2015 Event Over 6,000 Syrian migrants arrive in Austria after being detained in Hungary in an effort to control the recent mass wave of refugees fleeing Syria and other war-torn nations; many of the migrants plan to seek asylum in Austria and Germany 2015 Event Ukraine and Russia negotiate a ceasefire with the support of Germany and France; the agreement calls for an end to fighting, removal of large artillery from the sites of conflict, and greater independence for eastern Ukraine 2014 Event Germany commemorates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall with a balloon-release ceremony and celebrations throughout the country; the wall had been built through Berlin to separate communist East Germany from West Germany 2014 Event Scientists Stefan Hell of Germany and Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the U.S. share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing 'super-resolved fluorescence microscopy'; the technology can be used to observe molecular activity in living cells 2014 Event Argentina beats The Netherlands in the World Cup semifinals with a score of 4-2; the team will play Germany in the final match 2014 Event Germany beats Brazil 7-1 in the World Cup semifinals; the defeat is considered a possible explanation for ensuing incidents of bus burning around Sao Paulo 2014 Event Argentina and the Netherlands join Brazil and Germany as World Cup semifinalists 2014 Event Iran balks at the terms for peaceful nuclear development suggested by Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States; the nations hope to reach a deal by July 20th; in exchange, sanctions against Iran will be removed 2014 Event German company Linde begins constructing a facility to convert wind power to hydrogen; the plant will help Germany in its efforts to increase reliance on renewable energy sources 2014 Event Rising Asian demand for Champagne will represent increasing export growth, with Japan currently the fourth-largest export market after the U.K., the U.S. and Germany 2014 Event Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines, considers the territorial claims China has made in the South China Sea comparable to the Nazi Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia 2013 Event The U.S. Ambassador is summoned by Germany over suspicions that the U.S. monitored the cell phone calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel 2013 Event Germany holds its federal election; Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party obtains the most votes since 1990 2013 Event The International Olympic Committee elects Thomas Bach of Germany as their new President 2013 Event The IMF tells Germany now to impose austerity measures that are too harsh, and that they must be prepared to miss their deficit reduction target if Greece needs extra stimulus 2013 Event Britain, France and Germany close embassies in Yemen; Canada closes its embassy in Bangladesh; the U.S. closes 22 embassies in the Middle East and North America due to intelligence of an impending Al-Qaeda attack 2013 Event Sabine Lisicki of Germany is defeated at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships; Marion Bartoli of France wins the Ladies' Singles Final, earning her first Grand Slam singles title 2013 Event The sixth straight quarter of recession is announced by the Eurozone; Germany reports weak growth and negative growth is recorded in Spain, Italy and France 2013 Event Representatives from the U.S., China, Germany, France, Russia and the U.K., discuss Iran's nuclear program with Iranian officials 2013 Event Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf 2013 Event Germany, France, and nine other countries within the EU await approval from EU Finance Ministers to institute the Tobin tax, a tax on financial transactions 2012 Event The President of Germany's Social Democratic Party, Sigmar Gabriel recommends Peer Steinbruck as the party's Chancellor candidate for the 2012 German federal election 2012 Event In a letter on a controversy in Germany over circumcision, the President of Israel, Shimon Peres stresses that circumcision is at the core of Jewish identity 2012 Event Germany's Federal Assembly elects Joachim Gauck President of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011 Event Samsung Electronics files a patent infringement claim against Apple in Germany 2011 Event Reports indicate the credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will review 15 nations for possible downgrades, including France and Germany 2011 Event In Koblenz, Germany, 45,000 citizens wait to return home after bomb squads diffuse World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for nearly 65 years 2011 Event Germany's Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest driver to win the Formula One World Championship twice 2011 Event Pope Benedict XVI begins his state visit to Germany 2011 Event Acting on a lawsuit filed by Apple, Inc., a court in Dusseldorf, Germany orders Samsung to stop selling its new tablet computer, Galaxy Tab 2011 Event Concerns about the European economy are heightened as Germany reports second quarter growth of only 0.1% 2011 Event The E.coli strain that caused 46 deaths in Germany reportedly resurfaced in france, with eight people hospitalized in Bordeaux 2011 Event It is determined that the 20111 E. coli O104:H4 bacterial outbreak that began in Germany in May 2011 resulted from a combination of two dangerous E. coli strains 2011 Event Testing is conducted to confirm whether the E. coli outbreak came from vegetable sprouts in the Uelzen, Germany 2011 Event In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel pledges to end all nuclear power by 2022 2011 Event In Germany, at least 10 people die from cucumbers infected with the deadly bacteria E. coli 2011 Event Germany determines it must shut down part of its airspace as volcanic ash from Iceland's Grisvotn eruption spreads through northern Europe 2010 Event In Heuneburg, Germany, scientists discover a late Bronze Age grave of a Celtic princess, containing amber, gold, bronze and coal 2010 Event Germany holds its first pirate trial in 400 years, placing ten Somalia�s on trial for attacking a German ship 2010 Event In a Potsdam speech, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, claims multiculturalism has 'failed' in Germany 2010 Event Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp 2010 Event A piano reportedly played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is found in Baden-Baden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany 2010 Event Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany nominates Christian Wulff for President 2010 Event Planes return to the air in Germany, France and Italy after being grounded by ash clouds from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano 2010 Event Germany and the European Union deny planning a 20 - 25 billion euro financial aid plan for Greece 2010 Event China surpasses Germany, becoming the. world's largest exporter 2007 Death Karlheinz Stockhausen, dies in Germany, of heart failure, at 79 2007 Death Rudolf Arnheim, dies in Germany, at 102 2007 Death Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany 1998 Event World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany 1997 Death Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany 1997 Event Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map 1996 Event 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6 1996 Event Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day 1995 Event Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup 1995 Event 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11 1994 Event 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms 1994 Death Detlef Macha, East Germany cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35 1994 Event Record 103.8 degrees F (39.9 degrees C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany 1994 Event 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) 1994 Event 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago 1994 Death Erich Honecker, president of East Germany (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81 1994 Event Roman Herzog elected president of Germany 1994 Event 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45 1993 Event 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1) 1993 Event Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million 1993 Event 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) 1993 Event Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany 1992 Death Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78 1992 Event 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) 1992 Death Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79 1992 Death Karl Carstens, president West Germany 1979 - 1984, dies at 77 1992 Event Earthquake rocks Germany 1992 Death Heinz Kuhn, Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80 1991 Event Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel 1990 Death Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64 1990 Event 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany 1990 Event East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany 1990 Event Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany 1990 Event Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors 1990 Event East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact 1990 Event East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems 1990 Event C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13 1990 Event East and West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3 1990 Event Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome 1990 Event East and West Germany merge their economies 1990 Event Parliament of W and E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens 1990 Death Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany 1990 Event West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st 1990 Event 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists 1990 Event U.S., England, France and England give Germany OK to reunify 1989 Event 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2) 1989 Event East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution 1989 Event Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany 1988 Event Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated 1988 Event 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1) 1988 Event 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany 1988 Event Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50 1987 Event 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) 1987 Event "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany 1987 Event U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II 1987 Event West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns 1986 Event Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s) 1986 Event Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) 1986 Event Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup 1985 Event 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2) 1985 Event Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia 1985 Event West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to East Germany 1984 Event Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s 1984 Event Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m 1984 Event Jurgen Hingsen of W Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts 1984 Event Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD 1984 Event Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany 1983 Event 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Germany in Zurich, Switzerland (2-1) 1983 Event Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m 1983 Event Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany 1983 Event 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany 1982 Event Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of West Germany 1982 Event West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl 1982 Event Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) 1982 Event 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0) 1982 Event Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid 1982 Event 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany 1982 Event 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Germany in 2:29:33 1981 Event 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany 1980 Event Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany, 1980 Event Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend 1980 Event Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record 1980 Event Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8" 1980 Event Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy and Sallay 1979 Event East Germany frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner 1979 Death Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90 1978 Event Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany 1978 Birthday Sophie Simard, Lars Germany, swimmer 1996 Olympics 1978 Birthday Marco Sturm, Dingolfing GER, NHL forward, Sharks, Team Germany 1998 1978 Birthday Tia Mowry, born in Gelhausen, West Germany, also known as Tia Mowry Hardrict, actress, winner of NAACP Image Award, breakout role in sitcom, Sister, Sister 