Birthday Georg C. Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, types of Lichtenberg 1742 Event German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor 1741 Birthday Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian 1741 Birthday Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, Siberia/Krim 1741 Birthday Johann J Angel, German author, Herr Lorenz Stark 1741 Birthday Jozef II, arch duke of Austria/RC German emperor, 1765-90 1740 Death Karl VI, German emperor (1711-40), dies 1740 Birthday Joseph F. Weigl, German/Austrian, violin cellist 1738 Birthday F William Herschel, German/English astronomer, discovered Uranus 1738 Death Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72 1736 Birthday Johann H Schepp, German/Netherlands engraver 1736 Birthday Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician 1733 Birthday Christoph Martin Wieland, German Poet 1733 Death Georg Bohm, German organist/composer, dies at 71 1733 Birthday Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized 1732 Birthday Johann C Adelung, German linguist/librarian 1731 Birthday Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master 1731 Birthday Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright, Olint und Sophronia 1729 Birthday Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist 1729 Birthday Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher, Haksalah 1729 Death Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64 1729 Birthday Georg W. "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, Annales typographic 1729 Birthday Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, born in Kamenz, Germany, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature 1728 Birthday Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter 1728 Death Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73 1728 Birthday Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia, 1761-62 1727 Death George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67 1725 Birthday Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet, Geistliche Kantaten 1724 Birthday Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist 1724 Birthday Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet 1724 Death Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), dies at 77 1723 Birthday Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer 1723 Birthday Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother 1722 Death Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70 1722 Death Johann Adam Reincken, German organist/composer, dies at 99 1722 Death Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies 1721 Death Rudolph J Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies 1721 Death Bernhard Albinus, Weiss, German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies 1721 Birthday Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised 1720 Birthday Johann P Uz, German poet, Lyrische Poem 1720 Birthday Johann Friedrich Agricola, German, court, composer/organist 1719 Birthday Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistician/economist 1719 Event Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire 1719 Death Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52 1719 Birthday Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik 1719 Birthday Magnus G Lichtwer, German writer, esopischer Fabeln 1718 Death Jacob F Muller, Sjako/Jaco, German/Netherlands crowd leader, beheaded at 28 1717 Birthday Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, History of Ancient Art 1717 Birthday Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer 1717 Event German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam 1716 Death Gottfried W. Leibniz, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 70 1716 Death Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher 1716 Death Engelbrecht Kampfer, German/Netherlands VOC-surgeon, dies at 65 1715 Death George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73 1715 Birthday Immanuel J Pyra, German poet, Temple of Real Poetry 1715 Birthday Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet, Der Fruhling 1714 Birthday Gottlieb W. Rabener, German author, Vom Misbrauch of the Satire 1714 Death Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80 1714 Birthday Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach 1712 Birthday Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter 1712 Birthday Georg F Schmidt, German engraver/etcher 1711 Death Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies 1710 Birthday Konrad E Ackermann, German actor, Die Oberpfalz 1709 Death Oxenstiern, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Death Spaar, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Event 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC 1709 Birthday Johann H H Butz, German/Dutch organ builder 1708 Death Christian Weise, German writer (That Bose Catherine), dies 1708 Birthday Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer 1708 Birthday Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet, Versuch einiger Poem 1708 Birthday Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist 1707 Event German composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach 1707 Death Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74 1707 Death Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69 1706 Death Johann Pachelbel, German organist/composer, dies at 52 1706 Birthday Josef Christian, German sculptor 1704 Event French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany 1704 Death Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50 1703 Death Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies 1702 Death Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies 1701 Death Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80 1701 Birthday Johann N von Hontheim, German church historian/suffragan, bishop 1700 Birthday Nikolaus L earl von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, German evangelist 1700 Birthday Picander, Christian F Henrici, German writer, Der Sauffer 1699 Birthday Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect, Sanssouci 1697 Birthday Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet, wrote in blood 1697 Birthday Jacob Israel Emden, Jacob ben Tswi, German rabbi 1697 Birthday Friederike C Neuber, German actress and author, Allerkostbarste Schatz 1697 Birthday Bernard S Albinus, Weiss, German surgeon/anatomist 1697 Birthday Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer 1695 Birthday Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect 1694 Death Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62 1693 Death Johann Kaspar von Kerll, German composer, dies at 65 1692 Death Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief (Colors), dies 1692 Death Christoph Bernhard, German composer, dies at 64 1692 Birthday Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon, Insel Felsenburg 1690 Birthday Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, Goldbach position 1689 Death Philipp von Zesen, German poet (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70 1689 Event German Parliament declares war on France 1688 Event France declares war on German 1688 Death Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70 1687 Birthday Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer 1687 Birthday [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized 1686 Death Mathias Rauchmuller, German sculptor (Piasten mausoleum Poland), dies 1685 Birthday Charles VI, German emperor/king of Spain, 1711-40 1685 Birthday Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, Liebfrauenkirche 1684 Birthday Johann J Dillenius, Dillen, German botanist, Historia Muscorum 1683 Birthday Johann Christoph Graupner, German composer 1682 Birthday Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine and composer 1680 Death Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies 1680 Birthday Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker 1679 Birthday Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer 1679 Event German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France 1679 Birthday Christian von Wolff, German philosopher 1678 Birthday Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor, 1705-11 1677 Death Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies 1676 Death Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64 1676 Death Paulus Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63 1674 Event German Parliament declares war on France 1674 Death Johann Paul Schor, German barok painter, dies at 58 1672 Death Heinrich Schutz, German composer (Weihnachtsoratorium), dies at 87 1671 Event French King Louis XIV and RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty 1669 Death John Coccejus, German/Netherlands reformed theologist, dies at about 66 1667 Birthday Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer/Luthers pietist 1667 Death Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50 1667 Death Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 1666 Birthday Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter 1666 Death Benedictus Carpzovius, Benedikt Carpzov, German lawyer, dies 1666 Death Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies 1666 Death Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32 1666 Birthday Georg Baehr, German master builder, Frauenkirche, Dresden 1665 Birthday Benjamin Neukirch, German poet, Herrn von Hofmannswaldau 1665 Birthday Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician, sexuality plant 1664 Death Andreas Gryphius, German writer, poet, dramatist, master of philosophy, works include historical tragedy 'Leo Armenius', dies at age 47 1662 Death Leonhart Kern, German sculptor, dies at about 73 1662 Death Johann Cruger, German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63 1661 Death Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet/historian/vicar, dies 1661 Birthday Georg Bohm, German organist/composer 1660 Birthday Peter Schenck, German/Netherlands engraver/publisher, baptised 1660 Death Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54 1660 Birthday Georg Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/King George I of Gt Britain 1659 Death Simon Dach, German poet, dies 1657 Death Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48 1656 Birthday Johannes Schenck, German/Netherlands composer, baptised 1654 Death Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67 1654 Death Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 1653 Event German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria 1652 Birthday Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans 1651 Death Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47 1651 Birthday Engelbrecht Kampfer, German/Netherlands VOC surgeon 1650 Death Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74 1646 Birthday Johann Theile, German composer, Adam and Eve 1646 Birthday Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher 1646 Death Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72 1644 Birthday Abraham a Santa Clara, Johann Megerle, German court vicar 1642 Birthday George Hickes, English linguistic, Old German Philology 1642 Birthday Christian Weise, German writer, Niederlandische Bauer 1639 Death Martin Opitz, German poet and historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 1638 Death Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50 1638 Death Johannes Althusius, Althaut, German lawyer, dies at about 81 1637 Death Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hun/German Emperor (1619-37), dies at 58 1635 Death Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies at 50 1634 Event Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat 1634 Event Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants 1634 Event Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants 1634 Death Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50 1634 Birthday Adam Krieger, German composer 1633 Birthday Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/Wolfenbuttel/poet 1633 Event Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn 1632 Birthday Kaspar von Stieler, German poet, Teutsche Wolredner 1632 Birthday Samuel, Freiherr von Pufendorf, German jurist 1631 Event German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg 1630 Death Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44 1630 Death Johann Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58 1630 Death Johannes Kepler, German Scientist 1630 Event Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament 1628 Death Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63 1628 Birthday Christoph Bernhard, German composer 1625 Event Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander 1624 Birthday Angelus Silesius, Johann Scheffler, German mystic, St. Seelenlust 1624 Death Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown) 1621 Death Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50 1620 Death Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59 1620 Birthday Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief 1619 Birthday Philipp von Zesen, German poet and historian, Amsterdam 1617 Birthday Johann A. Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist 1617 Death David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53 1616 Birthday Andreas Gryphius, born in Glogow, Silesia, German writer, poet, dramatist, master of philosophy, works include historical tragedy 'Leo Armenius' 1616 Death Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies 1616 Birthday Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer 1615 Birthday Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter 1615 Death Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies 1612 Birthday Paul Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander 1612 Birthday Justus G. Schottel, Schottelius, German poet 1610 Death Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32 1610 Birthday Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet and historian 1610 Event German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610 1609 Event Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League 1608 Birthday Ferdinand III, King of Hungary/Bohemia/German Emperor, 1637 - 1657 1607 Death Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52 1605 Birthday Daniel von Czepko, German poet 1605 Birthday Simon Dach, German poet 1604 Birthday Jacob Balde, German jesuit/barok conductor, Jephthe 1602 Death Paul Melissus, Paul Schede, German poet/composer, dies at 62 1602 Birthday Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader 1601 Birthday Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor, magic lantern 1598 Death Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog), dies 1598 Birthday Johann Cruger, German organist, composer and music theorist 1597 Birthday Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" 1597 Death Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67 1597 Death Diederik Sonoy, German/Netherlands governor of Northern quarter, dies at 67 1596 Death John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 1595 Birthday Benedictus Carpzovius, Benedikt Carpzov, German lawyer 1592 Birthday Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer 1591 Event German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau 1590 Death Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61 1589 Death Philipp Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geographer, dies at 58 1588 Death Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies 1587 Birthday Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised 1586 Birthday Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer, Christenburg 1586 Death Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70 1586 Birthday Johann Hermann Schein, German composer, Fontana d'Israel 1585 Birthday Heinrich Schutz, German royal chaplain master/composer, Daphne 1584 Birthday Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, Oden und Gesange 1583 Birthday Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general 1583 Death Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48 1578 Birthday Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor, 1619-37 1578 Birthday Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized 1577 Event Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur 1576 Death Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies 1574 Death Joachim Camerarius, Liebhard Kammerer, German philologist, dies 1574 Death Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle 1573 Birthday Elias Hill, German architect/city builder, Augsburg 1571 Birthday Johannes Kepler, German Scientist 1568 Death Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27 1567 Death Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79 1567 Death Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 1566 Death John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister, dies 1566 Death Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 1565 Death Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies 1564 Death Ferdinand I, German Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61 1563 Death Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54 1562 Death Gottfried/Gotz von Berlichingen, German Knight of kingdom, dies 1561 Birthday Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician, Trigonometry 1560 Death Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, German poet (Opera omnia), dies 1560 Death Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian 1559 Death Erasmus Sarcerius, German luthers theologist, dies at about 58 1558 Event Charles V, German emperor, buried 1556 Death John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50 1556 Death Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies 1555 Birthday Johann Arndt, German Lutherian theologist 1555 Death Georg Agricola, Bauer, German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61 1554 Death Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53 1554 Death Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies 1553 Death Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 1553 Death Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 1552 Death Peter Apianus, Bennewitz/Bienewitz, German astronomer, dies at 50 1552 Birthday Jobst Burgi, Justus Byrgius, Swiss/German mathematician 1552 Event France signs secret treaty with German Protestants 1552 Death Johannes Cochlaeus, Dobeneck, German humanist/theologist, dies 1550 Death Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies 1548 Death Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44 1548 Death Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies 1547 Event Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state) 1547 Event Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg 1546 Birthday Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian 1545 Event German Parliament opens in Worms 1544 Event Peace of Crepy: German emperor Charles V and French king Francois I 1544 Event German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark 1541 Death Wolfgang Capito, Kopfel, German church reformer, dies at 63 1540 Death Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies 1540 Birthday Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg 1539 Birthday Paul Melissus, German poet/composer 1539 Event Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt 1538 