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