1977 Event Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in East Germany 1977 Birthday Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1977 Event "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released 1977 Event Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany 1977 Birthday Anne Miller, Midland, Michigan, tennis star, 1995 Darmstadt Germany 1976 Event East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen 1976 Birthday Dominic Monaghan, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, known for playing role of Merry in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'Lost' and 'FlashForward' television shows 1976 Event East Germany deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship 1976 Birthday Jana Kandarr, born in Halle, East Germany, professional tennis player, performed in Australian Open in 2000, WTA tournaments in 1996 and 2001 1976 Birthday Markus Wieland, Tegernsee GER, hockey player, Team Germany 1998 1976 Event Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda 1976 Event 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany 1976 Birthday Markus Wieland, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 1976 Death Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies 1976 Death Eugen Roth, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952, dies at 81 in Munich, Germany 1976 Birthday Erich Goldmann, born in Dingolfing GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 1976 Birthday Lars Bruggemann, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 1976 Birthday Florian Keller, Munchen GER, hockey player, Team Germany, Rosenheim 1975 Death Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80 1975 Event Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans 1975 Birthday Alexander Serikow, born in Landshut, GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1975 Birthday Agathe Neuner, Miss Germany Universe 1997 1975 Event 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 1975 Birthday Petra Begerow, born in Germany, tennis star, 1996 quarter Hilton Head 1975 Birthday Hendrik Dreekmann, Germany, tennis star 1974 Event Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun 1974 Birthday Anke Huber, Bruchsal Germany, tennis star, 1996 finalist Australian 1974 Birthday Meike Babel, Langen Germany, tennis star, 1991 Futures-Paderborn-GER 1974 Birthday Naike Rivelli, Germany, model/daughter of Ornella Muti 1974 Event East Germany amends constitution 1974 Event U.S. and East Germany establish diplomatic relations 1974 Birthday Franka Potente, born in Munster, Germany, actress, films include, 'The Bourne Identity', 'All I Want', 'The Bourne Supremacy' 1974 Event West Germany beats Netherlands 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich 1973 Birthday Mirko Ludemann, Weiwasser GER, NHL defenseman, Team Germany, Colorado 1973 Event U.S.S.R.-West Germany gas tunnel opens 1973 Event West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN 1973 Birthday Jochen Molling, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 1973 Death Walter Ulbricht, President East Germany, dies at 80 1973 Event Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m 1973 Birthday Heidi Klum, born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, model, Victoria's Secret 'Angel', television host, fashion designer, television producer 'Project Runway' 1973 Event Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany 1973 Birthday Barbara Rittner, born in Krefeld, West Germany, tennis star, 1992 Schenectady 1973 Birthday Franca Fehlauer, born in Hamburg, Germany, golfer, Belgian International, Jr. champ 1991 1973 Event Netherlands recognizes East Germany 1972 Event Belgium recognizes East Germany 1972 Event Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany 1972 Event West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations 1972 Event 20th Olympic games close at Munich, West Germany 1972 Event Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre 1972 Death Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, Germany night club performer/singer, dies 1972 Event 20th Olympic games open at Munich, West Germany 1972 Event West Germany wins soccer world championship 1972 Birthday Jan Benda, Reet Belgium, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1972 Death Heinrich Lubke, West Germany president (1959-69), dies at 77 1972 Event Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) 1972 Birthday Corinna Harney, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate, Aug, 1991 1971 Birthday Daniel Kunce, Sumperk GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 1971 Birthday Daniel Gowing, Germany, New Zealand judoka 1996 Olympics 1971 Birthday Ingo Rademacher, born in West Germany, actor, Jasper Jacks-General Hospital 1971 Birthday Victor Kraatz, born in Berlin, Germany, Canadian ice dancer, 1995 World Champs-4th 1971 Event Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM 1971 Birthday Torsten Kienass, Berlin GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1970 Event West Germany and Poland normalize relations 1970 Birthday Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer, European Amat champ 1994 1970 Event 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0) 1970 Birthday Claudia Schiffer, born in Rheinbach, Germany, super model, Elle, Rolling Stone 1970 Death H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies 1970 Birthday Heike Friedrich, born in East Germany swimmer, world record 200m 1970 Birthday Olaf Kolzig, born in Johannesburg SAF, NHL goalie, Team Germany, Washington 1970 Birthday Leo Stefan, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1970 Birthday Leo Stefan, Chelyabinsk RUS, hockey forward, Team Germany 1969 Birthday Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star 1969 Birthday Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg, East Germany, 100m/200m, World Champ 1991 1969 Birthday Katrin Borchert, Germany, Australian canoeist 1996 Olympics 1969 Event Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany 1969 Birthday Scott Ford, Norbrooke Germany, golfer, 1994 Trafalgar CPGA-2nd 1969 Birthday Rudolf Martin, Germany, actor, Anton-All My Children 1969 Birthday Sabine Hack, born in Ulm, Germany, tennis star, 1995 Jakarta 1969 Birthday Steffi Graf, born in Bruhl, West Germany, tennis player, Grand Slam 1988 1969 Birthday Wiltrud Probst, Nuermberg Germany, tennis star, 1992 Belgian Open 1969 Event Cambodia recognizes East Germany 1969 Birthday Graham Coxon, born in Rintein, West Germany, musician, instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, painter, lead guitarist and singer for Blur, art and music is featured on the band's seven albums, including Leisure, 1991, album titled 13, in 1999, and Think Tank, 2003, single-handedly recorded seven solo albums, including The Spinning Top on Transgressive records 1969 Birthday Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1969 Birthday Reemt Pyka, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1969 Birthday Reemt Pyka, Bremerhaven GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1968 Birthday Isabel Cueto, West Germany, tennis star 1968 Birthday Jo Kittsee, Germany, rocker, Fuzzbox-Into Rescue 1968 Birthday Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star 1968 Event Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hour 1968 Birthday Andreas Lupzig, Straubing GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1968 Birthday Christina Singer, born in Goeppingen, Germany, tennis star, 1991 Futures GBR 1968 Birthday Silke Meier, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, tennis star, 1994 Futures-Bad Gogging 1968 Event University church in Leipzig, East Germany, blown up 1968 Event East Germany adopts constitution 1968 Event New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect 1968 Birthday Bernd Karbacher, Germany, tennis star 1968 Birthday Jurgen Rumrich, born in Miesbach GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1968 Birthday Martin Sinner, Koblenz Germany, tennis star, 1990 Pretoria 1968 Birthday Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star 1967 Birthday Boris Becker, West Germany, tennis player, Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89 1967 Birthday Julie Kristen Smith, Nuhremburg Germany, choreographer, Showgirls 1967 Birthday Tore Meinecke, West Germany, tennis star 1967 Birthday Beate Reinstadler, Stuttgart, Germany, tennis star, 1989 Futures Israel 1967 Birthday Klaus Merk, born in Augsburg GER, hockey goaltender, Team Germany 1998 1967 Death Conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 1966 Death Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1966 Birthday Katja Bienert, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Praxis Bulowbogen 1966 Event England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London 1966 Birthday Elke Jeinsen, born in Hanover, Germany, playmate, May, 1993 1966 Birthday Daniel Nowak, Schwennigen GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 1966 Birthday Myriam Schropp, West Germany, tennis star 1966 Birthday Tatjana Patitz, born in Hamburg, West Germany, model/actress, Rising Sun 1966 Birthday Brad Bergen, Pennsylvania Sask, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 1966 Birthday Patrick Kuhnen, West Germany, tennis star 1965 Birthday Peter Draisaitl, born in Karvina, Czechoslovakia, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1965 Birthday Katarina Witt, born in Staaken, East Germany, figure skater, Gold Medals 1984, 1988 Olympics 1965 Birthday Andy Beal, Germany, Canadian Tour golfer, 1989 West of England Pro 1965 Event Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany 1965 Birthday Silke Horner, born in East Germany, swimmer, world record 100m-breast stroke 1965 Birthday Uwe Krupp, born in Cologne, Germany, NHL defenseman, Colorado Avalanche, Germany 98 1965 Event Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel 1965 Event Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations 1965 Birthday Mike Blowers, born in Wurlzburg, Germany, infielder, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers 1965 Birthday Martin Lawrence, born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, comedian, actor, producer, director, appeared in his own hit series, Martin on FOX 1965 Birthday Rica Reinisch, born in East Germany, 100m/200m backstroke, 1980 Olympics gold 1965 Event Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany 1965 Birthday Eric Jelen, West Germany, tennis star 1965 Event West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania 1965 Birthday Jayson Meyer, Regina Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1965 Birthday Georg Franz, Straubing GER, hockey forward, Team Germany, Landshut 1964 Birthday Heike Drechsler, Gera, East Germany, sprinter, 1988 world record 1964 Birthday Maxi Gnauck, born in East Germany, uneven parallel bars, 1980 Olympics gold 1964 Event Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of East Germany 1964 Event East Germany government allows short visits to West Germany 1964 Birthday Michael Gross, born in West Germany, swimmer, Olympic-2 world records-1984 1964 Event West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia 1964 Birthday Mark MacKay, Brandon GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1964 Birthday Heike Henkel, born in West Germany, world record indoor high jumper 1992 1964 Birthday Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star 1964 Event U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany 1963 Birthday Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, born in West Germany, tennis star 1963 Birthday Marco T Dawson, Freising Germany, PGA golfer, 1995 Greater Milw-2nd 1963 Birthday Thilo Timothy Newman, Hamburg Germany, writer, Freejack, Alien 1963 Birthday Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1963 Birthday Michael Heidt, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 1963 Birthday Ines Diers, born in East Germany, 400m freestyle swimmer, 1980 Olympics gold 1963 Birthday Caren Metschuck, born in East Germany, 100m butterfly swimmer, 1980 Olympics gold 1963 Birthday Gabriele Reinsch, born in East Germany, discus thrower, world record 1988 1963 Birthday Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, U.S. slalom single kayak, Olympics-6th-96 1963 Event Germany FR annexes Elten village 1963 Birthday Anne-Sophie Mutter, born in Rheinfeldin, Germany, violinist, Berlin Phil 1963 Birthday Tracey E Bregman, Munich Germany, actress, Lauren-Bold and Beautiful 1963 Birthday Josef Heiss, Garmisch GER, hockey goaltender, Team Germany 1998 1963 Birthday Randy Gilhen, born in Zweibrucken, Germany, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets 1963 Birthday Tracey E. Bregman Recht, Munich Germany, actress, Days of Our Life 1963 Birthday Thomas Perry, born in Germany, born Thomas Wellnowski, singer, songwriter, lead vocalist for Surprises band, performed own compositions on 'The Ballad Album' 1963 Birthday Benoit Doucet, born in Montreal, Quebec, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1963 Birthday Detlef Schrempf, Germany, NBA forward, Mavericks, Pacers, Supersonics 1962 Birthday Bettina Huebers, born in Hamburg, Germany, illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney 1962 Birthday Mike Nocito, born in Germany, rocker, leader of English