Event Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg 1538 Death Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 1535 Death Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, dies at 48 1534 Birthday Joachim Camerarius, German botanist/physician, horticulture catalog 1534 Birthday Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist, Heidelberger Catechism 1534 Event Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy 1531 Birthday Philipp Apianus, Bennewitz/Bienewitz, German geography/cartographer 1531 Death Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor, dies at 71 1531 Event Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union 1530 Event German Parliament joins to Augsburg together 1529 Death John Cuspinianus, Spiessheimer, German physician, dies at about 55 1529 Death Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies 1528 Death Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56 1528 Birthday Jacob Andreae, German theologist, Schwabische Konkordie 1527 Birthday Maximilian II, German King/Emperor, 1564-76 1527 Event Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance 1526 Event German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League 1525 Death Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66 1525 Event Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau 1525 Death Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed 1525 Event German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war 1525 Event Swiss and German mercenaries desert Francois I's army 1524 Event Emperor Karel I bans German national synode 1523 Death Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 1521 Event Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France and occupy Milan 1521 Event Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V 1520 Event King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V 1519 Death Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85 1519 Death Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49 1519 Death Johann Tetzel, (German) monk, dies at about 79 1519 Event King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V 1519 Death Maximilian I of Hapsburg, German kaiser, dies 1517 Death Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies 1515 Birthday Lucas Cranach, the Younger, German painter 1514 Death Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies 1504 Birthday Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer 1503 Birthday Wilhelm von Grumbach, German Lieutenant Colonel 1503 Birthday Ferdinand I, German emperor, 1558-64 1502 Birthday Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader, Children of God 1501 Birthday Sixt, us, Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer, Suzanna 1500 Birthday Joachim Camerarius, Liebhard Kammerer, German humanist 1499 Death Neithart Fox, Jonker Fox, German passage leader, slain in battle 1499 Birthday Johannes Brenz, German theologist, Dutch Brentians 1497 Birthday Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian 1497 Birthday Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant 1496 Death Johannes de Lapide, Johan Heynlin, German philosopher, dies 1494 Birthday John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister 1493 Event Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor 1493 Death Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77 1492 Event Cheese and Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse 1491 Death Martin Schongauer, German painter, dies at 40 1490 Birthday Albrecht von Brandenburg, German archbishop/monarch of Mainz/cardinal 1488 Birthday Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot 1488 Event Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium 1488 Birthday Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet, Silvae 1486 Birthday Agrippa von Nettesheim, German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer 1486 Birthday Martin Agricola, German composer/cantor 1483 Birthday Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist 1481 Birthday Franz von Sickingen, German knight 1475 Death Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg and Eichstatt), dies at 54 1473 Death Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies 1471 Birthday George von Saksen-Meissen, German potester of Frisia 1468 Death John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies 1467 Birthday Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, German gov/viceroy of Frisia 1464 Death Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies 1459 Birthday Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria 1459 Birthday Jacob Fugger, German banker and merchant 1452 Event Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor 1440 Birthday Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian 1437 Death Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70 1437 Death Emperor Sigismund, German Statesman 1436 Event German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten 1420 Birthday Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson, Bamberg and Eichstatt 1419 Death Wenzel/Vaclav IV, Wenceslas, drunken RC German king, dies at 58 1415 Birthday Frederick III, Innsbruck Austria, German Emperor, 1440-1493 1410 Death Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies 1380 Death John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies 1378 Death Charles IV, Roman-German King/German emperor (University of Prague), dies 1368 Birthday Emperor Sigismund, German Statesman 1367 Birthday Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia 1361 Death John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61 1361 Birthday Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor, 1378-1400 1356 Event German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree 1352 Birthday Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king 1349 Death Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44 1349 Event Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king 1347 Event Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV 1346 Event Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy 1338 Event German monarch signs Treaty of Rense 1338 Event German monarch declares pope and king's decree redundant 1330 Death Frederick (III), the Handsome, duke of Austrian/German anti-king, dies 1328 Death ... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies 1313 Death Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies 1312 Event Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned 1310 Event German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia 1308 Death Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered 1307 Event German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia 1298 Event Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed 1298 Event Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf and Albrecht I 1298 Event Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king 1280 Death Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87 1256 Death Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22 1250 Death Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55 1248 Event Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor 1247 Event Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor 1242 Death Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide 1229 Event German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem 1228 Birthday Koenraad IV, Roman Catholic German king, 1237-54 1227 Event Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II 1220 Event German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights 1215 Event Frederik II (20) crowned king of German 1211 Birthday Henry VII, Roman catholic German king, 1220-35 1210 Event Pope Innocent III excommunicates German emperor Otto IV 1209 Event Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach 1208 Event Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king 1205 Event Aken, Philips van Zwaben, crowned Roman-Catholic German King 1197 Death Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies 1194 Birthday Frederick II, Iesi Italy, German Emperor, 1212-1250, King of Sicily 1190 Death Frederik I van Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa", German King, dies 1165 Event RC German emperor Frederik I Barbarossa visits Utrecht 1164 Death Elisabeth von Schonau, German mystic (Visiones), dies at about 34 1138 Event German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned 1138 Event Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king 1125 Event Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III 1125 Death Hendrik V, last Salische German king, dies 1125 Death Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies 1111 Event German King Hendry V arrives at St. Peter, Rome 1106 Death Henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54 1103 Death Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies 1099 Event Henry V crowned German king 1090 Event Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II 1087 Event German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad 1085 Death Irmgarde van Keulen, German countress of Aspel/saint, dies 1084 Event Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV 1081 Birthday Henry V, Roman German king/emperor, 1098/1111-25 1080 Death Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies 1077 Death Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies 1077 Event German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren 1077 Event Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV 1077 Event German king Henry IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness 1077 Event Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV 1077 Event German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness 1076 Event Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII 1075 Event Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen 1068 Death Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies 1064 Event German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland 1056 Death Henry III, RC German King (1039-56), dies 1046 Event Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI, 1037 Event German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis" 1028 Event German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king 1027 Event John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor 1024 Event Duke Koenraad II chosen German king 1024 Event Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king 1024 Death Henry II, the Monk, German King (1002-24), dies 1017 Birthday Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor, 1046 - 1056 1014 Event Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor 1002 Event German king Henry II the Saint crowned 1002 Death Otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21 999 Death Adelheid the Saint, German empress of Otto I/saint, dies at about 68 999 Death Gregory V, Bruno, 1st German Pope, dies 996 Event Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas 996 Event Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor 991 Death Theophano, German Empress/wife of Emperor Otto II, dies 983 Death Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28 975 Birthday Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler 973 Birthday Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor, 1002/14-24 967 Event John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor 962 Event Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor 961 Event German King Otto II crowned 955 Event Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians 936 Event German king Otto I the Great, crowned 936 Death Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36)/duke of Saxon 912-36, dies 933 Event Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren 918 Death Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies 918 Death Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies 918 Death Koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18), dies at 42 912 Birthday Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman emperor, 962-73 911 Event Conrad I elecect German King 911 Event Duke Koenraad I chosen German king 911 Death Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies 882 Death Louis II/III the Younger, German king (876-82), dies 876 Death Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies 870 Event Kings Charles the Bare and Louis the German divide Lutherans 865 Death Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies 860 Event Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II 843 Event Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divide France 842 Event Charles II and Louis the German sign treaty 814 Death Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 532 Death Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies 493 Death Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies 482 Death Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies 476 Event German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