pop band, Johnny Hates Jazz 1962 Birthday Kimberly Evenson, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate, September, 1984 1962 Event French president De Gaulle visits West Germany 1962 Birthday Sylvie Rauch, born in Munich, West Germany, nude model/actress 1962 Birthday Dieter Hegen, born in Kaufbeuren GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1962 Birthday Birgit Fischer, born in East Germany, 500m kayaker, 1980 Olympics gold 1962 Event Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 1962 Event 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany 1961 Birthday Cornelia Oschkenat, born in East Germany, hurdler, 50m indoor 1961 Event East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West and East Berlin 1961 Event East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13 1961 Event Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany 1961 Event East Germany limits traffic to West Berlin 1961 Birthday Karin Enke, born in Dresden, East Germany, speed skater, Gold Medals 1980, 1984 Olympics 1961 Birthday Ursula Buchfellner, born in Munich, Germany, playmate, Oct, 1979, actress, Bloodline 1961 Birthday Linda Somers, Bitburg, Germany, U.S. marathoner, Olympics-31st-96 1961 Birthday Eva Pfaff, West Germany, tennis star 1960 Event Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany 1960 Event West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany 1960 Event East Germany limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners 1960 Death Wilhelm Pieck, president of East Germany (1949-60), dies at 84 1960 Event East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin 1960 Birthday Christina Singer, born in Geoppingen, Germany, tennis star 1960 Birthday Gisela Beyer, born in East Germany, discus thrower, Olympics-4th place-1980 1960 Birthday Jurgen Schult, born in West Germany, discus thrower, world record 1986 1960 Event Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties 1960 Event U.S. beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1 1960 Birthday Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, born in Munich, West Germany, Princess 1960 Birthday Nastassja Kinski, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Tess, Cat People 1959 Event A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas 1959 Birthday Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player, Avon-1982 1959 Birthday Ronald Weigel, East Germany speed walker, 5 km indoor 1959 Birthday Petra Felke, born in East Germany, javelin thrower, world record 1988 1959 Birthday Andreas Wisniewski, born in Berlin, West Germany, actor, Living Daylights 1959 Birthday Nicole Brown Simpson, Frankford Germany, Mrs. O. J. Simpson, murdered 1959 Event West Germany introduces 5 day work week 1959 Birthday Paul Terry, cricketer, in Germany Two Tests England vs. WI 1984 1958 Birthday Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate, March, 1979 1958 Event U.S.S.R. abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany 1958 Birthday Ramona Neubert, born in East Germany, long jumper/pentathlete, 1980 Olympics 1958 Death Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian/Germany choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78 1958 Birthday Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-22 1958 Birthday Marlies Gohr, born in East Germany, sprinter, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1958 Birthday Andreas Maurer, West Germany, tennis star 1958 Birthday Christine Lathan-Brehmer, born in East Germany, 400m runner, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics 1958 Birthday Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor, Loving, All My Children 1958 Birthday Frank Ullrich, East Germany, world biathlon champion 1957 Birthday Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind 1957 Birthday Craig Lefferts, born in Munich, West Germany, professional baseball player, played for Chicago Cubs, relief pitcher, pitching coach for Vancouver Canadians 1957 Event Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany 1957 Birthday Bernhard Langer, born in Anhausen, West Germany, professional golfer, two-time Masters champion, ranked as the world's first official number one player in 1986 1957 Birthday Hansi Muller, born in Stuttgart, Germany, athlete, footballer, played for German national football team 1957 Birthday Bogdan Musiol, born in East Germany, bobsled 1980 Olympics bronze 1957 Event East Germany accepts 22 Russian divisions 1957 Birthday Marita Koch, born in East Germany, 400m sprinter, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics, Silver Medal 1980 Olympics 1957 Birthday LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, Roots, Star Trek Next Generation 1956 Birthday Reinhold Ewald, Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-25 1956 Birthday Herbert Groenemeyer, Germany, rocker, OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge 1956 Birthday Ilona Briesenick-Slupianek, born in East Germany, shot-putter, 1980 Olympics gold 1956 Birthday Sandra Guiboard, born in U.S. AFB West Germany, actress, Donna-One Life to Live 1956 Birthday Hans-Georg Beyer, born in East Germany, team handball player, 1980 Olympics gold 1956 Event Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany 1956 Event East Germany frees almost 19,000 prisoners 1956 Birthday Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt, West Germany, high jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1956 Birthday Michael Nikolay, born in East Germany, gymnast, Olympics 1956 Birthday Evelin Jahl, born in East Germany, discus thrower, Olympic-2 gold-1976 1956 Birthday Peter Schilling, Stuttgart Germany, rocker 1956 Event East Germany forms own army (National People's Army) 1955 Death Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany 1955 Birthday Uwe Benter, born in West Germany, coxsman, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1955 Event Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania 1955 Event West Germany joins NATO 1955 Event West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers 1955 Death Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70 1955 Event East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, U.S.S.R. 1955 Birthday Barbel Wockel-Eckert, born in East Germany, sprinter, Olympic-4 gold-1976, 80 1955 Birthday [Kater]Nina Hagen, born in East Berlin, East Germany, actress, Blue Angel 1955 Event Russia ends state of war with Germany 1954 Birthday Ullrich Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold 1954 Birthday Walter Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold 1954 Birthday Eva Mattes, Tegernsee Germany, actress, Celeste, Man Like Eva 1954 Birthday Hans William Schlegel, Oberlingen Germany, Astronaut, STS-55 1954 Event Britain, England, France and U.S.S.R. agree to end occupation of Germany 1954 Event West Germany joins NATO 1954 Event West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1954 Birthday Hans-Jurgen Gerhardt, born in East Germany, bobsled, 1980 Olympics gold 1954 Event West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany 1954 Event Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany 1954 Event West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern 1954 Birthday Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up, 1975 1954 Birthday Dagmar Wohrl, born in West Germany, Miss Germany, 1977 1954 Birthday Gunther Tiersch, born in East Germany, 8 man cox, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1954 Birthday Ulrich Walter, born in West Germany, cosmonaut 1954 Birthday Norbert Hahn, born in East Germany, 2 man luge, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1953 Birthday Monique St. Pierre, Weisbaden Germany, playmate of year, Nov, 1978 1953 Event West Germany applies to NATO 1953 Event Allied forces form West Germany 1953 Event Adenauers CDU wins elections in West Germany 1953 Birthday Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz, Germany, astronaut 1953 Birthday Klaus-Dietrich Flade, born in West Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-14 1953 Event Riots in East Germany for reunification 1953 Birthday Hans Rinn, born in East Germany, 2 man lugist, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1953 Event West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1 1953 Birthday Stephen D. Thorne, born in Frankfurt-on-Main, West Germany, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1952 Birthday Tamara Danz, born in Breitungen, Germany, singer with famous band Gitarreros, known as "Tina Turner of the East" 1952 Birthday Brent Mydland, Munich Germany, rock keyboardist/vocalist, Grass Roots 1952 Birthday Alexander Leibkind, Germany, judo, 1976 Olympics, WLAF, General Manager for the Rhein Fire 1952 Birthday Monika Zehrt, born in East Germany, 400m runner, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1952 Birthday Margit Schumann, born in East Germany, luge 1976 Olympics gold 1952 Birthday Johanna Klier-Schaller, born in East Germany, 100m hurdler 1976 Olympics gold 1952 Event East German SED decides to form East Germany army 1952 Birthday Ulrich Wehling, born in East Germany, cross country, Gold Medal 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics 1952 Birthday Seigfried Brietzke, born in East Germany, coxless rower, Gold Medals 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics 1952 Birthday Rosemarie Ackermann, born in East Germany, high jumper 1976 Olympics gold 1952 Event Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain 1951 Birthday Bernd Landvoigt, born in East Germany, coxless pairs, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics 1951 Birthday Jorg Landvoigt, born in East Germany, coxless pairs, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics 1951 Birthday Todd Crespi, Frankfurt Germany, actor, Magician 1951 Event President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany 1951 Birthday Bernie Ruoff, West Germany, CFL kicker, Winnipeg, Hamilton 1951 Birthday Bernhard Germeshausen, born in East Germany, bobsled, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1951 Event Netherlands ends state of war with Germany 1951 Event President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany 1951 Birthday Burglinde Pollak, born in East Germany, pentathlete, Olympics-bronze-1972 1951 Birthday Angela Voigt, born in East Germany, long jumper, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics 1951 Event 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany 1951 Event France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community 1951 Event Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany 1951 Event Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany 1951 Birthday Manfred Schumann, born in West Germany, bobsled, Olympic-silver/bronze-1976 1950 Birthday Inge Helten, born in West Germany, sprinter 1976 Olympics bronze 1950 Birthday Roland Matthes, born in East Germany, 100m/200m backstroke, 4 Gold Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics, Silver Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics, Bronze Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics 1950 Birthday Annegret Richter-Irrang, born in West Germany, sprinter, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1950 Event Western allies rearm West Germany 1950 Event International Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany and Japan in '52 1950 Event West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation 1950 Birthday Rosi Mittermaier, born in West Germany, slalom/downhill 1976 Olympics gold 1950 Birthday Waldemar Cierpinski, born in East Germany, marathoner, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1950 Birthday Mathieu Carriere, Hanover W Germany, actor, Bay Boy, Woman in Flames 1950 Event ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws 1950 Event East Germany recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland 1950 Birthday Annelie Ehrhardt, born in East Germany, 100m hurdler, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1950 Birthday Heidi Schuller, born in Germany, 1st woman to take olympic oath, 1972 1950 Event Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens 1950 Event East Germany and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border 1950 Birthday Dagmar Krause, born in West Germany, singer, Henry Cow, Art Bears 1950 Birthday Thomas Gottschalk, Bamberg Germany, Telespiele 1950 Birthday Renate Stecher, born in East Germany, sprinter, 3 Gold Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics, Silver Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics, Bronze Medal 1976 Olympics 1950 Birthday Barbara Sukowa, Germany, actress, Zentropia, Sicilian, Voyager, Lola 1950 Birthday Rio Reiser, born in Berlin, Germany, born Ralph Christian Mobius, musician, singer, political activist, member of ton Steine Scherben, a famous rock group, wrote Rachhaussong supporting the squatter scene 1949 Event Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700 1949 Event Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of East Germany 1949 Event Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of East Germany 1949 Event Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation 1949 Event Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany 1949 Birthday Hildegard Falck, born in West Germany, 800m runner, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1949 Event Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) 1949 Birthday Jean-Jacques Favier, born in Kehl, Germany, astronaut, STS-78 1949 Birthday Anna-Maria Muller, born in East Germany, Luge, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1949 Birthday Tom Netherton, born in Munich, Germany, singer, Lawrence Welk Show 1948 Birthday Marius Mueller-Westernhagen, Duesseldorf Germany, rocker, Stinker 1948 Birthday Jackson Browne, U.S. Base in Germany, rock voclaist, Lawyers in Love 1948 Birthday Susan Blakely, Frankfurt Germany, actress, Rich Man Poor Man 1948 Event I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die 1948 Birthday Peter Ruzicka, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, professor, composer, conductor, composes stage, orchestral, chamber, piano, vocal music 1948 Birthday Sam Gejdenson, born in Eschwege, Germany, Representative-D-Connecticut 1981 - 2001 1947 Birthday Ursula Krechel, born in Trier, Germany, writer, poet, radio dramatist, winner, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2009, works include, 'Der Ubergriff' 1947 Birthday Frank Shorter, Munich Germany, U.S. marathoner, Olympic-gold/silver-72, 76 1947 Birthday Karin Struck, born in Germany, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 1947 Birthday Heidemarie Rosendahl, born in West Germany, long jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1946 Birthday Ruth Fuchs, born in East Germany, javelin thrower, Gold Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics 1946 Birthday Andre Watts, born in Nuremberg, Germany, concert pianist, Oberon 1946 Event SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany 1945 Event 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1945 Birthday George Dzunda, born in Rosenheim, Germany, actor, Deer Hunter, Law and Order 1945 Birthday Kellie Everts, born in Kalv, Germany, Miss nude Universe, 1968 1945 Death Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King', dies at 58 in Beverly Hills, California 1945 Event Day of Unity in West Germany, National Day 1945 Event U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., France declare supreme authority over Germany 1945 Event U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany 1945 Birthday Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut, STS-22 1945 Event V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe 1945 Death Adolf Hitler, genocidal leader of Germany commits suicide 1945 Event U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany 1945 Event Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission 1945 Event Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany 1945 Event U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River 1945 Event U.S. troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II 1945 Event U.S. 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany 1945 Birthday Uwe Beyer, born in East Germany, shot-putter 1976 Olympics gold 1945 Event U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany 1945 Death Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged 1945 Event U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1945 Death Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45 1945 Event General Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany 1945 Event During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany 1945 Event Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine 1945 Event U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine 1945 Birthday Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards 1945 Event Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die 1945 Event U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die 1944 Birthday Erhard Keller, born in West Germany, 500m speed skater, Gold Medal 1968, 1972 Olympics 1944 Event Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany 1944 Death Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend', dies in Neuotting, Bavaria, at age 79 1944 Event German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany 1944 Birthday Liesel Westermann, born in West Germany, discus thrower, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics 1944 Birthday Udo Kier, Germany, actress, Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein 1944 Event U.S. Army troops entered Germany for 1st time 1944 Event Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany 1944 Event "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany 1944 Event Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours 1944 Death Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion 1944 Death Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies 1944 Event 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany 1944 Birthday Gunhild Hoffmeister, born in West Germany, 800m/1500m runner, Silver Medal 1972 Olympics 1944 Birthday Michael Obst, born in West Germany, coxsman 1960 Olympics gold 1944 Birthday Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director, Dormire, Atem, Rheingold 1944 Birthday John Kay, Joachim F Krauledat, Germany, rock vocalist, Steppenwolf 1944 Birthday Christoph Hein, born in Bad Duben, Germany, writer, prize-winning author, translator, studied philosophy, wrote 1982 novella The Distant Lover 1944 Event Nazi Germany occupies Hungary 1944 Event Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed 1944 Event European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany 1943 Birthday Christiane Schmidtmer, Heidelberg Germany, actress, Ship of Fools 1943 Birthday Orton Enderlein, born in West Germany, luge 1964 Olympic gold 1943 Event Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany 1943 Birthday Udo Zimmermann, born in Dresden, Germany, composer, conductor, artistic director, music director, Leipzig Opera House 1943 Birthday Nick St. Nicholas, Hamburg Germany, rock bassist, Steppenwolf 1943 Event Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany 1943 Event Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany 1943 Birthday Ingrid Kramer, born in Dresden, Germany, diver 1964 Olympic gold 1943 Event RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde 1943 Event Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany 1943 Event Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe 1943 Event Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die 1943 Event Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam 1943 Event Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry 1943 Birthday Marika Kilius, born in West Germany, ice skating pair, Olympics silver 1960, 64 1943 Event RAF bombs Essen Germany 1943 Birthday Wolfgang Scheidel, born in East Germany, luge, 1972 Olympics gold 1943 Event Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission 1943 Event Chile breaks contact with Germany and Japan 1943 Event 1st U.S. air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) 1942 Event 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany 1942 Event During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France 1942 Birthday Elke Sommer, Elke Schletz, Berlin Germany, actress, Oscar 1942 Birthday Gunter Wallraff, born in Burscheid, Germany, writer, undercover journalist, wrote on tabloid journalism, lower working class conditions 1942 Birthday Ingrid Becker, born in West Germany, long jumper/relayer, Gold Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics 1942 Event Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy 1942 Event Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy 1942 Birthday Hans-Joachim Klein, born in West Germany, 100m swimmer 1964 Olympics bronze 1942 Birthday Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist, Tornados 1942 Event Germany troop march into Woronezj 1942 Event Germany troop march into Sebastopol 1942 Event British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) 1942 Event 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km 1942 Event Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island 1942 Event Germany Armys march into Sebastopol 1942 Birthday Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director, Marianne 1942 Event 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany 1942 Birthday Hansdjurgen Baumler, Germany, pairs ice skater, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics 1941 Event Germany and Italy declare war on US 1941 Event China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy 1941 Event U.S.S.R. begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat 1941 Event Germany's drive to take Moscow halted 1941 Event Prior to U.S. in WW II, Germany torpedoes U.S. destroyer Reuben James 1941 Event Germany attacks Moscow 1941 Event Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow 1941 Event Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins 1941 Event Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star 1941 Event French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany 1941 Event "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers 1941 Birthday Karin von Aroldingen, born in Germany, ballet dancer, New York City Ballet Co 1941 Birthday Margritta Gummel, born in East Germany, shot putter, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1941 Event Bialystok Poland falls to Germany 1941 Event Germany occupies Telz Lithuana 1941 Event Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states 1941 Event Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 1941 Death Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies 1941 Event Germany bans all Catholic publications 1941 Event Germany occupies Kreta 1941 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor 1941 Birthday Konrad Boehmer, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, writer, Marxist, Ph. D. University of Cologne, professor, Royal Conservatory of The Hague 1941 Event Germany invades Crete 1941 Event Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis 1941 Event Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany 1941 Event Germany blitzes Conventry, England 1941 Birthday Hans W. Geissendorfer, born in Augsburg, Germany, director, Sternsteinhof 1941 Event Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa 1941 Birthday Wolfgang Petersen, born in Emden, Germany, actor, Shattered, Enemy Mine 1941 Birthday Heidi Biebi, Federal Republic of Germany, downhill skier 1960 Olympics gold 1941 Birthday Meinhard Nehmer, born in East Germany, 2 man bobsledder 1976 Olympics gold 1940 Event Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) 1940 Birthday Edith Clever, Wuppertal Germany, actress, Parsifal, L'Adolescente 1940 Event Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw 1940 Birthday Richard Furrer, Worgl Germany, astronaut, STS-22 1940 Birthday Helma Sanders-Brahms, Emden Germany, director, Apple Trees, Manoever 1940 Event Germany invades Norway and Denmark in WW II 1940 Event Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends 1940 Event 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin) 1940 Event Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins) 1940 Event Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks 1940 Event Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands 1940 Event RAF bombs Germany 1940 Event ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany 1940 Birthday Thomas Kohler, born in East Germany, luger, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics 1940 Event France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms 1940 Event France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II 1940 Event Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland 1940 Event Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II 1940 Event Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up 1940 Event Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France 1940 Event Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany 1940 Event Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II, Denmark surrenders 1940 Event Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious 1940 Event Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain 1940 Event Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest 1940 Birthday Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor 1940 Birthday Helmut Jahn, born in Nuremburg, Germany, architect, designed O'Hare 'L' Station, Chicago, Illinois, AIA's, Ten Most Influential Living Architects, 1991 1939 Event 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany 1939 Event 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany 1939 Event U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews 1939 Event Germany annexes Western Poland 1939 Event Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland 1939 Birthday Eberhard Koellner, born in East Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz 31 backup 1939 Event Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I 1939 Event Canada declares war on Germany 1939 Event In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany 1939 Event Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland 1939 Event Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada 1939 Event WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1939 Event Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor 1939 Event Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact 1939 Event U.S.S.R. and Germany sign a non-agression pact 1939 Event Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis 1939 Event Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany 1939 Event Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany 1939 Event Germany occupies Czechoslovakia 1939 Event Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia 1938 Event Germany bans Jews being lawyers 1938 Birthday Herbert Achternbusch, Munich Germany, actor, Hedes, Mix Wix, Wohin 1938 Event Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland 1938 Event Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J 1938 Event Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) 1938 Event Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany 1938 Event Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany 1938 Birthday Brunhilde Hendrix, born in West Germany, relay runner 1960 Olympics silver 1938 Event Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany 1938 Birthday Karin Balzer, born in East Germany, hurdler, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1938 Event Austria becomes a state of Germany 1938 Event Austria annexed by Nazi Germany 1938 Event Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) 1938 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany 1937 Birthday Nicolas Born, born in Duisburg, Germany, writer, wrote, 'Die Falschung', 'Die erdabgewandte Seite der Gerschichte' 1937 Event German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany 1937 Event Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement 1937 Birthday Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist, Boston Competition 1964 1937 Birthday George Thoma, born in West Germany, cross country ski jumper 1960 Olympics gold 1937 Event Reverend Martin Niemoller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany 1937 Death Georg A Erman, Germany egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 1937 Birthday Helmut Recknagel, born in Germany, 90m ski jump, Gold Medal 1960 Olympics 1937 Birthday Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist, Nobel 1988 1937 Birthday Sigmund Jaehn, born in East Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz 31/29 1937 Birthday Manfred Krug, Duisburg Germany, actor, Boxer 1936 Event Germany and Japan sign anti-Komintern pact 1936 Birthday Hans Zender, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, composer, conductor, music professor, Conductor in Chief of the Chamber Orchestra of Radio Netherlands in Hilversum, Southwest German Radio guest conductor 1936 Event Germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco 1936 Birthday Wolf Biermann, born in Hamburg, Germany, singer, songwriter, former East German dissident, wrote folk music, political ballads, studied political economics at Humboldt University of Berlin 1936 Event Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" 1936 Birthday Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist, Right to Life, Dripper Boxes 1936 Birthday Manfred Schoof, born in Madgeburg, Germany, composer, founder, European free jazz, professor in Cologne, interpreter of works by Bernd Alouis Zimmermann 1936 Birthday John White, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, musician, tuba player, invented Systems music, a British form of minimalism, influences include Howard Skempton, Cornelius Cardew 1936 Event 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany 1936 Birthday Alwin Schockemohle, born in Germany, equestrian jumper, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics 1936 Event 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 1936 Event 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 1936 Birthday Reiner Klimke, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage 1984 Olympics gold 1935 Death Kurt Tucholsky, Germany journalist and writer (Panter, Tiger and Co), dies at 45 1935 Event Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany 1935 Birthday Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor, Dresden State Opera 1961 1935 Event Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany 1935 Birthday Christoph Meckel, born in Berlin, Germany, graphic artist, writer, author, works include 'Georg Heym: Gedichte' 1935 Event Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers 1935 Birthday Hubert Fichte, born in Germany, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, influenced by Marcel Proust, Hans henny Jahnn, Jean Genet, wrote novel Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit, translated as the history of sensibility 1935 Birthday Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses 1935 Event Saar incorporated into Germany 1935 Event Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering 1935 Death Max Liebermann, Germany impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87 1935 Event Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany 1934 Event Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany 1934 Event Germany and Poland sign no-attack treaty 1934 Birthday Josef Sommer, born in Germany, actor, Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March 1934 Birthday Helga Haase, born in West Germany, 500m speed skater 1960 Olympics gold 1934 Event 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany 1934 Event Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany 1934 Event Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany 1934 Event Nazi Germany and Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years 1933 Birthday Horst Buchholz, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe 1933 Birthday Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine 1933 Event Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany 1933 Birthday Wilfried Dietrich, born in West Germany, super-heavyweight 1960 Olympics gold 1933 Event Albert Einstein arrives in U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany 1933 Event Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations 1933 Birthday Irmtraud Morgner, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society 1933 Birthday Reiner Kunze, born in Oelsnitz, Germany, writer, dissident of the German Democratic Republic, book, 'The Lovely Years', published in West Germany 1933 Event Death penality for anti fascists in Germany 1933 Event Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness 1933 Event NSDAP becomes only party in Germany 1933 Event Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany 1933 Event In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions 1933 Event Jewish students are barred from school in Germany 1933 Event Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany 1933 Event Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses 1933 Event Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany 1933 Event Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) 1933 Event Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany 1932 Event General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany 1932 Event Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights 1932 Birthday Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine 1932 Event 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4 1932 Death Hugo Kaun, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works, dies at 69 in Berlin, Germany 1932 Birthday Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema 1931 Event Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel 1931 Birthday Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell 1931 Birthday Bill Graham, Germany, rock promoter, Fillmore 1930 Birthday Rudy Boschwitz, born in Berlin, Germany, Senator-R-Minnesota 1978 - 1991 1930 Birthday Harry Glass, born in East Germany, 1st E German Olympic medalist, bronze-1956 1930 Birthday Igor Kipnis, Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor, Fairfield 1930 Birthday Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor, Stuttgart 1955-58 1930 Birthday Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor, Bavarian State Orchestra 1968 1930 Birthday Helmut Kohl, chancellor, Germany, 1982- 1930 Birthday Harry Boldt, Federal Republic of Germany, equestrian dressage 1976 Olympics gold 1929 Birthday Christoph von Dohnanyi, Berlin Germany, conductor/pianist, Cleveland Orchestra 1929 Birthday Anneliese Kuppers, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage, Silver Meda 1956 Olympics 1929 Birthday Hermann Prey, born in Berlin, Germany, baritone, Wolfram-Tannhauser 1929 Birthday Gerd Zacher, born in Meppen, Germany, composer, organist, writer, contemporary compositions, written in graphic or verbal scores, include extended techniques, known as interpreter of works by Johann Sebastian Bach 1929 Birthday Harald Juhnke, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Guitars of Love 1929 Birthday Andre Previn, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor London Symphony, and pianist 1929 Death Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Germany para-psychologist, dies at 66 1929 Birthday Rudolf Mossbauer, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1961 1928 Birthday Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor, Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s 1928 Event KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet 1928 Death Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64 1928 Birthday Karlheinz Stockhausen, born in Germany, composer, worked with electronic music, musical spatialization 1928 Birthday Ruth Westheimer, born in Germany, sex therapist, WYNY-FM 1928 Birthday Hardy Kruger, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Barry Lyndon, Wrong is Right 1928 Birthday Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera 1927 Birthday Dieter Noll, born in Riesa, Germany, writer, wrote two-volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt, over two million copies sold, volume one used as East German school curriculum 1927 Death Leonard Nelson, Germany philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45 1927 Birthday Gunter Grass, Danzig Germany, novelist/poet, Tin Drum 1927 Event Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet 1927 Birthday Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music 1927 Birthday Liselott Linsenhoff, born in West Germany, equestrian, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1927 Birthday Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels 1927 Birthday Karlheinz Boehm, born in Germany, actor, Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural 1927 Event International allies military command in Germany disbands 1926 Birthday Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer 1956 Olympics gold 1926 Birthday Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer, Nardo, Italy 1926 Birthday John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor, Sam Bolt-Honey West 1926 Event Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining 1926 Event Germany joins League of Nations 1926 Event League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany 1926 Birthday Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper 1956 Olympics gold 1926 Birthday Hans Werner Henze, Guttersloh Germany, composer, Das Floss Medusa 1926 Birthday Klaus Tennstedt, born in Merseburg, Germany, conductor, Fidelio 1926 Event Germany and Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty 1926 Event Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany 1926 Birthday Gunter Meisner, born in Germany, actor, Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum 1926 Birthday Werner Torkanowsky, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor, New Orleans Symph 1926 Event Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations 1926 Event Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany 1926 Birthday Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats, SPD 1925 Birthday Hildegarde Neff, Ulm Germany, actress, Touch of Class, Mozambique 1925 Birthday Ossi Reichert, born in West Germany, giant slalom 1956 Olympics gold 1925 Event Netherlands and Germany sign trade agreement 1925 Birthday Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone, Doktor Faust 1925 Birthday Cornell Borchers, born in Germany, actress, Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul 1925 Death Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies 1925 Birthday Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician 1925 Birthday Rosemary Murphy, Munich Germany, actress, Margaret-Lucas Tanner 1924 Death Hans Thoma, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum, dies in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the age of 85 1924 Birthday Hannelore Weygrand, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage, Silver Medal 1956 Olympics 1924 Event Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted 1923 Event Salary and price freeze in Germany 1923 Event Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD 1923 Event In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power 1923 Event German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany 1923 Event Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down 1923 Birthday Bert Kaempfert, born in Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole 1923 Event 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms 1923 Event Germany's Stresemann resigns 1923 Event Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government 1923 Event KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany 1923 Birthday Gerald Gotting, East Germany president, CDU 1923 Birthday Eva Zeller, born in Germany, poet, writer, novelist, wrote Lampenfieber, Hauptfrau, Fliehkraft, Auf dem Wasser gehen 1923 Event Last U.S. troops leave Rhineland (Germany) 1922 Event B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany 1922 Birthday Michel Auclair, Vujovic, Germany, actor, Story of a Love Story 1922 Birthday Lukas Foss, Fuchs, Berlin Germany, composer, Prairie 1922 Birthday Carl Amery, born in Munich, Germany, writer, used pen name Christian Anton Mayer, studied at University of Munich, participant in Gruppe 47, a post-World War II literary association 1922 Birthday Andre Asriel, born in Germany, composer, winner of 1951 National Prize for East Germany 1921 Death Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany opera composer (Schneewittchen), dies at 67 1921 Event Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die 1921 Event U.S. signs peace treaty with Germany 1921 Event Treaty of Berlin: U.S. and Germany sign separate peace treaty 1921 Birthday Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor, Possession 1921 Event Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany 1921 Birthday Joseph Beuys, Germany, avant-garde painter/politician 1921 Birthday Simone Signoret, born in Weisbaden, Germany, Casque d'Or, Room at the Top 1921 Birthday Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer 1921 Death Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Germany chancellor/Prime Minister (Prussia), dies at 64 1920 Event USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany 1920 Birthday Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor, Mr Shorofsky-Fame 1920 Birthday Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs 1936 Olympics gold 1920 Birthday Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, U.S. writer, Hollywood: A Novel 1920 Birthday Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president, Germany, 1984-94 1920 Birthday Werner Klemperer, born in Cologne, Germany, actor, Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes 1920 Event Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies 1919 Event Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany 1919 Event Weimar Republic begins in Germany 1919 Event Germany accepts Weimar Constitution 1919 Event Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria 1919 Birthday Uta Hagen, born in Germany, actress, Boys From Brazil, teaches acting 1919 Event Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany) 1919 Event General strike in Germany, crushed 1919 Event Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike 1919 Event Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany 1918 Birthday Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany, SPD, 1974- 1918 Event U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany 1918 Event Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia and Germany, abdicates 1918 Birthday Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper, 1936 Olympics 1918 Event Germany surrenders ending WW I, Allies and Germany sign armistice 1918 Event Republic Germany proclaimed 1918 Birthday Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor, Assignment Vienna 1918 Event Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea 1918 Birthday Karen Verne, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Madame X 1918 Event During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive 1918 Event Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign 1918 Event Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia 1918 Event Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day) 1918 Event 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland 1917 Event UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany 1917 Event 1st British bombing of Germany 1917 Event Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey 1917 Event China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I 1917 Death Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Germany composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70 1917 Event Germany bombs London 1917 Event U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I 1917 Event President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1917 Event AP reports Mexico and Japan will allie with Germany if U.S. enters WW I 1917 Event Germany notifies U.S. that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship 1916 Event Greece declares war on Germany 1916 Birthday Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade 1916 Event Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany 1916 Event Germany declares war on Romania 1916 Event Italy declares war against Germany during WW I 1916 Event 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany 1916 Birthday Unica Zurn, born in Berlin, Germany, author, painter, wrote anagram poems and held automatic drawing exhibitions 1916 Event Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun 1916 Event At request of U.S., Germany curtails its submarine warfare 1916 Event Germany declares war against Portugal 1916 Event Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic 1915 Event 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany 1915 Birthday Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, nazi/minister of defense, 1956-62 1915 Birthday Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist, Beaux Arts Trio 1915 Event Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam 1915 Event Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa 1915 Event Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace 1915 Event Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I 1915 Event Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany 1915 Event 1st military use of chlorine poison gas by Germany in WW I 1915 Event Dutch merchant Navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo 1915 Event Germany sinks U.S. ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin 1915 Event Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war 1915 Event Germany begins a blockade of England 1914 Birthday Karl Carstens, German, CDU, President Germany, 1979-84 1914 Birthday John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO, Metromedia, billionaire 1914 Event British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany 1914 Event Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die) 1914 Event Japan declares war on Germany in World War I 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany 1914 Event Montenegro declares war on Germany 1914 Event Serbia declares war against Germany 1914 Event Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 1914 Event Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I 1914 Event Great Britain declares war on Germany 1914 Event Turkey signs military pact with Germany 1914 Event Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty 1914 Event France and Germany mobilize 1914 Event Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I 1914 Event Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" 1914 Birthday Willi Stoph, president East Germany 1914 Event Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia 1914 Death Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78 1914 Birthday Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom 1936 Olympics gold 1914 Birthday Wolfgang Windgassen, born in Annemasse, Germany, tenor, Stuttgart Opera 1914 Birthday Lilli Palmer, Peiser, Germany, actress, Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar 1914 Birthday Lilli Palmer, born in Posen, Germany, actress, Boys From Brazil, Sebastian 1914 Birthday Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum 1913 Birthday Gisela Mauermeyer, Germany, discus thrower 1936 Olympics gold 1913 Birthday Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor, Brain, Wages of Fear 1913 Birthday Edith Heerdegen, born in Dresden, Germany, actress, Serpent's Egg, Monpti 1913 Birthday Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor, Goldfinger 1912 Birthday Heinz Galinski, President, Central council for Jews in Germany 1912 Death Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies 1912 Birthday Ilse Dorffeldt, Germany, sprint relay, Olympic-1936 1912 Birthday Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor, E Berlin Symph 1960-77 1912 Birthday Erich Honecker, Germany, President, East Germany 1912 Birthday Henry Brandon, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Drums of Fu Manchu 1912 Birthday Ingolf Dahl, born in Hamburg, Germany, composer, Andante and Arioso 1912 Birthday Josef Neckermann, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1912 Birthday Alfred Schwarzmann, born in Germany, gymnast, Olympic-2 golds-1936 1912 Birthday Werner von Braun, born in Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert, I Aim at the Stars 1912 Birthday Konrad Bloch, Germany, biochemist, studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964 1911 Event France and Germany signs treaty about Morocco and Congo 1911 Birthday James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author, Lion Game 1911 Event British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany 1911 Birthday Gerhard Stoeck, born in Germany, javelin thrower 1936 Olympics gold 1911 Event Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany 1911 Birthday Bernhard, born in Germany, Prince, Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands 1911 Birthday Marianne Hoppe, Rostock Germany, Bei Thea, Liebrauen 1911 Birthday Gunther Rennert, born in Essen, Germany, opera director and producer 1910 Birthday Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled 1952 Olympics gold 1910 Birthday Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint 1910 Event 1st airship in service "Germany" 1910 Birthday Rudolf Kempe, born in Niederpoyritz, Germany, conductor, Tonhalle Orchestra 1965 - 1972 1910 Birthday Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star, 1932 Olympics bronze 1910 Birthday Norman Wooland, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, actor, Hamlet 1910 Event Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty 1910 Birthday Willi Schmidt, Germany, director 1910 Birthday Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation 1909 Birthday Jean Berger, born in Hamm, Germany, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, studied with Paris' Louis Aubert, taught at Middlebury College, University of Colorado at Boulder, among others 1909 Birthday Jane Baxter, Feodora Forde, Bremen Germany, actress, We Live Again 1909 Birthday Hilde Domin, born in Cologne, Germany, lyric poet, writer, German-language poet, wrote Das zweite Paradies (The Second Paradise), volume of prose 1909 Event Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns 1909 Birthday Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist, West Germany 1909 Event Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands 1909 Event France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco 1908 Birthday Franz Pfnur, Germany, slalom 1936 Olympics gold 1908 Birthday Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Berlin Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer 1908 Event Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Sweden sign North Sea accord 1908 Birthday Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, born in Essen, Germany, tennis star, French 1935 1908 Birthday Albrecht Goes, born in Germany, pastor with the German army, writer, novelist, BBC Television in the United Kingdom adapted Unruhige Nacht in 1950, his novel, translated in English as 'Arrow to the Heart' 1907 Death Adolf Furtwangler, Germany archaeologist (Die antiken Gemmen), dies at 53 1907 Birthday Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer 1907 Birthday Gene Gutche, born in Berlin, Germany, Romeo Maximillian Eugene Ludwig Gutsche, composer, studied business, economics, piano with Ferruccio Busoni, wrote neo-Romantic work, experimented with polytonality, microtones, serialism 1907 Birthday J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist, atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963 1907 Birthday Martin Kosleck, born in Germany, actor, Pursuit to Algiers 1906 Birthday Franz Waxman, Konigshutte, Germany, composer, Day at the Races 1906 Birthday Hannah Arendt, Germany, historian, Origins of Totalitarianism 1906 Birthday Gottlob Frick, born in Germany, singer, bass, performed opera including roles by Wagner and Mozart, best known recording is Osmin, in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Rocco in Fidelio, Sarastro in The Magic Flute 1906 Birthday Stefan Andres, born in Germany, post-World War II writer, novelist 1906 Birthday Tonio Selwart, born in Germany, actor, Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja 1906 Birthday Marcel Hillaire, born in Cologne, Germany, actor, Adv in Paradise 1906 Birthday Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer 1905 Birthday Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann 1905 Birthday Max Schmeling, Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ, 1930-32 1905 Birthday Ernest Baier, Germany, figure skater 1936 Olympics gold 1905 Birthday Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn, 1931 1904 Event Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa 1904 Birthday Richard Mohaupt, born in Breslau Germany, composer, Bucolica 1904 Birthday Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenber----dorff, Sr, near Hamburg, Germany 1903 Birthday Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner 1928 Olympics gold 1902 Birthday Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer, Zeus and Elidco 1902 Birthday Leni Riefenstahl, Helene Bertha Amalie, Germany, actress, Tiefland 1902 Birthday Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor, Wankel rotary-piston engine 1902 Birthday Max Rudolf, born in Frankfurt, Germany, conductor, Goteberg Symphony Orchestra 1902 Birthday Mark Lothar, born in Berlin, Germany, Lothar Hundertmark, composer 1902 Birthday Carl Jaffe, born in Hamburg, Germany, actor, 1st Man in Space, Escapement 1901 Birthday Marlene Dietrich, Berlin Germany, singer and actress, Blue Angel 1901 Death Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77 1901 Death Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60 1901 Birthday Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor, Freddy Unter Fremden 1901 Birthday Paul Verhoeven, born in Unna, Germany, director, 4th Man, Basic Instinct 1901 Birthday Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer, Die Zaubergeige 1901 Birthday Kurt Jooss, Wurtemburg, Germany, ballet choreographer 1901 Birthday Eric Voegelin, Germany, U.S. philosopher, Order and History 1900 Event Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany 1900 Event South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany 1900 Birthday Fritz Feld, Berlin Germany, actor, Jack Benny Show, At the Circus 1900 Event Telegraph use between Germany and U.S. begins 1900 Birthday Wilhelm Steinitz, Germany, 1st chess champ, 1866-1894 1900 Birthday Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages 1900 Birthday Erich Fromm, born in Frankfurt, Germany, psychologist, Sane Society 1900 Birthday Kurt J. Weill, born in Dessau, Germany, composer and Brecht collaborator, Mahogany 1900 Birthday Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner, Olympic-1928 1899 Birthday Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor and director, M 1899 Event U.S. and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them 1899 Birthday Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany 1898 Birthday Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher 1898 Birthday Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright, Mother Courage, composer 1897 Birthday Karl Marx, Germany, composer and conductor 1897 Birthday Paul Ben-Haim, Frankenburger, Munich Germany, Israeli composer 1897 Birthday Lucius du Bignon Clay, U.S., general, WW II, gov, West Germany 1897 Birthday Ludwig Erhard, chancellor of Germany, CDU 1895 Birthday Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor, Holiday in Havana 1895 Birthday Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist, Unter dem Zimbelstern 1895 Birthday Paul Hindemith, Hanau Germany, composer, Tutti Fantchen 1895 Event Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays 1895 Birthday Edit Angold, Germany, actor, Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel 1895 Birthday Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer, Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969 1895 Birthday Felix Bressart, born in Germany, actor, Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads 1895 Birthday Eugen Roth, born in Munich, Germany, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952 1894 Birthday Paul Dessau, Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter, Berlin, 1925-33 1894 Birthday Oskar Maria Graf, born in Berg, Germany, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels 1894 Event Karl Benz of Germany receives U.S. patent for gasoline-driven auto 1894 Birthday Hermann Oberth, born in Germany, founded modern astronautics, V2/Redstone 1894 Birthday Erich Romer, Germany, ice hockey player, Olympic-bronze-1932 1894 Birthday Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist, War Against War! 1893 Birthday Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor, Enemy Below, Longest Day 1893 Birthday Walter Ulbricht, president East Germany 1893 Birthday Allan W. Dulles, U.S. diplomat and CIA head 1953-61, Germany's Underground 1893 Birthday Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Calgary 1893 Birthday Hermann Goering, propoganda minister, Nazi Germany 1892 Birthday Lina Carstens, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, actress, Homeland, Broken Jug 1892 Event Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag 1892 Birthday Erich Auerbach, born in Berlin, Germany, German writer and educator 1892 Birthday Hans Albers, Hamburg Germany, actor, Blue Angel 1892 Event Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria forms 1892 Birthday Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor, Love Parade 1891 Birthday Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor, Nature of Music 1891 Birthday Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor, Diary of a Lost Girl 1891 Birthday Max Ernst, born in Germany, painter and sculptor, founded surrealism 1891 Birthday Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954 1890 Birthday Fritz Lang, Germany, director, M, Metropolis 1890 Birthday Claire Goll, born in Nuremberg, Germany, journalist, writer, poet, wrote 'Poemes d'amour', 'Poemes de la jalousie' 1890 Event Great Britain and Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty 1890 Event Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany 1890 Event Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria 1890 Birthday Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star, Deception 1889 Birthday Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist, Being and Time 1889 Event Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) 1889 Birthday Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany 1889 Birthday Adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany, 1936-45 1889 Birthday Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, genocidal leader of Germany 1889 Birthday Guido Kisch, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. historian, Jews in medieval Germany 1889 Birthday Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor, Haunted Castle 1888 Birthday Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Cologne Germany, actor, Metropolis, Spies 1888 Birthday Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist, Nobel 1935 1888 Event Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany 1888 Birthday Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano, Fidello 1887 Birthday Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement 1887 Birthday Georg Heym, born in Hirschberg, Germany, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style 1887 Birthday Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King' 1887 Event Germany, Austria-Hungary and France end Triple Alliance 1887 Death Multatuli, writer, named most important Dutch writer of all time, 2002, Society for Dutch literature, dies in Ingelheim am Rhine, Germany 1886 Event Great Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East-Africa 1886 Birthday Jean Arp, born in Strasbourg, Germany, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich 1886 Event In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile 1886 Birthday Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist 1886 Birthday Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist and writer, Great Germany 1886 Birthday Wilhelm Furtwangler, Berlin Germany, conductor/composer 1885 Event Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany) 1885 Birthday Werner Erich Josten, born in Elberfeld, Germany, composer, Jungle 1885 Birthday Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor and composer, Das Ziel 1885 Birthday Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe 1884 Birthday Sig Ruman, Hamburg Germany 1884 Birthday Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1884 Event Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) 1884 Birthday Emil Jannings, born in Germany, actor, Faust, Passion, Blue Angel 1884 Birthday Werner Krauss, born in Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Joyless Street 1884 Birthday Otto Meyerhof, Germany, psychologist/biochemist, Nobel-1922 1884 Birthday Wilhelm Backhaus, born in Leipzig, Germany, pianist, Rubinstein 1905 1884 Birthday Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist, indians 1884 Birthday Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter 1883 Birthday Carl Oscar Ahues, Germany, International Chess Master, 1950 1883 Event Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty 1883 Birthday Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect, Bauhaus school of design 1883 Event Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany 1883 Birthday Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher 1882 Birthday Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954 1882 Event 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) 1882 Event Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance 1881 Death Julius FA Bahnsen, Germany philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51 1881 Event 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany 1881 Birthday Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher, Nobel '53 1880 Birthday Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff, "July 20th plot" 1880 Birthday Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher, Decline of West 1879 Event Germany and Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant 1879 Birthday Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921 1879 Birthday Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect 1876 Birthday Bruno Walter, B. W. Schlesinger, Berlin Germany, conductor, New York Phil 1876 Birthday Hans Bethge, born in Dessau, Germany, writer, short stories, essays, plays, poetry on love, nature, works include, 'Agyptische Reise' 'Egyptian Journey' 1876 Birthday Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany, BRD, 1949 1875 Birthday Frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor, King Kong, Son of Kong 1875 Birthday Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist, Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929 1875 Birthday Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist, father of aerodynamics 1875 Birthday Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies 1874 Birthday Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator, Essay on Man 1874 Birthday Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist, Stark effect, Nobel 1919 1873 Birthday Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician, Nobel-1936 1873 Birthday Jakob Wassermann, born in Germany, novelist, My Life as German and Jew 1872 Birthday Frederick A Stock, Julich, Germany, conductor, Theodore Thomas Orchestra 1871 Event Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France and Germany 1871 Birthday Heinrich Mann, born in Germany, novelist/essayist, Blue Angel, ; bros of Thomas 1868 Birthday Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion, 1894-21 1868 Birthday Stefan George, born in Germany, lyric poet, Algabal 1867 Birthday Wilhelm Groener, Germany, general 1867 Birthday Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor, Foreign Correspondant 1867 Birthday Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor, Bauernkrieg 1866 Birthday Josef Swickard, born in Coblenz, Germany, actor, Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities 1866 Birthday Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, born in Elbingerode, Germany, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa' 1866 Birthday Emil Strauss, Germany, writer, Naked Man 1865 Birthday Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend' 1865 Event Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany 1865 Birthday Charles Proteus Steinmetz, born in Germany, experiment with AC electricity 1865 Birthday Erich Ludendorff, general, Germany 1865 Birthday Richard Zsigmondy, born in Germany, chemist, Nobel-1925 1865 Birthday Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl 1864 Birthday Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist, Nobel 1911 1864 Birthday Alois Alzheimer, born in Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist, Alzheimer Disease 1864 Birthday Richard Strauss, born in Munich, Germany, composer, 'Don Quixote' and 'Metamorphosis' 1863 Event Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality 1863 Birthday Paul Felix Weingartner, born in Germany, conductor, Zara, Dalmatia 1863 Birthday Arno Holz, born in Germany, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus' 1863 Birthday Hugo Kaun, born in Berlin, Germany, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works 1862 Birthday Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author, Before Dawn-Nobel 1912 1859 Birthday Edmund Husserl, born in Germany, philosopher, founded Phenomenology 1854 Birthday Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer, Parisfal 1854 Birthday Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor, linotype 1854 Death Karl Adolph von Basedow, East Germany (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55 1854 Birthday Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony 1854 Birthday Paul Ehrlich, born in Germany, bacteriologist, Nobel-1908 1853 Birthday Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909 1851 Birthday Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor, flat phonograph record 1850 Birthday Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist 1850 Event Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany 1850 Birthday Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy, Nobel 1909 1850 Birthday Isaac L. Rice, Germany, namesake of Columbia University's Rice stadium 1849 Birthday Friedrich von Bernhardi, Germany historian, Germany and the Next War 1849 Birthday Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization 1848 Birthday Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician, Begriffsschrift 1847 Birthday Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist, Nobel 1910 1846 Birthday Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright, Kohinoor 1846 Birthday Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher, Nobel 1908 1845 Birthday Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays, Nobel 1901 1844 Birthday Friedrich Nietzsche, born in Germany, philosopher 1843 Death Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany 1842 Event City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) 1842 Birthday Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company 1840 Birthday Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia 1840 Birthday Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs 1840 Birthday Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist, Carl Zeiss Optics Company 1839 Birthday Hans Thoma, born in Bernau, Germany, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum 1838 Birthday Max Bruch, Koln, Cologne, Germany, composer 1835 Birthday Martin Kahler, Germany, theologist 1834 Birthday Gottlieb Daimler, born in Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle 1834 Birthday Felix Dahn, born in Hamburg, Germany, writer, wrote 'Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples' 1833 Birthday Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer, enjoys a good lullaby 1832 Death Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany 1831 Birthday J. W. Richard Dedekind, Germany mathematician, Nature and Meaning of Numbers 1831 Birthday Joseph Joachim, born in Kittsee, Germany, violinist, Hungarian Concerto 1830 Birthday Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer, Nobel 1910 1830 Birthday Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter, US landscapes 1826 Death Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66 1826 Birthday Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist, Ralph Waldo Emerson 1825 Death Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Romantic, wrote 'Quintus Fixlein', 'Schmelzles Reise', dies at 62, in Bayreuth, Germany 1822 Birthday Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist, thermodynamics 1821 Birthday Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer, Central Africa 1820 Birthday Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator 1819 Birthday Louise Otto, Germany, author and feminist 1817 Birthday Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist 1816 Event Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany 1816 Birthday Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician 1815 Birthday Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician, theory of functions 1815 Birthday Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor, 1866 - 1890 1813 Birthday Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer, Ring, Flying Dutchman 1813 Birthday Matthias Keller, born in Ulm, Germany, hymm writer, O Farther un High 1812 Event Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon 1811 Birthday Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist, Bunsen Burner 1810 Birthday Robert A. Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer, Fantastiestucke 1809 Birthday Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist 1808 Birthday David F Strauss, Germany, theologist, Jesus' Life 1805 Birthday Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist 1804 Birthday Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer, Protoghesi 1801 Birthday Christian Dietrich Grabbe, born in Detmold, Germany, writer, dramatist, anti-Semite, idolized by the Nazis, works include, 'Hannibal', 1835 1801 Birthday Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books 1801 Death Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28 1797 Birthday Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist, Schubert, Liszt 1797 Birthday Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon map 1795 Birthday Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia, 1840 - 1861, Germany, 1849 - 1861 1793 Birthday Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers 1791 Birthday Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer, Golt Und Die Natur 1788 Birthday Friedrich Ruckert, born in Schweinfurt, Germany, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages 1788 Birthday Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher, Great Pessimist 1787 Birthday Joseph von Fraunhofer, born in Germany, physicist, studied Sun's spectrum 1786 Birthday Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer, Der Freischutz 1786 Birthday Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller, Grimm's Fairy Tales 1785 Birthday Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, librarian, fairy tale collector 1784 Birthday Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, born in Germany, violin virtuoso and composer, Faust 1781 Death Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany 1777 Birthday Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet, Penthesilea 1776 Birthday Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist 1775 Birthday Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher, Views on Christianity 1773 Death Jan Zach, composer, organist, violinist, composed Baroque and classical music, dies at 73 in Ellwangen, Germany 1772 Birthday Novalis, born in Oberwiederstedt, Germany, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night' 1772 Birthday Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic, Lucinde 1770 Birthday Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer, Ode to Joy 1770 Birthday Johann Friedrich Holderlin, born in Tubingen, Germany, poet, Der Rhein 1763 Birthday John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in U.S., banker/fur trader 1763 Birthday Jean Paul, born in Wunsiedel, Germany, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Romantic, wrote 'Quintus Fixlein', 'Schmelzles Reise' 1763 Birthday Johann Gottfried Seume, born in Poserna, Germany, writer, lyric poet, wrote 'Mein Sommer in Jahr' 1805, 'Spaziergang nach Syrakus' 1803 1762 Birthday Christian A. Vulpius, Germany, writer, Rinaldo Rinaldini 1759 Birthday Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist, Ode to Joy 1750 Birthday Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer 1740 Birthday Matthias Claudius, born in Reinfeld, Germany, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert 1735 Event 1st U.S. Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany 1729 Birthday Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, born in Kamenz, Germany, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature 1728 Birthday Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar, 1762, husband of Catherine 1724 Birthday Immanuel Kant, born in Konigsberg, Germany, philosopher, Critique of Pure Reason 1711 Death Jozef I, Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1705-11), dies at about 32 1704 Event French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany 1701 Event Germany, England and Netherlands sign anti-French covenant 1699 Event Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany 1697 Event Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War 1690 Event Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany 1686 Event Germany, Sweden and Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg 1685 Birthday Johann Sebastian Bach, born in Eisenach Germany, composer, Matthaus-Passion 1685 Birthday George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer, Messiah 1684 Birthday Johann Gottfried Walther, Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer 1684 Event Spain and Germany sign cease fire with France 1683 Event 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord 1681 Birthday Johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer 1681 Birthday Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer 1656 Event Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden 1653 Birthday Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician, Frederick of Prussia 1622 Event Germany and Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg 1614 Event Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany 1612 Death Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59 1607 Birthday Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, Nurnberg Germany, poet, Poetischer Trichter 1604 Birthday Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer, Arien oder Melodien 1597 Birthday Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" 1597 Event Germany throws out English sales people 1596 Event Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary and Germany 1587 Birthday Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist, Jephtha 1575 Birthday Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer 1571 Birthday Johann Kepler, born in Wurttemberg, Germany, astronomer, elliptical orbits 1571 Birthday Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer, Syntagma music 1564 Birthday David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer, discoved variable star 1556 Birthday Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer 1552 Birthday Rudolf II, of Habsburg, emperor of Germany, 1576-1612 1544 Event Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy 1528 Death Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56 1527 Event University of Marburg (Germany) founded 1524 Event Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest 1519 Birthday Henry II, King of Germany, 1547 - 1559 1511 Birthday Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician, calculated planetary table 1511 Event Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss 1510 Event Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany 1508 Death Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, Germany viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41 1501 Birthday Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist, History of Plants 1498 Birthday Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist 1494 Birthday Georgius Agricola, born in Germany, mineralogist, De Re Metallica 1492 Event 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany 1483 Birthday Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism 1471 Birthday Albrecht Durer, Nurnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker 1439 Death Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42 1438 Event Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany 1430 Event Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany 1415 Death Jan Hus, burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany 1397 Birthday Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany 1370 Event Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania 1368 Birthday Sigismund, Nurnberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor, 1410-37 1356 Death Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies 1349 Event Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred 1349 Event Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 1349 Event Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism 1349 Event Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated 1349 Event Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) 1349 Event 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany 1349 Event Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred 1298 Event Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered 1298 Event Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany 1298 Event Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated 1298 Event Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany 1291 Death Rudolf I, King of Germany and Holy Roman Empire, dies 1285 Event 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire 1264 Event Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany 1241 Event 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany 1198 Event Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany 1125 Event Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany 1096 Event 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany 1083 Event Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St. Peter's Cathedral 1039 Death Conrad II the Salian, King/Emperor of Germany (1024/27-39), dies at 49 936 Event Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany 928 Death Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48 89 Event Governor Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome 13 Event Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany
