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January 1
- 1652 – The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina is founded
- 1894 – Death of physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
- 1900 – The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch becomes effective
- 2002 – Introduction of Euro coins and banknotes
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January 2
- 1822 – Birth of physicist Rudolf Clausius
- 1843 – Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman premieres in Dresden
- 1870 – Birth of sculptor Ernst Barlach
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January 3
- 1719 – Birth of Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz
- 1887 – Birth of expressionist painter August Macke
- 1969 – Birth of Formula One driver Michael Schumacher
- 1988 – Death of poet Rose Ausländer
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January 4
- 1785 – Birth of linguist and philologist Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm
- 1919 – Death of politician Georg von Hertling
- 1940 – Birth of architect Helmut Jahn
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January 5
- 1846 – Birth of philosopher Rudolf Christoph Eucken, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1876 – Birth of politician Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany 1949-1963
- 1970 – Death of physicist Max Born, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics
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January 6
- 1205 – Philip of Swabia is crowned King of the Germans for the second time
- 1486 – Birth of composer Martin Agricola
- 1525 – Birth of reformer Caspar Peucer
- 1870 – Birth of Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of the Weimar Republic 1919-1920
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January 7
- 1706 – Birth of publisher Johann Heinrich Zedler
- 1831 – Birth of general post director Heinrich von Stephan, founder of the Universal Postal Union
- 1834 – Birth of scientist Johann Philipp Reis, inventor of the Reis telephone
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January 8
- 1557 – Death of Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
- 1632 – Birth of jurist and historian Samuel von Pufendorf
- 1794 – Death of jurist and social theorist Justus Möser
- 1891 – Birth of physicist Walther Bothe, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1904 – Birth of Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler
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January 9
- 1890 – Birth of journalist Kurt Tucholsky
- 1897 – Birth of philosopher Karl Löwith
- 1908 – Death of artist Wilhelm Busch, best known for Max and Moritz
- 1929 – Birth of dramatist Heiner Müller
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January 10
- 1715 – Birth of poet and theologian Christian August Crusius
- 1721 – Birth of scholar Johann Philipp Baratier
- 1794 – Death of scientist and revolutionary Georg Forster
- 1797 – Birth of poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
- 1812 – Birth of architect Georg Hermann Nicolai
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January 11
- 1852 – Birth of politician Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of the Weimar Republic 1920-1921
- 1923 – The Occupation of the Ruhr starts with a French invasion of the Ruhr Area
- 1941 – Death of chess player Emanuel Lasker
- 2017 – The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg is officially inaugurated
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January 12
- 1893 – Birth of Nazi politician and ideologist Alfred Rosenberg
- 1909 – Death of mathematician Hermann Minkowski
- 1919 – The Spartacist uprising is suppressed
- 1959 – Birth of Blixa Bargeld, singer of Einstürzende Neubauten
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January 13
- 1635 – Birth of theologian Philipp Jakob Spener, known as the "Father of Pietism"
- 1775 – Death of theologian Johann Georg Walch
- 1782 – Friedrich Schiller's drama Die Räuber premieres in Mannheim
- 1935 – A plebiscite in the Saar area approves accession to Nazi Germany
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January 14
- 1477 – Birth of Hermann of Wied, Archbishop of Cologne 1515-1546
- 1892 – Birth of theologian Martin Niemöller
- 1905 – Death of physicist Ernst Karl Abbe
- 2005 – Death of fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer
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January 15
- 1807 – Birth of zoologist and entomologist Hermann Burmeister
- 1863 – Birth of politician Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of the Weimar Republic
- 1919 – Revolutionaries Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are murdered by Freikorps soldiers
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January 16
- 1477 – Birth of cartographer Johannes Schöner, who died on the same day in 1547
- 1838 – Birth of philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano
- 1931 – Birth of politician Johannes Rau, President of Germany 1999-2004
- 1940 – Birth of politician Franz Müntefering
- 1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into the Führerbunker
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January 17
- 1463 – Birth of Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, known as the Wise
- 1484 – Birth of humanist George Spalatin
- 1737 – Death of architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, whose most famous work is the Zwinger in Dresden
- 1789 – Birth of theologian August Neander
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January 18
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- 1701 – Frederick I is crowned King in Prussia
- 1871 – William I is crowned German Emperor in the Palace of Versailles
- 1914 – Birth of author Arno Schmidt
- 1919 – The Paris Peace Conference opens to negotiate peace in the aftermath of World War I
- 1995 – Death of biochemist Adolf Butenandt, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sex hormones
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January 19
- 1576 – Death of meistersinger Hans Sachs
- 1863 – Birth of economist and sociologist Werner Sombart
- 1874 – Death of poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who wrote Das Lied der Deutschen
- 1919 – Elections for the constitutive assembly drafting the Weimar Constitution take place, the first election in Germany with full women's suffrage
- 1923 – Birth of Markus Wolf, head of the foreign intelligence section Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung of the GDR
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January 20
- 1488 – Birth of cartographer and cosmographer Sebastian Münster
- 1499 – Birth of humanist Sebastian Franck
- 1586 – Birth of composer Johann Hermann Schein
- 1783 – Birth of cellist and composer Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer
- 1942 – The Wannsee Conference meets and decides to implement the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question", starting the most deadly phase of the Holocaust
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January 21
- 1710 – Death of mystic Johann Georg Gichtel
- 1815 – Death of poet Matthias Claudius
- 1831 – Death of poet Ludwig Achim von Arnim
- 1851 – Death of composer Albert Lortzing
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January 22
- 1521 – The Diet of Worms is opened by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1536 – Bernhard Knipperdolling and other anabaptist leaders are tortured and executed in Münster
- 1729 – Birth of writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- 1900 – Birth of singer and actor Ernst Busch
- 1963 – Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle sign the Élysée Treaty on Franco-German cooperation
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January 23
- 1793 – Prussia and Russia sign a treaty confirming the Second Partition of Poland
- 1840 – Birth of scientist and entrepreneur Ernst Abbe
- 1843 – Death of writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
- 1862 – Birth of mathematician David Hilbert
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January 24
- 1002 – Death of Holy Roman Emperor Otto III
- 1679 – Birth of philosopher Christian Wolff
- 1712 – Birth of Prussian King Frederick the Great
- 1776 – Birth of author E. T. A. Hoffmann
- 2000 – Launch of news channel N24
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January 25
- 1586 – Death of artist Lucas Cranach the Younger
- 1743 – Birth of philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- 1886 – Birth of conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
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January 26
- 1781 – Birth of poet Ludwig Achim von Arnim
- 1891 – Death of inventor Nicolaus Otto, known for his improvement of internal combustion engines
- 1912 – First performance of Der Rosenkavalier, a comic opera by Richard Strauss
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January 27
- 1687 – Birth of architect Balthasar Neumann, known for the Würzburg Residence
- 1814 – Death of philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- 1859 – Birth of William II, German Emperor
- 1972 – Death of mathematician Richard Courant
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January 28
- 814 – Death of emperor Charlemagne
- 1077 – The excommunication of Henry IV is lifted after the Walk to Canossa
- 1540 – Birth of mathematician Ludolph van Ceulen, who calculated the first 35 digits of Pi
- 1755 – Birth of physician and anatomist Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, discoverer of the macula in the human eye
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January 29
- 1773 – Birth of mineralogist Friedrich Mohs
- 1810 – Birth of mathematician Ernst Kummer
- 1934 – Death of chemist Fritz Haber, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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January 30
- 1697 – Birth of flautist Johann Joachim Quantz
- 1933 – Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany in the Machtergreifung
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January 31
- 1665 – Death of theologian Johannes Clauberg
- 1884 – Birth of physicist Rudolf Mössbauer, winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1884 – Birth of Theodor Heuss, President of Germany 1949-1959
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February 1
- 1411 – The Peace of Thorn ends the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
- 1733 – Death of Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony (pictured)
- 1957 – First run of the prototype of the Wankel engine
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February 2
- 1700 – Birth of author and critic Johann Christoph Gottsched (pictured)
- 1943 – The Battle of Stalingrad ends with German surrender
- 1945 – Execution of politician Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
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February 3
- 1468 – Death of printer Johannes Gutenberg
- 1809 – Birth of composer Felix Mendelssohn (pictured)
- 1926 – Birth of politician Hans-Jochen Vogel
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February 4
- 856 – Death of Rabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz
- 1708 – Bach's cantata Gott ist mein König is performed for the first time
- 1871 – Birth of Friedrich Ebert (pictured), first president of the Weimar Republic
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February 5
- 1705 – Death of theologian Philipp Jakob Spener (pictured), known as the "Father of Pietism"
- 1808 – Birth of painter Carl Spitzweg
- 1949 – Birth of politician Kurt Beck
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February 6
- 1887 – Birth of Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne
- 1899 – Death of Leo von Caprivi (pictured), Chancellor of Germany 1890-1894
- 1912 – Birth of Eva Braun, mistress of Adolf Hitler
- 1936 – The 1936 Winter Olympics open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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February 7
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- 1626 – Death of William V, Duke of Bavaria
- 1825 – Birth of zoologist Karl Möbius (pictured)
- 1882 – Berlin Stadtbahn opens for regional traffic
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February 8
- 1876 – Birth of expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (pictured)
- 1880 – Birth of expressionist painter Franz Marc
- 1950 – The Stasi is founded as secret police of East Germany
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February 9
- 1781 – Birth of naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (pictured)
- 1834 – Birth of author Felix Dahn
- 1905 – Death of artist Adolph Menzel
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February 10
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- 1898 – Birth of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht
- 1923 – Death of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (pictured), winner of the first Nobel Prize in Physics
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February 11
- 1141 – Death of mystic Hugh of St Victor
- 1816 – Birth of printer and publisher Ernst Litfaß
- 1869 – Birth of poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler (pictured)
- 1919 – Friedrich Ebert is elected President of Germany
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February 12
- 1777 – Birth of writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (pictured)
- 1804 – Death of philosopher Immanuel Kant
- 1916 – Death of mathematician Richard Dedekind
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February 13
- 1805 – Birth of mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (pictured)
- 1883 – Death of composer Richard Wagner
- 1945 – The bombing of Dresden starts
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February 14
- 1780 – Birth of scientist Johann Friedrich Naumann, considered the founder of ornithology
- 1895 – Birth of philosopher and sociologist Max Horkheimer
- 1943 – Death of mathematician David Hilbert (pictured)
- 1981 – The first episode of Wetten, dass..? is broadcast
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February 15
- 1637 – Death of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1781 – Death of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (pictured)
- 1909 – Birth of artist HAP Grieshaber
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February 16
- 1497 – Birth of theologian Philip Melanchthon (pictured), a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation
- 1821 – Birth of explorer Heinrich Barth
- 1826 – Birth of poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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February 17
- 1699 – Birth of painter and architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (pictured)
- 1752 – Birth of author Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
- 1888 – Birth of physicist Otto Stern, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics
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February 18
- 1546 – Death of reformer Martin Luther (pictured)
- 1856 – Death of poet Heinrich Heine
- 1867 – Birth of writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler
- 1943 – Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech
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February 19
- 1660 – Birth of physician Friedrich Hoffmann
- 1837 – Birth of dramatist and revolutionary Georg Büchner
- 1877 – Birth of expressionist painter Gabriele Münter (pictured)
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February 20
- 1751 – Birth of poet and translator Johann Heinrich Voß (pictured), best known for his translation of Homer's Odyssey
- 1762 – Death of astronomer Tobias Mayer, famous for his studies of the Moon
- 1909 – Birth of actor and comedian Heinz Erhardt
- 1937 – Birth of biochemist Robert Huber, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1972 – Death of physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
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February 21
- 1484 - Birth of elector Joachim I of Brandenburg
- 1880 - Birth of Waldemar Bonsels (pictured), author of Maya the Bee
- 1916 - The Battle of Verdun begins
- 1919 - Assassination of politician Kurt Eisner, the first minister-president of Bavaria
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February 22
- 1840 - Birth of Social democratic politician August Bebel
- 1857 - Birth of physicist Heinrich Hertz (pictured), discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
- 1902 - Birth of physicist Fritz Strassmann, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
- 1943 - White Rose resistance fighters Christoph Probst and Hans and Sophie Scholl are tried and executed
- 1972 - Birth of speed skater Claudia Pechstein, winner of five olympic gold medals
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February 23
- 1855 - Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- 1893 - Rudolf Diesel is granted a patent for the Diesel engine
- 1899 - Birth of author Erich Kästner (pictured), known for his children's books such as Lottie and Lisa
- 1945 - Birth of Georg Milbradt, minister-president of Saxony
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February 24
- 1622 - Birth of theologian and philosopher Johannes Clauberg
- 1786 - Birth of philologist Wilhelm Grimm, known for Deutsches Wörterbuch and Grimm's Fairy Tales
- 1799 - Death of scientist and aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (pictured)
- 1920 - The NSDAP is created by the renaming of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
- 2005 - Death of former minister of state Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski
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February 25
- 1591 - Birth of Friedrich von Spee, Jesuit writer who opposed the witch trials
- 1842 - Birth of Karl May (pictured), best-selling German author of Winnetou
- 1913 - Birth of Gert Fröbe, the actor who played Goldfinger
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February 26
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- 1829 - Death of painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (pictured), known for his portrait of Goethe
- 1931 - Death of Otto Wallach, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1924 - The trial against Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff for the Beer Hall putsch begins
- 1935 - The Luftwaffe is re-founded in a violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
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February 27
- 1531 - Establishment of the Schmalkaldic League, a defensive league of protestant princes
- 1900 - Foundation of FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club
- 1905 - Inauguration of Berlin Cathedral (pictured)
- 1933 - The Reichstag burns down in the Reichstag fire
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February 28
- 1746 - Death of historian Hermann von der Hardt
- 1833 - Birth of field marshal Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (pictured), strategist of the Schlieffen Plan
- 1900 - Birth of sailplane designer Wolf Hirth
- 1944 - Birth of Sepp Maier, goalkeeper of the German national football team in the Football World Cup 1974
- 2002 - Last day on which the German Mark is accepted as a form of payment
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February 29
- 1528 - Birth of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (pictured), a leader of the German Counter-Reformation
- 1820 - Death of literary critic and historian Johann Joachim Eschenburg
- 1868 - Death of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, whose 1810 wedding was the occasion of the first Oktoberfest
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March 1
- 1547 - Birth of scholastic philosopher Rudolph Goclenius, inventor of the terms ontology and psychology
- 1768 - Death of philosopher Hermann Samuel Reimarus
- 1858 - Birth of sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (pictured)
- 1933 - Alleged birth of member of parliament Jakob Maria Mierscheid (SPD)
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March 2
- 1830 - Death of physician Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, discoverer of the macula in the eye
- 1840 - Death of astronomer Heinrich Olbers, after whom Olbers' paradox is named
- 1900 - Birth of composer Kurt Weill (pictured)
- 1940 - Birth of Lothar de Maizière, the last Prime Minister of the GDR
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March 3
- 1918 - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (pictured) is signed by Russia and the Central Powers
- 1845 - Birth of mathematician Georg Cantor, one of the founders of set theory
- 1871 - First election for the Reichstag of the German Empire
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March 4
- 1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
- 1793 - Birth of philologist and critic Karl Lachmann
- 1879 - Birth of Bernhard Kellermann (pictured), author of Der Tunnel
- 1936 - First flight of zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg, one of the two largest flying crafts every built
- 1941 - Death of pacifist Ludwig Quidde, recipient of the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize
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March 5
- 1871 - Birth of Socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (pictured), co-founder of the Spartacus League
- 1904 - Birth of Catholic theologian Karl Rahner
- 1815 - Death of physician Franz Mesmer
- 1922 - Premiere of F. W. Murnau's silent movie Nosferatu
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March 6
- 1459 - Birth of banker Jacob Fugger the Rich (pictured)
- 1787 - Birth of physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, discoverer of the Fraunhofer lines
- 1900 - Death of engineer Gottlieb Daimler, pioneer of the automobile
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March 7
- 1902 - Birth of actor and singer Heinz Rühmann
- 1940 - Birth of Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund leader Rudi Dutschke (pictured)
- 1945 - American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen and begin to cross the Rhine
- 1954 - Death of chemist Otto Diels, recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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March 8
- 1714 - Birth of composer Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
- 1879 - Birth of physicist Otto Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1917 - Death of aviation pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin (pictured)
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March 9
- 1276 - Augsburg (pictured) becomes an Imperial Free City
- 1758 - Birth of neuroanatomist Franz Joseph Gall
- 1930 - Kurt Weill's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is performed for the first time
- 1988 - Death of politician Kurt Georg Kiesinger, chancellor of Germany during the first grand coalition
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March 10
- 1772 - Birth of Romantic philosopher and poet Friedrich von Schlegel
- 1788 - Birth of poet and novelist Joseph von Eichendorff
- 1864 - Death of king Maximilian II of Bavaria (pictured)
- 1927 - Birth of soccer coach Jupp Derwall
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March 11
- 1405 - The city of Frankfurt buys the Römer (pictured) house to use as a city hall
- 1894 - Birth of Otto Grotewohl, first minister-president of the GDR
- 1907 - Birth of Kreisau Circle member Helmuth James von Moltke
- 1931 - Death of silent film director F. W. Murnau
- 1931 - Birth of children's book author Janosch
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March 12
- 1607 - Birth of hymn writer Paul Gerhardt (pictured)
- 1824 - Birth of physicist Gustav Kirchhoff
- 1938 - German troops occupy Austria in the Anschluss
- 1950- Death of writer Heinrich Mann
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March 13
- 1719 - Death of alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger (pictured)
- 1781 - Birth of neoclassicist architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel
- 1952 - Birth of composer Wolfgang Rihm
- 2002 - Death of philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer
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March 14
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- 1803 - Death of poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (pictured)
- 1854 - Birth of scientist Paul Ehrlich, recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his development of chemotherapy
- 1879 - Birth of physicist Albert Einstein
- 1883 - Death of philosopher and political theorist Karl Marx
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March 15
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- 1830 - Birth of writer Paul Heyse, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1821 - Birth of mathematician Eduard Heine
- 1900 - Death of mathematician Elwin Bruno Christoffel
- 1963 - Birth of football referee Markus Merk
- 1991 - Germany regains full sovereignty due to the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany
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March 16
- 1789 - Birth of physicist Georg Simon Ohm
- 1920 - Birth of Dorothea Binz, supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp
- 1920 - Birth of Traudl Junge, secretary of Adolf Hitler
- 1935 - Adolf Hitler introduces conscription in Germany to form the Wehrmacht
- 1945 - More than 90% of Würzburg is destroyed in an air raid
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March 17
- 1804 - Friedrich Schiller's drama Wilhelm Tell premieres in Weimar
- 1834 - Birth of engineer and inventor Gottlieb Daimler
- 1846 - Death of mathematician and astronomer Friedrich Bessel
- 1926 - Birth of writer Siegfried Lenz
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March 18
- 1733 - Birth of writer and bookseller Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
- 1813 - Birth of dramatist Christian Friedrich Hebbel
- 1858 - Birth of inventor Rudolf Diesel
- 1940 - Hitler and Mussolini meet on the Brenner Pass to publicly celebrate their pact
- 1990 - The first free elections to the Volkskammer are held in the German Democratic Republic
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March 19
- 1649 - Death of classical scholar and theologian Gerhard Johann Vossius
- 1849 - Birth of admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
- 1873 - Birth of composer and organist Max Reger
- 1937 - Birth of politician Egon Krenz, last leader of the German Democratic Republic
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler issues the Nero Decree, a scorched earth directive
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March 20
- 1239 - Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- 1770 - Birth of Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1890 - Otto von Bismarck resigns his office as Chancellor of Germany and is succeeded by Leo von Caprivi
- 1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his paper on the special theory of relativity
- 1931 - Death of former Chancellor Hermann Müller
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March 21
- 1685 - Birth of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1927 - Birth of politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Foreign Minister of Germany during the German reunification
- 1763 - Birth of poet Jean Paul
- 1751 - Death of publisher Johann Heinrich Zedler, publisher of the Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon encyclopedia
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March 22
- 1797 - Birth of Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (pictured)
- 1799 - Birth of astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
- 1832 - Death of writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1935 - The world's first regular television service, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, starts broadcasting
- 1937 - Birth of athlete Armin Hary, first man to run 100 m in 10.0 s
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March 23
- 1881 - Birth of chemist Hermann Staudinger, recipient of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1882 - Birth of mathematician Emmy Noether (pictured)
- 1900 - Birth of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm
- 1912 - Birth of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
- 1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany
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March 24
- 1490 - Birth of scientist Georg Agricola (pictured)
- 1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis
- 1927 - Birth of author Martin Walser
- 1955 - Death of politician Otto Gessler
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March 25
- 1699 - Birth of composer Johann Adolph Hasse
- 1798 - Birth of mathematician Christoph Gudermann
- 1801 - Death of Romantic author Friedrich von Hardenberg, known as Novalis
- 1957 - The Treaty of Rome is signed, establishing the European Economic Community
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March 26
- 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor
- 1827 - Death of Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1949 - Birth of writer Patrick Süskind, author of Perfume
- 1995 - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect
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March 27
- 1765 - Birth of philosopher and theologian Franz Xaver von Baader
- 1845 - Birth of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, recipient of the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physics
- 1847 - Birth of chemist Otto Wallach, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- 1871 - Birth of writer Heinrich Mann
- 1886 - Birth of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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March 28
- 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers asteroid 2 Pallas
- 1849 - The Frankfurt Parliament passes a constitution for Germany
- 1897 - Birth of football coach Sepp Herberger
- 1996 - Death of philosopher Hans Blumenberg
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March 29
- 1826 - Birth of politician Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the SPD
- 1895 - Birth of writer Ernst Jünger
- 1912 - Birth of test and glider pilot Hanna Reitsch
- 1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany
- 1982 - Death of composer Carl Orff, best known for Carmina Burana
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March 30
- 1559 - Death of mathematician Adam Ries
- 1864 - Birth of sociologist Franz Oppenheimer
- 1912 - Death of author Karl May
- 1984 - Death of theologian Karl Rahner
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March 31
- 1811 - Birth of chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
- 1819 - Birth of statesman Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany 1894-1900
- 1917 - Death of physician Emil Adolf von Behring, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1939 - Birth of film director Volker Schlöndorff
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April 1
- 1963 - The ZDF television channel starts broadcasting
- 1931 - Birth of author Rolf Hochhuth, known for his play The Deputy
- 1815 - Birth of statesman Otto von Bismarck, minister-president of Prussia and first Chancellor of Germany
- 2005 - Death of entertainer Harald Juhnke
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April 2
- 1647 - Birth of naturalist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian
- 1798 - Birth of poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, author of Das Lied der Deutschen
- 1891 - Birth of painter Max Ernst
- 1914 - Death of writer Paul Heyse
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April 3
- 1827 - Death of physicist Ernst Chladni, known for the Chladni patterns
- 1833 - The Frankfurter Wachensturm fails
- 1892 - Birth of mathematician Hans Rademacher
- 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler is granted a patent for his engine design.
- 1897 - Death of Romantic composer Johannes Brahms
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April 4
- 1785 - Birth of writer Bettina von Arnim
- 1854 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama Faust, Part 2 premieres in Hamburg
- 1870 - Death of scientist Heinrich Gustav Magnus
- 1932 - Death of chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1981 - Death of mathematician Carl Ludwig Siegel
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April 5
- 1877 - The Blohm & Voss shipbuilding company is founded
- 1908 - Germany's national football team plays its first game and loses 3-5 to Switzerland
- 1934 - Birth of judge and politician Roman Herzog, President of Germany 1994-1999
- 1978 - Birth of swimmer Franziska van Almsick
- 1986 - The bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in Berlin kills three and injures 230
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April 6
- 1878 - Birth of author Erich Mühsam
- 1884 - Death of poet Emanuel Geibel
- 1911 - Birth of biochemist Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1972 - Death of former President of Germany Heinrich Lübke
- 1980 - Germany observes Daylight saving time for the first time
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April 7
- 1724 - The Johannespassion by Johann Sebastian Bach is performed for the first time
- 1885 - Death of physiologist Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
- 1944 - Birth of politician Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany 1998-2005
- 1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback is assassinated by the Red Army Faction
- 1994 - Death of historian Golo Mann
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April 8
- 1835 - Death of Wilhelm von Humboldt, founder of Humboldt University
- 1859 - Birth of philosopher Edmund Husserl, known as the "father" of phenomenology
- 1897 - Death of Heinrich von Stephan, one of the founders of the Universal Postal Union
- 1992 - Death of literary scholar and philosopher Käte Hamburger
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April 9
- 1794 - Birth of Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute
- 1886 - Death of poet Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
- 1936 - Death of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies
- 1945 - Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp
- 1945 - Georg Elser, who had attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, is executed at Dachau concentration camp
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April 10
- 1651 - Birth of scientist Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
- 1807 - Death of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach
- 1883 - AEG is founded as Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität
- 1913 - Birth of writer Stefan Heym
- 1924 - Death of industrialist Hugo Stinnes
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April 11
- 1825 – Birth of politician Ferdinand Lassalle
- 1895 – Death of chemist Julius Lothar Meyer
- 1945 – Liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp
- 1949 – Birth of film producer Bernd Eichinger
- 1968 – Student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot and wounded in Berlin
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April 12
- 1928 – Birth of actor Hardy Krüger
- 1948 – Birth of politician Joschka Fischer, Federal Foreign Minister 1998–2005
- 1956 – Birth of singer and actor Herbert Grönemeyer
- 1990 – Lothar de Maizière becomes the first democratically elected minister-president of the GDR
- 1999 – Five people die in the first serious accident on the Schwebebahn Wuppertal in almost 100 years
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April 13
- 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
- 1784 - Friedrich Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe premieres in Frankfurt
- 1826 - Death of composer Franz Danzi
- 1945 - Death of philosopher Ernst Cassirer
- 1960 - Birth of football player and coach Rudi Völler
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April 14
- 972 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor marries Theophanu, niece of the Eastern Roman Emperor John I Tzimisces
- 1759 - Death of composer Georg Friedrich Händel
- 1783 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan der Weise premieres in Berlin
- 1868 - Birth of architect and designer Peter Behrens
- 1886 - Birth of philologist Ernst Robert Curtius
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April 15
- 1659 - Death of poet Simon Dach
- 1832 - Birth of artist and poet Wilhelm Busch, author of Max and Moritz
- 1874 - Birth of physicist Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics and supporter of the Deutsche Physik agenda
- 1920 - Birth of politician Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany 1984-1994
- 1945 - British forces liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
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April 16
- 1823 - Birth of mathematician Ferdinand Eisenstein
- 1886 - Birth of communist politician Ernst Thälmann
- 1922 - The Treaty of Rapallo is signed, re-establishing relations between Germany and Russia
- 1927 - Birth of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
- 1945 - The refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine, killing more than 6,000
- 1947 - Execution of Rudolf Höß, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp
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April 17
- 1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
- 1574 - Death of classical scholar Joachim Camerarius
- 1794 - Birth of botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
- 1870 - Birth of architect Max Berg, who built the Hala Ludowa in Wrocław
- 1899 - Death of mathematician Wilhelm Jordan
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April 18
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- 1567 - Death of adventurer Wilhelm von Grumbach
- 1873 - Death of chemist Justus von Liebig
- 1947 - British units attempt to destroy the island of Heligoland in a large explosion
- 1955 - Death of physicist Albert Einstein, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics
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April 19
- 1529 - In the Protestation at Speyer, a group of rulers and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms
- 1560 - Death of theologian Philip Melanchthon
- 1922 - Birth of World War II ace Erich Hartmann
- 1967 - Death of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany 1949–1963
- 2005 - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is elected Pope Benedict XVI
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April 20
- 1494 - Birth of Protestant reformer Johannes Agricola
- 1643 - Death of composer Christoph Demantius
- 1889 - Birth of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
- 1918 - Death of physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1998 - The terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution
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April 21
- 1488 - Birth of Imperial Knight and humanist Ulrich von Hutten
- 1864 - Birth of sociologist Max Weber
- 1900 - Birth of Nazi journalist Hans Fritzsche
- 1918 - The Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen is shot down
- 1946 - In the Soviet occupation zone, KPD and SPD are united to form the SED
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April 22
- 1401 - Capture of Klaus Störtebeker
- 1724 - Birth of philosopher Immanuel Kant
- 1915 - Germany becomes the first nation to use chemical weapons in the Second Battle of Ypres
- 1945 - Death of artist Käthe Kollwitz
- 1980 - Death of physicist Fritz Strassmann, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission
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April 23
- 1516 - The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law is decreed by William IV, Duke of Bavaria
- 1805 - Birth of philosopher Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz
- 1858 - Birth of physicist Max Planck, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1895 - Death of physician Carl Ludwig
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April 24
- 1889 - Birth of resistance fighter Johanna Kirchner
- 1918 - Birth of oceanographer and ecologist Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
- 1960 - Death of physicist Max von Laue, recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1964 - Death of bacteriologist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, who declined the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine under pressure of Nazi authorities
- 1974 - East German spy Günter Guillaume is arrested
- 1982 - Nicole becomes the first German candidate to win the Eurovision Song Contest
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April 25
- 1228 - Birth of king Conrad IV of Germany
- 1849 - Birth of mathematician Felix Klein
- 1945 - Elbe Day: Soviet and American troops meet near Torgau
- 1952 - Baden-Württemberg is founded by the merging of Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern
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April 26
- 1787 - Birth of poet Ludwig Uhland
- 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident
- 1933 - Establishment of the Gestapo as secret police of Nazi Germany
- 1951 - Death of physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (pictured)
- 2002 - 17 people die in the Erfurt spree killing
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April 27
- 1764 - Birth of publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta
- 1812 - Birth of composer Friedrich von Flotow
- 1921 - Birth of actor and TV show host Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
- 1972 - The constructive vote of no confidence against Willy Brandt fails
- 2003 - Death of theologian Dorothee Sölle
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April 28
- 1753 - Birth of Franz Karl Achard, discoverer of the production of sugar from sugar beets
- 1853 - Death of writer Ludwig Tieck
- 1858 - Death of physiologist Johannes Peter Müller
- 1908 - Birth of industrialist Oskar Schindler
- 1977 - Death of football player and manager Sepp Herberger
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April 29
- 1688 - Death of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, commonly known as the Great Elector (Großer Kurfürst)
- 1785 - Birth of inventor Karl Drais
- 1837 - Birth of merchant Hermann Tietz
- 1929 - Birth of author Walter Kempowski
- 1945 - Liberation of Dachau concentration camp
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April 30
- 1777 - Birth of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß
- 1865 - Birth of anarchist and historian Max Nettlau
- 1916 - Germany is the first country to switch to daylight saving time
- 1945 - Suicides of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
- 1991 - Production of the last Trabant car
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May 1
- 1218 - Birth of King Rudolph I of Germany
- 1776 - The Illuminati are founded by Adam Weishaupt
- 1915 - Birth of employer representative Hanns Martin Schleyer, kidnapped by the RAF in the German Autumn
- 1945 - Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda murder their children and commit suicide
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May 2
- 1602 - Birth of Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher
- 1772 - Birth of romantic author Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
- 1886 - Birth of author Gottfried Benn
- 1892 - Birth of Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen
- 1945 - Capitulation of German forces in Berlin after the Battle of Berlin
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May 3
- 1761 - Birth of dramatist August von Kotzebue (pictured)
- 1793 - Death of theologian Martin Gerbert
- 1849 - Birth of Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany 1900-1909
- 1907 - Death of merchant Hermann Tietz
- 1979 - Premiere of Volker Schlöndorff's film adaptation of The Tin Drum
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May 4
- 1772 - Birth of encyclopedia publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
- 1900 - 1. FC Nürnberg is founded
- 1904 - FC Schalke 04 is founded in Gelsenkirchen
- 1938 - Death of pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1956 - Birth of high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth
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May 5
- 1818 - Birth of philosopher Karl Marx
- 1859 - Death of mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- 1892 - Death of chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann
- 1944 - Death of automobile pioneer Bertha Benz, commemorated by a Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
- 1955 - West Germany becomes sovereign
- 1964 - Birth of high jump athlete Heike Henkel
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May 6
- 1796 - Death of writer Adolf Freiherr Knigge, known for his book Über den Umgang mit Menschen
- 1871 - Birth of poet Christian Morgenstern
- 1880 - Birth of painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- 1937 - 36 people die in the Hindenburg disaster
- 1992 - Death of actress Marlene Dietrich
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May 7
- 1523 - Death of knight Franz von Sickingen
- 1617 - Death of astronomer David Fabricius
- 1833 - Birth of composer Johannes Brahms
- 1915 - A German submarine sinks the RMS Lusitania, about 1200 people die
- 1998 - The merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corporation to form DaimlerChrysler is announced
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May 8
- 1521 - Birth of theologian Petrus Canisius
- 1928 - Birth of politician Manfred Gerlach, Staatsratsvorsitzender der DDR 1989-1990
- 1936 - Death of historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler
- 1945 - Victory in Europe Day: The unconditional surrender of German forces ends World War II in Europe
- 1976 - Death of Red Army Faction terrorist Ulrike Meinhof
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May 9
- 1805 - Death of poet Friedrich Schiller
- 1837 - Birth of engineer and industrialist Adam Opel
- 1907 - Birth of Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach
- 1921 - Birth of resistance fighter Sophie Scholl
- 1955 - West Germany joins the NATO
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May 10
- 1521 - Death of humanist and satirist Sebastian Brant, author of the Ship of Fools
- 1566 - Death of botanist Leonhart Fuchs
- 1760 - Birth of poet Johann Peter Hebel
- 1878 - Birth of politician Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany 1923 and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1933 - Nazis and like-minded professors and students start the book burning on the Opernplatz in Berlin
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May 11
- 1720 – Birth of Baron von Münchhausen
- 1752 – Birth of anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- 1901 – Birth of poet Rose Ausländer
- 1916 – Death of composer Max Reger
- 1916 – Death of astronomer and physicist Karl Schwarzschild
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May 12
- 1885 – Death of composer Ferdinand Hiller
- 1900 – Birth of actress Helene Weigel
- 1921 – Birth of artist Joseph Beuys
- 1949 – The Berlin Blockade ends shortly after midnight
- 1970 – Death of writer Nelly Sachs, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature
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May 13
- 1885 – Death of physician Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
- 1905 – Birth of physicist Kurt Diebner
- 1934 – Birth of legal scholar Peter Häberle
- 1947 – Birth of Irmgard Möller, member of the Red Army Faction
- 1965 – The Bundesgerichtshof refuses to open a trial against Rudolf Augstein, ending the Spiegel scandal
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May 14
- 1832 – Birth of mathematician Rudolf Lipschitz
- 1847 – Death of pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn
- 1867 – Birth of politician Kurt Eisner
- 1927 – The SS Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg
- 1970 – Andreas Baader escapes from custody in one of the founding acts of the Red Army Faction
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May 15
- 1381 – Death of robber baron Eppelein von Gailingen
- 1874 – Birth of Richard Schirrmann, founder of the first youth hostel
- 1944 – Birth of sociologist Ulrich Beck
- 1955 – Birth of Green Party politician Claudia Roth
- 1991 – Death of mathematician Andreas Floer
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May 16
- 1925 – Birth of illustrator and caricaturist Hannes Hegen, creator of Mosaik
- 1936 – Birth of Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz and chairman of the Congregation of the German Bishops
- 1950 – Birth of physicist Johannes Georg Bednorz, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1974 – Helmut Schmidt is elected Chancellor of Germany
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May 17
- 1587 – Death of Gotthard Kettler, last master of the Livonian Order
- 1706 – Birth of historian Andreas Felix von Oefele
- 1821 – Birth of naturopathist Sebastian Kneipp
- 1946 – Birth of musician Udo Lindenberg
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May 18
- 1733 – Death of organist Georg Böhm
- 1848 – First meeting of the Frankfurt Parliament in the Paulskirche
- 1883 – Birth of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus
- 1941 – Death of economist and sociologist Werner Sombart
- 1950 – Birth of actor and show host Thomas Gottschalk
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May 19
- 1762 – Birth of philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- 1891 – Birth of World War I flying ace Oswald Boelcke
- 1935 – The first section of the Autobahn system is opened
- 1993 – Heide Simonis becomes minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein as the first woman to hold such a post
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May 20
- 1820 – Execution of radical liberal student Karl Ludwig Sand, the murderer of August von Kotzebue
- 1860 – Birth of chemist Eduard Buchner, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1896 – Death of pianist Clara Schumann
- 1921 – Birth of author and playwright Wolfgang Borchert
- 1961 – Death of World War II ace Josef Priller
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May 21
- 996 – Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
- 1471 – Birth of artist Albrecht Dürer
- 1873 – Birth of neurologist Hans Berger, inventor of electroencephalography
- 1936 – Birth of biologist Günter Blobel, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1945 – Birth of astronaut Ernst Messerschmid
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May 22
- 1813 – Birth of composer Richard Wagner
- 1868 – Death of mathematician and physicist Julius Plücker
- 1880 – Death of politician Heinrich von Gagern
- 1939 – The Pact of Steel between Italy and Germany is signed
- 1939 – Death of author Ernst Toller
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May 23
- 1848 – Birth of aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal
- 1873 – Birth of rabbi Leo Baeck
- 1900 – Birth of war criminal Hans Frank, Governor-General of occupied Poland
- 1949 – Proclamation of the Basic Law and founding of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1965 – Birth of film director Tom Tykwer
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May 24
- 1686 – Birth of physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit
- 1734 – Death of chemist Georg Ernst Stahl
- 1810 – Birth of rabbi Abraham Geiger
- 1909 – Death of explorer and scientist Georg von Neumayer
- 1945 – Birth of New Forum founder Bärbel Bohley
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May 25
- 1595 – Death of poet and critic Valens Acidalius
- 1848 – Death of poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
- 1882 – Birth of diplomat Ernst von Weizsäcker
- 1988 – Death of physicist Ernst Ruska, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
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May 26
- 1700 – Birth of social reformer and bishop Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf
- 1894 – Emanuel Lasker becomes World Chess Champion, a title that he will hold for 27 years
- 1923 – Birth of actor Horst Tappert, best known as Derrick
- 1976 – Death of philosopher Martin Heidegger
- 1997 – Death of scientist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne
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May 27
- 1525 – Death of Thomas Müntzer, rebel leader during the German Peasants' War
- 1576 – Birth of scholar Caspar Schoppe
- 1676 – Death of hymn writer Paul Gerhardt
- 1756 – Birth of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
- 1928 – Death of mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies
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May 28
- 1862 – Birth of architect Theodor Fischer
- 1869 – Death of theologian Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
- 1987 – Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow
- 1925 – Birth of baritone singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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May 29
- 1794 – Birth of astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler
- 1880 – Birth of historian Oswald Spengler, best known for The Decline of the West
- 1933 – Birth of conductor Helmuth Rilling
- 1934 – Synod of the Confessing Church in Barmen starts, leading to the Barmen declaration
- 1994 – Death of East German leader Erich Honecker
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May 30
- 1800 – Birth of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
- 1832 – End of the Hambacher Fest democratic meeting
- 1910 – Birth of actress Inge Meysel
- 1968 – The German Emergency Acts are passed
- 1992 – Death of former president Karl Carstens
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May 31
- 1740 — Death of "soldier king" Frederick William I of Prussia
- 1773 — Birth of poet Ludwig Tieck
- 1903 — VfB Leipzig becomes the first German football champion
- 1916 — German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland
- 1945 — Birth of movie director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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June 1
- 1639 – Death of composer Melchior Franck
- 1927 – The Hindenburgdamm connecting Sylt to the mainland is opened
- 1947 – Birth of singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker
- 1973 – Birth of supermodel Heidi Klum
- 1979 – Death of physician Werner Forssmann, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 2000 – The Expo 2000 world fair opens in Hanover
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June 2
- 1878 – Anarchist Karl Nobiling attempts to assassinate Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany
- 1885 – Birth of neuropathologist Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
- 1917 – Birth of zoologist and filmmaker Heinz Sielmann
- 1920 – Birth of literary critic and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg is shot by a policeman during a demonstration
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June 3
- 1858 – Death of composer Julius Reubke
- 1873 – Birth of pharmacologist Otto Loewi, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1970 – Death of Reichsbank president and politician Hjalmar Schacht
- 1971 – Death of mathematician Heinz Hopf
- 1998 – 101 people die in the Eschede train disaster
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June 4
- 1792 – Death of Sturm und Drang writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- 1875 – Death of romantic poet Eduard Mörike
- 1877 – Birth of chemist Heinrich Otto Wieland, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1882 – Birth of comedian Karl Valentin
- 1942 – Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Operation Anthropoid
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June 5
- 1493 – Birth of Protestant reformer Justus Jonas
- 1722 – Death of composer Johann Kuhnau
- 1781 – Birth of classical scholar Christian Lobeck
- 1945 – The Allied Control Council assumes control over Germany
- 2003 – Death of FDP politician Jürgen Möllemann
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June 6
- 1436 – Birth of mathematician Regiomontanus
- 1843 – Death of poet Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1850 – Birth of physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1944 – D-Day: The Battle of Normandy begins
- 1946 – Death of dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature
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June 7
- 1676 – Death of hymnist Paul Gerhardt
- 1826 – Death of physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, discoverer of the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum
- 1843 – Death of lyric poet Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1862 – Birth of physicist Philipp Lenard, winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics and outspoken proponent of Deutsche Physik
- 1951 – Oswald Pohl is executed for war crimes, having been found guilty in the Pohl Trial
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June 8
- 1727 – Death of theologian August Hermann Francke, important figure of Pietism
- 1768 – Death of classical scholar Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- 1810 – Birth of composer Robert Schumann
- 1815 – The German Confederation is founded at the Congress of Vienna
- 1937 – Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt
- 1980 – Death of singer and actor Ernst Busch
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June 9
- 1810 – Birth of composer Carl Otto Nicolai
- 1812 – Birth of astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, one of the discoverers of Neptune
- 1881 – Birth of navy officer and author Felix von Luckner
- 1959 – Death of chemist Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, recipient of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1978 – Birth of football forward Miroslav Klose
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June 10
- 1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor dies while crossing the Saleph River
- 1804 – Birth of ornithologist Hermann Schlegel
- 1924 – Birth of computer scientist Friedrich L. Bauer
- 1929 – Birth of actor and comedian Harald Juhnke
- 1982 – Death of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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June 11
- 1723 – Birth of astronomer Johann Georg Palitzsch
- 1842 – Birth of engineer Carl von Linde, known for his contributions to refrigeration
- 1856 – Death of philologist Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
- 1864 – Birth of composer Richard Strauss
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June 12
- 1878 – Death of George V of Hanover, last king of Hanover
- 1929 – Birth of Holocaust victim Anne Frank, known for her diaries
- 1942 – Birth of cell physiologist Bert Sakmann, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1952 – Death of Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal archbishop of Munich and Freising
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June 13
- 1809 – Birth of Heinrich Hoffmann, author of Struwwelpeter
- 1878 – Beginning of the Congress of Berlin
- 1878 – Birth of poet Bruno Frank
- 1886 – Death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria on Lake Starnberg
- 1937 – Birth of football manager Erich Ribbeck
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June 14
- 1800 – Friedrich Schiller's play Maria Stuart premieres in Weimar
- 1832 – Birth of inventor Nikolaus Otto
- 1920 – Death of sociologist Max Weber
- 1940 – The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1969 – Birth of tennis player Steffi Graf
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June 15
- 1624 – Birth of orientalist Hiob Ludolf
- 1829 – Death of author Therese Huber
- 1888 – Death of Emperor Friedrich III of Germany
- 1969 – Birth of football goalkeeper Oliver Kahn
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June 16
- 1801 – Birth of mathematician Julius Plücker
- 1804 – Death of composer Johann Adam Hiller
- 1900 – Opening of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal
- 1972 – RAF terrorist Ulrike Meinhof is captured in Langenhagen
- 1977 – Death of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
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June 17
- 1810 – Birth of writer Ferdinand Freiligrath
- 1898 – Birth of crystallographer Carl Hermann
- 1953 – The Uprising in East Germany is crushed by Soviet military
- 2002 – Death of football player Fritz Walter, captain of the German team in the 1954 FIFA World Cup
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June 18
- 1887 – Germany and Russia agree on the Reinsurance Treaty
- 1916 – Death of World War I ace Max Immelmann
- 1927 – Inauguration of the Nürburgring race track
- 1929 – Birth of sociologist Jürgen Habermas
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June 19
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- 1762 – Death of composer Johann Ernst Eberlin
- 1792 – Birth of writer Gustav Schwab, best known for Sagen des klassischen Altertums
- 1811 – The first Turnfest gymnastics festival is organized by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
- 1978 – Birth of basketball player Dirk Nowitzki
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June 20
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- 1808 – Birth of rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
- 1819 – Birth of composer Jacques Offenbach
- 1887 – Birth of artist Kurt Schwitters
- 1940 – Birth of theologian Eugen Drewermann
- 1941 – Birth of astronaut Ulf Merbold, first West German in space
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June 21
- 1826 – Birth of explorer Georg von Neumayer
- 1863 – Birth of astronomer Max Wolf
- 1870 – Birth of chemist Clara Immerwahr
- 1957 – Death of physicist Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics
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June 22
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- 1767 – Birth of statesman Wilhelm von Humboldt
- 1864 – Birth of mathematician Hermann Minkowski
- 1910 – Birth of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse
- 1941 – Start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union
- 1974 – East Germany beats West Germany 1–0 in the Football World Cup
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June 23
- 1775 – Death of adventurer and writer Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz
- 1804 – Birth of businessman August Borsig
- 1891 – Death of physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber
- 1928 – Birth of politician Klaus von Dohnanyi
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June 24
- 1795 – Birth of physiologist Ernst Heinrich Weber, who found the Weber–Fechner law
- 1908 – Birth of composer Hugo Distler
- 1922 – Foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated
- 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade
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June 25
- 1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg
- 1560 – Birth of surgeon Wilhelm Fabry
- 1767 – Death of composer Georg Philipp Telemann
- 1864 – Birth of chemist Walther Nernst, recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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June 26
- 1762 – Death of playwright Luise Gottsched
- 1898 – Birth of aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt
- 1957 – Death of poet Alfred Döblin
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin and gives the Ich bin ein Berliner speech
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June 27
- 1838 – Birth of weapon manufacturer Paul von Mauser
- 1869 – Birth of embryologist Hans Spemann, recipient of the 1935 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- 1882 – Birth of philosopher Eduard Spranger
- 1993 – RAF terrorist Wolfgang Grams and GSG 9 member Michael Newrzella die at Bad Kleinen
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June 28
- 1490 – Birth of Albert of Mainz, Archbishop of Mainz and Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1903 – The Deutsches Museum is founded
- 1906 – Birth of physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1943 – Birth of physicist Klaus von Klitzing, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1968 – The German Emergency Acts come into effect
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June 29
- 1312 Henry VII is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
- 1831 Death of statesman Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
- 1880 Birth of General Ludwig Beck, member of the July 20 Plot
- 1963 Birth of violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
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June 30
- 1893 – Birth of politician Walter Ulbricht
- 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and introduces special relativity
- 1934 – In the Night of the Long Knives, the leadership of the SA is killed or arrested
- 1975 – Birth of Formula One racing driver Ralf Schumacher (pictured)
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July 1
- 1646 – Birth of polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the inventors of calculus
- 1742 – Birth of physicist and aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- 1784 – Death of composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- 1972 – Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police
- 1990 – Currency union between East and West Germany: the Mark der DDR is replaced by the Deutsche Mark
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July 2
- 1298 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg
- 1648 – Birth of organ builder Arp Schnitger
- 1714 – Birth of composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
- 1900 – First flight of a zeppelin near Friedrichshafen
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July 3
- 1676 – Birth of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, called the Old Dessauer
- 1866 – The Austro-Prussian war ends with a Prussian victory in the Battle of Königgrätz
- 1875 – Birth of surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch
- 1932 – Birth of GDR politician Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
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July 4
- 1715 – Birth of poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
- 1901 – Death of linguist Johannes Schmidt
- 1954 – Miracle of Bern: In the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final, Germany wins 3–2 against Hungary
- 1987 – Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon is sentenced to life imprisonment
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July 5
- 1884 – Cameroon becomes a German colony
- 1862 – Death of geologist Heinrich Georg Bronn
- 1943 – The Battle of Kursk begins
- 1969 – Death of architect Walter Gropius, founder of Bauhaus
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July 6
- 1854 – Death of physicist Georg Ohm
- 1885 – Birth of field marshal Ernst Busch
- 1898 – Birth of composer Hanns Eisler
- 1973 – Death of conductor Otto Klemperer
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July 7
- 1855 – Birth of writer Ludwig Ganghofer
- 1880 – The first edition of the Duden is published
- 1956 – Death of Gottfried Benn
- 1974 – Germany wins the 1974 FIFA World Cup
- 1985 – Boris Becker wins at Wimbledon for the first time
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July 8
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- 1919 – Birth of politician Walter Scheel
- 1867 – Birth of artist Käthe Kollwitz
- 1885 – Birth of philosopher Ernst Bloch
- 1936 – Frankfurt Airport is opened
- 1990 – Germany wins the 1990 FIFA World Cup
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July 9
- 1654 – Death of Ferdinand IV of Germany
- 1721 – Birth of poet Johann Nikolaus Götz
- 1809 – Birth of physician Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
- 1858 – Birth of anthropologist Franz Boas
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July 10
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- 1609 – Founding of the Catholic League
- 1809 – Birth of geologist Friedrich August von Quenstedt
- 1867 – Birth of Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany 1918
- 1883 – Birth of industrialist and war criminal Friedrich Flick
- 1902 – Birth of Kurt Alder, recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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July 11
- 1535 – Death of Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg
- 1553 – Death of Maurice, Elector of Saxony
- 1906 – Birth of politician Herbert Wehner
- 1929 – Birth of baritone Hermann Prey
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July 12
- 1806 – The Confederation of the Rhine is founded
- 1863 – Birth of physicist Paul Karl Ludwig Drude
- 1773 – Death of flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz
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July 13
- 1896 – Death of chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz
- 2014 – Germany wins the 2014 FIFA World Cup
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July 14
- 1801 – Birth of physiologist Johannes Peter Müller
- 1933 – As part of the Gleichschaltung, the forming of new political parties is declared illegal
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July 15
- 1704 – Birth of religious leader August Gottlieb Spangenberg
- 1919 – Death of chemist Hermann Emil Fischer, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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July 16
- 1664 – Death of writer Andreas Gryphius
- 1985 – Death of writer Heinrich Böll, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature
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July 17
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- 1571 – Death of poet Georg Fabricius
- 1954 – Birth of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
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July 18
- 1864 – Birth of poet Ricarda Huch
- 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf
- 1948 – Birth of biochemist Hartmut Michel, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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July 19
- 1870 – The Franco-Prussian War starts with France declaring war on Prussia
- 1898 – Birth of philosopher Herbert Marcuse
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July 20
- 1847 – Birth of impressionist painter Max Liebermann
- 1866 – Death of mathematician Bernhard Riemann
- 1932 – The cabinet of Prussia is dismissed in the Preußenschlag
- 1933 – The Reichskonkordat between Germany and the Vatican is signed
- 1934 – Birth of writer Uwe Johnson
- 1944 – 20 July plot by German military leaders to assassinate Adolf Hitler (Operation Valkyrie)
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July 21
- 1893 – Birth of writer Hans Fallada
- 1935 – Birth of politician Norbert Blüm
- 1936 – Death of politician Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany 1917
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July 22
- 1784 – Birth of mathematician and astronomer Friedrich Bessel
- 1887 – Birth of physicist Gustav Ludwig Hertz, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics
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July 23
- 1164 – The remains of the Three Kings arrive at Cologne Cathedral
- 1777 – Birth of painter Philipp Otto Runge
- 1793 – The French retreat after the Siege of Mainz ends the Mainz Republic
- 1886 – Birth of physicist Walter H. Schottky
- 1899 – Birth of Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany 1969-1974
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July 24
- 1655 – Death of epigrammatist Friedrich, Freiherr von Logau
- 1851 – Birth of mathematician Friedrich Schottky
- 1864 – Birth of playwright Frank Wedekind
- 1922 – Birth of politician Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski
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July 25
- 1790 – Death of educational reformer Johann Bernhard Basedow
- 1802 – Death of Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz
- 1867 – Birth of author and painter Max Dauthendey
- 2005 – Death of jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff
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July 26
- 1855 – Birth of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies
- 1865 – Birth of politician Philipp Scheidemann
- 1882 – Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal premieres in Bayreuth
- 1953 – Birth of soccer player and manager Felix Magath
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July 27
- 1808 – Birth of philologist Moritz Haupt
- 1881 – Birth of chemist Hans Fischer, recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1940 – Birth of choreographer Pina Bausch
- 1997 – Jan Ullrich wins the 1997 Tour de France
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July 28
- 1750 – Death of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1804 – Birth of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach
- 1874 – Birth of philosopher Ernst Cassirer
- 1954 – Birth of mathematician Gerd Faltings, winner of the Fields Medal
- 1968 – Death of chemist Otto Hahn, recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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July 29
- 1843 – Birth of linguist Johannes Schmidt
- 1856 – Death of composer Robert Schumann
- 1979 – Death of philosopher Herbert Marcuse
- 2001 – Death of hacker Wau Holland, co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club
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July 30
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- 1814 – Birth of master mechanic and industrialist Johann Georg Halske
- 1855 – Birth of industrialist Georg Wilhelm von Siemens
- 1898 – Death of politician Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Prussia and of Germany
- 1964 – Birth of football player and manager Jürgen Klinsmann
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July 31
- 1884 – Birth of politician Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, member of the German Resistance
- 1919 – The German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution
- 1932 – In the July 1932 Reichstag election, the NSDAP becomes the biggest party in the Reichstag
- 1980 – Death of physicist Pascual Jordan
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August 1
- 1914 – World War I: The German Empire declares war on Russia
- 1936 – The Summer Olympics open in Berlin
- 1970 – Death of physician Otto Heinrich Warburg, recipient of the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine
- 1990 – Death of sociologist Norbert Elias
- 2001 – The Lebenspartnerschaftsgesetz allows civil unions in Germany
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August 2
- 1788 – Birth of chemist Leopold Gmelin
- 1905 – Birth of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- 1934 – After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler assumes the title of "Führer und Reichskanzler"
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August 3
- 1761 – Death of classical scholar Johann Matthias Gesner
- 1867 – Death of classical scholar Philipp August Böckh
- 1914 – Germany declares war on France in World War I
- 1942 – Death of chemist Richard Willstätter, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the structure of chlorophyll
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August 4
- 1719 – Birth of mineralogist Johann Gottlob Lehmann
- 1753 – Death of organ and piano builder Gottfried Silbermann
- 1906 – Birth of zoologist Eugen Schuhmacher
- 1944 – Anne Frank and her family are arrested in the Achterhuis
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August 5
- 1895 – Death of philosopher Friedrich Engels
- 1901 – Death of Empress Victoria, known as Kaiserin Friedrich
- 1946 – Death of Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany 1923-1925
- 1957 – Death of chemist Heinrich Otto Wieland, recipient of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into bile acids
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August 6
- 1195 – Death of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria
- 1697 – Birth of Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1969 – Death of philosopher Theodor W. Adorno
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August 7
- 1635 – Death of Jesuit poet Friedrich von Spee, opposer of the witch trials
- 1867 – Birth of expressionist painter Emil Nolde
- 1884 – German South-West Africa becomes a German colony
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August 8
- 1719 – Death of painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola
- 1944 – Execution of resistance members including Erwin von Witzleben and Paul von Hase
- 1960 – Birth of comic artist Ralf König
- 1974 – Death of Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach
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August 9
- 1648 – Birth of composer Johann Michael Bach
- 1896 – Birth of physical chemist Erich Hückel
- 1938 – Birth of football coach Otto Rehhagel
- 1962 – Death of novelist Hermann Hesse, recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature
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August 10
- 955 – Otto I the Great defeats the Magyars in the Battle of Lechfeld
- 1878 – Birth of novelist Alfred Döblin, best known for Berlin Alexanderplatz
- 1896 – Death of aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal
- 1913 – Birth of physicist Wolfgang Paul, co-developer of the ion trap and recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
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August 11
- 1464 – Death of Nicolaus Cusanus
- 1519 – Death of Johann Tetzel, seller of indulgences
- 1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is signed into law
- 1973 – Death of chemist Karl Ziegler, recipient of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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August 12
- 1647 – Birth of writer Johann Heinrich Acker
- 1759 – Defeat of Prussia in the Battle of Kunersdorf
- 1762 – Birth of physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
- 1943 – Birth of politician Herta Däubler-Gmelin
- 1955 – Death of author Thomas Mann, recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature
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August 13
- 1876 – The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the performance of Der Ring des Nibelungen
- 1902 – Birth of engineer Felix Wankel, inventor of the Wankel engine
- 1917 – Death of chemist Eduard Buchner, recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1961 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
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August 14
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- 1840 – Birth of psychologist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
- 1945 – Birth of director Wim Wenders
- 1949 – First elections for the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1956 – Death of writer Bertolt Brecht
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August 15
- 1740 – Birth of poet Matthias Claudius
- 1857 – Birth of shipping tycoon Albert Ballin
- 1953 – Death of physicist Ludwig Prandtl
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August 16
- 1832 – Birth of psychologist Wilhelm Wundt
- 1899 – Death of chemist Robert Bunsen, known for the Bunsen Burner
- 1929 – Birth of football player Helmut Rahn, known as Der Boss
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August 17
- 1676 – Death of Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, author of Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus
- 1786 – Death of King Frederick II of Prussia
- 1956 – The Communist Party of Germany is declared illegal by the Federal Constitutional Court
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August 18
- 1888 – Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof is opened
- 1933 – The Volksempfänger is presented at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin
- 1944 – Communist politician Ernst Thälmann is shot at Buchenwald concentration camp
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August 19
- 1753 – Death of architect Balthasar Neumann
- 1830 – Birth of chemist Julius Lothar Meyer
- 1969 – Death of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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August 20
- 1639 – Death of poet Martin Opitz von Boberfeld
- 1854 – Death of philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
- 1915 – Death of scientist Paul Ehrlich, recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1917 – Death of chemist Adolf von Baeyer, recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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August 21
- 1826 – Birth of anatomist Carl Gegenbaur
- 1838 – Death of poet Adelbert von Chamisso
- 1901 – Death of physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick
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August 22
- 1860 – Birth of inventor Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
- 1902 – Birth of actress and director Leni Riefenstahl
- 1928 – Birth of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen
- 1950 – The Technisches Hilfswerk is founded
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August 23
- 1773 – Birth of philosopher Jakob Friedrich Fries
- 1939 – The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is signed in Moscow
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August 24
- 1617 – The Fruitbearing Society is founded in Weimar by German scholars and nobility
- 1759 – Death of poet Ewald Christian von Kleist
- 1888 – Death of physicist Rudolf Clausius, who introduced the concept of entropy
- 1979 – Death of test pilot Hanna Reitsch
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August 25
- 1758 – Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf
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August 26
- 1882 – Birth of physicist James Franck, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1972 – The 1972 Summer Olympics open in Munich
- 1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes the first German in space
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August 27
- 1770 – Birth of philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 1935 – Death of chermist Otto Schott
- 1939 – First flight of the Heinkel He 178, the first practical jet plane
- 1969 – Death of actor and writer Erika Mann
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August 28
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- 1749 – Birth of author Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- 1825 – Birth of writer and gay rights campaigner Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
- 1988 – 67 people die in the Ramstein airshow disaster
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August 29
- 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
- 1904 – Birth of Werner Forssmann, recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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August 30
- 1928 – Death of physicist Wilhelm Wien, recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1946 – The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is established
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August 31
- 1528 – Death of artist Matthias Grünewald
- 1920 – Death of psychologist Wilhelm Wundt
- 1939 – In the Gleiwitz incident, German operatives stage a Polish aggression against Germany
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September 1
- 1653 – Birth of composer Johann Pachelbel
- 1854 – Birth of composer Engelbert Humperdinck
- 1915 – Death of poet and playwright August Stramm
- 1939 – Nazi Germany attacks Poland in the Polish September Campaign, beginning World War II
- 1981 – Death of Nazi architect and politician Albert Speer
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September 2
- 1661 – Birth of organist Georg Böhm
- 1853 – Birth of chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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September 3
- 1829 – Death of physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick
- 1971 – The Four Power Agreement on Berlin is signed
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September 4
- 1842 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral resumes
- 1891 – Birth of Nazi engineer Fritz Todt, founder of Organisation Todt
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September 5
- 1774 – Birth of painter Caspar David Friedrich
- 1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped by Rote Armee Fraktion terrorists
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September 6
- 1879 – Birth of actor Max Schreck, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film Nosferatu
- 1915 – Birth of politician Franz Josef Strauß
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September 7
- 1464 – Death of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony
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September 8
- 1778 – Birth of poet Clemens Brentano
- 1941 – Start of the Siege of Leningrad
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September 9
- 1941 – Death of entrepreneur Carl Friedrich von Siemens
- 1995 – Death of astronaut Reinhard Furrer
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September 10
- 1804 – Birth of navy official Karl Rudolf Brommy
- 1947 – First meeting of the Group 47
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September 11
- 1816 – Birth of optician and businessman Carl Zeiss
- 1945 – Birth of football player and manager Franz Beckenbauer, nicknamed the Kaiser (pictured)
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September 12
- 1829 – Birth of painter Anselm Feuerbach
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September 13
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- 1819 – Birth of pianist and composer Clara Schumann
- 1989 – Birth of football player Thomas Müller
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September 14
- 1769 – Birth of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt
- 1817 – Birth of writer Theodor Storm
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September 15
- 1756 – Birth of writer Karl Philipp Moritz
- 1915 – Birth of Helmut Schön, manager of the Germany national football team 1964-1978
- 1926 – Death of Rudolf Christoph Eucken, recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive Jews of German citizenship
- 1949 – Konrad Adenauer is elected Chancellor of Germany
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September 16
- 1853 – Birth of Albrecht Kossel, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research in cell biology
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September 17
- 1179 – Death of Hildegard of Bingen
- 1826 – Birth of mathematician Bernhard Riemann
- 1916 – Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen wins his first aerial combat
- 1966 – Death of tenor Fritz Wunderlich
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September 18
- 1786 – Birth of poet Justinus Kerner
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September 19
- 1965 – The government of Ludwig Erhard is confirmed in federal elections
- 1990 – The Palast der Republik is closed due to asbestos contamination
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September 20
- 1848 – Birth of entrepreneur and inventor Friedrich Soennecken
- 1863 – Death of philologist Jacob Grimm
- 1898 – Death of novelist Theodor Fontane
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September 21
- 1792 – Birth of poet Johann Peter Eckermann, best known for his Conversations with Goethe
- 1860 – Death of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
- 1869 – The first Dresden Semperoper is destroyed by fire
- 1964 – Death of Otto Grotewohl, Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic
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September 22
- 1547 – Birth of philologist Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin
- 1741 – Birth of zoologist Peter Simon Pallas
- 1882 – Birth of field marshal and war criminal Wilhelm Keitel
- 2002 – Gerhard Schröder narrowly wins the federal elections
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September 23
- 1122 – The Concordat of Worms is signed
- 1728 – Death of jurist Christian Thomasius
- 1791 – Birth of poet Theodor Körner
- 1885 – Death of painter Carl Spitzweg
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September 24
- 1545 – Death of Elector Albert of Mainz
- 1583 – Birth of Albrecht von Wallenstein
- 1945 – Death of physicist Hans Geiger, known for the Geiger counter
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September 25
- 1729 – Birth of classical scholar Christian Gottlob Heyne
- 1744 – Birth of King Frederick William II of Prussia
- 1970 – Death of author Erich Maria Remarque
- 1992 – The last portion of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal is opened
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September 26
- 1868 – Death of astronomer and mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius, after whom the Möbius strip is named
- 1877 – Death of polymath Hermann Grassmann
- 1889 – Birth of philosopher Martin Heidegger
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September 27
- 1719 – Birth of mathematician Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
- 1921 – Death of composer Engelbert Humperdinck
- 1940 – Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
- 1998 – Helmut Kohl is defeated by Gerhard Schröder in the Bundestag elections
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September 28
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- 1197 – Death of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1803 – Birth of painter Ludwig Richter
- 1905 – Birth of boxer Max Schmeling
- 1959 – Death of racing car driver Rudolf Caracciola
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September 29
- 1789 – Birth of gardener and landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné
- 1839 – Death of mineralogist Friedrich Mohs
- 1928 – Birth of politician Gerhard Stoltenberg
- 1938 – In the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland is given to Nazi Germany
- 1948 – Birth of clarinettist Theo Jörgensmann
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September 30
- 1913 – Death of inventor Rudolf Diesel
- 1940 – Death of operetta composer Walter Kollo
- 1943 – Birth of chemist Johann Deisenhofer, recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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October 1
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- 1685 – Birth of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1827 – Death of poet Wilhelm Müller
- 1946 – The verdict in the main Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal is spoken at Nuremberg
- 1982 – Helmut Kohl becomes Chancellor of Germany by a constructive vote of no confidence
- 2017 – Legalisation of same-sex marriage in Germany
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October 2
- 1847 – Birth of Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany 1925-1934
- 1921 – Death of King William II of Württemberg
- 1928 – Birth of sex educator Oswalt Kolle
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October 3
- 1722 – Birth of painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein
- 1889 – Birth of pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1929 – Death of politician Gustav Stresemann, recipient of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1990 – Reunification of Germany
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October 4
- 1859 – Death of publisher Karl Baedeker
- 1947 – Death of physicist Max Planck, recipient of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
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October 5
- 1665 – Founding of the University of Kiel
- 1740 – Death of scholar Johann Philipp Baratier
- 1817 – Birth of composer Eduard Franck
- 1980 – The government of Helmut Schmidt is confirmed in federal elections
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October 6
- 1459 – Birth of geographer Martin Behaim
- 1831 – Birth of mathematician Richard Dedekind
- 1951 – Death of physician and biochemist Otto Fritz Meyerhof, recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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October 7
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- 1835 – Birth of composer Felix Draeseke
- 1879 – The Dual Alliance is created between the German Empire and Austria-Hungary
- 1903 – Death of mathematician Rudolf Lipschitz
- 1949 – The German Democratic Republic is proclaimed
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October 8
- 1883 – Birth of Otto Heinrich Warburg, recipient of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1883 – Birth of psychiatrist Ernst Kretschmer
- 1962 – Der Spiegel publishes the article Bedingt abwehrbereit, starting the Spiegel scandal
- 1992 – Death of Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany 1969-1974
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October 9
- 1852 – Birth of chemist Hermann Emil Fischer, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1879 – Birth of physicist Max von Laue, recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1989 – The first large Monday demonstration takes places in Leipzig
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October 10
- 1806 – Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia dies at the Battle of Saalfeld
- 1819 – Birth of theologian Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger
- 1885 – Birth of folklorist Walter Anderson
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October 11
- 1347 – Death of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1616 – Birth of poet Andreas Gryphius
- 1708 – Death of scientist Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, inventor of the European porcelain
- 1852 – Death of mathematician Ferdinand Eisenstein
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October 12
- 1687 – Birth of composer Sylvius Leopold Weiss
- 1810 – The first Oktoberfest is held in Munich
- 1891 – Birth of philosopher and Carmelite nun Edith Stein
- 1949 – The German Confederation of Trade Unions is founded
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October 13
- 1821 – Birth of physician Rudolf Virchow
- 1825 – Death of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
- 1945 – The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is founded
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October 14
- 1806 – Prussia is defeated by Napoleon in the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
- 1892 – Birth of Heinrich Lübke, President of Germany 1959–1969
- 1944 – Suicide of field marshal Erwin Rommel
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October 15
- 1844 – Birth of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1880 – The completion of Cologne Cathedral is celebrated 632 years after construction had begun
- 1934 – Death of publisher Samuel Fischer, the founder of S. Fischer Verlag
- 1946 – Hermann Göring commits suicide the night before his planned execution
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October 16
- 1553 – Death of artist Lucas Cranach the Elder
- 1750 – Death of composer Sylvius Leopold Weiss
- 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick Wilhelm Voigt masquerades as an officer, which makes him famous
- 1927 – Birth of writer Günter Grass, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1946 – Several major Nazi war criminals are executed following the judgment in the Nuremberg Trials
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October 17
- 1813 – Birth of dramatist Georg Büchner
- 1887 – Death of physicist Gustav Kirchhoff
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October 18
- 1777 – Birth of poet Heinrich von Kleist
- 1902 – Birth of physicist Pascual Jordan
- 1926 – Birth of actor Klaus Kinski
- 1977 – The GSG 9 frees hostages on board of the Lufthansa airplane Landshut, ending the most dramatic part of the German Autumn
- 1989 – Erich Honecker resigns as leader of the German Democratic Republic
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October 19
- 1466 – The Second Treaty of Thorn ends the Thirteen Years' War
- 1878 – The Reichstag passes the Anti-Socialist Laws
- 1918 – Establishment of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- 1971 – The Munich U-Bahn begins operation
- 1992 – The corpses of Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian are found
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October 20
- 1719 – Birth of statistician Gottfried Achenwall
- 1920 – Death of composer Max Bruch
- 1942 – Birth of biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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October 21
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- 1881 – Death of mathematician Eduard Heine
- 1944 – As first major German city Aachen is occupied by the Allieds
- 1957 – Birth of physicist Wolfgang Ketterle, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1969 – Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor of Germany by the Bundestag
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October 22
- 1511 – Birth of astronomer and mathematician Erasmus Reinhold
- 1660 – Birth of chemist Georg Ernst Stahl
- 1729 – Birth of naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, member of James Cook's second Pacific expedition
- 1847 – Death of writer Henriette Herz
- 1906 – Birth of artist Fritz Cremer
- 1943 – Birth of politician Wolfgang Thierse
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October 23
- 1801 – Birth of composer Albert Lortzing
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October 24
- 1804 – Birth of physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber
- 1938 – Death of expressionist sculptor Ernst Barlach
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October 25
- 1789 – Birth of astronomer Heinrich Schwabe
- 1806 – Birth of philosopher Max Stirner
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October 26
- 1849 – Birth of mathematician Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
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October 27
- 1998 – Gerhard Schröder is elected Chancellor of Germany
- 2012 – Death of composer Hans Werner Henze
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October 28
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- 1929 – Death of Bernhard von Bülow (pictured), Chancellor of Germany 1900-1909
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October 29
- 1879 – Birth of politician Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany 1932
- 1897 – Birth of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany
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October 30
- 1893 – Birth of Nazi judge Roland Freisler, president of the Volksgerichtshof
- 1941 – Birth of physicist Theodor W. Hänsch, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1975 – Death of physicist Gustav Ludwig Hertz, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics
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October 31
- 1517 – Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses at the Castle Church in Wittenberg
- 1815 – Birth of mathematician Karl Weierstraß
- 1835 – Birth of chemist Adolf von Baeyer, winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of indigo dye
- 1920 – Birth of football player Fritz Walter, captain of the Germany national football team winnning the 1954 FIFA World Cup
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November 1
- 1607 – Birth of poet Georg Philipp Harsdörffer
- 1880 – Birth of meteorologist Alfred Wegener, who invented the theory of continental drift
- 1903 – Death of classicist and historian Theodor Mommsen, winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1949 – The first edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is published
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November 2
- 1716 – Death of traveller and physician Engelbert Kaempfer
- 1874 – Birth of politician Rudolf Breitscheid
- 1894 – Birth of aerodynamics pioneer Alexander Martin Lippisch
- 1956 – Death of rabbi Leo Baeck
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November 3
- 1801 – Birth of publisher Karl Baedeker, founder of the Baedeker travel guides
- 1867 – Birth of mathematician Martin Kutta, known for Runge–Kutta methods
- 1900 – Birth of Adolf Dassler, founder of adidas
- 1918 – The Kiel mutiny marks the start of the German Revolution of 1918–1919
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November 4
- 1847 – Death of composer Felix Mendelssohn
- 1847 – Birth of archaeologist Gustav Hirschfeld
- 1890 – Birth of writer Klabund
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November 5
- 1494 – Birth of meistersinger Hans Sachs
- 1667 – Birth of painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola
- 1923 – Birth of journalist Rudolf Augstein, founder of Der Spiegel
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November 6
- 1672 – Death of composer Heinrich Schütz
- 1929 – Death of Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany 1918
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November 7
- 1810 – Birth of novelist Fritz Reuter
- 1818 – Birth of physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond
- 1918 – Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria a free state, leading to the Bavarian Soviet Republic
- 1989 – Willi Stoph resigns as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic
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November 8
- 1848 – Birth of mathematician, logician and philosopher Gottlob Frege
- 1868 – Birth of mathematician Felix Hausdorff
- 1918 – Birth of type designer and calligrapher Hermann Zapf
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November 9
- November 9 in German history
- 1848 – Revolutionary Robert Blum is executed
- 1885 – Birth of mathematician Hermann Weyl
- 1918 – Germany is declared a republic in the German Revolution
- 1923 – End of the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler's failed attempt to seize power
- 1938 – A massive pogrom against the Jewish population of Germany is started, known as Kristallnacht
- 1989 – Fall of the Berlin Wall
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November 10
- 1486 – Birth of theologian and reformer Martin Luther
- 1759 – Birth of poet Friedrich Schiller
- 1887 – Birth of author Arnold Zweig
- 1918 – Birth of chemist Ernst Otto Fischer, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1955 – Birth of film director, screenwriter, and producer Roland Emmerich
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November 11
- 1668 – Birth of classical scholar Johann Albert Fabricius
- 1884 – Death of zoologist Alfred Brehm, author of Brehms Tierleben
- 1918 – World War I ends with the signing of an armistice near Compiègne
- 1929 – Birth of author Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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November 12
- 1742 – Death of physician Friedrich Hoffmann
- 1923 – Birth of humorist Vicco von Bülow, usually known as Loriot
- 1929 – Birth of author Michael Ende, best known for The Neverending Story
- 1955 – The Bundeswehr is officially established
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November 13
- 1486 – Birth of theologian Johann Eck
- 1862 – Death of poet Ludwig Uhland
- 2014 – Death of mathematician Alexander Grothendieck
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November 14
- 1716 – Death of philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz
- 1825 – Death of writer Jean Paul
- 1940 – Most of Coventry is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the Coventry Blitz
- 1990 – Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line
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November 15
- 1741 – Birth of poet and physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater
- 1787 – Death of composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
- 1862 – Birth of author Gerhart Hauptmann, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1936 – Birth of singer-songwriter and dissident Wolf Biermann
- 1959 – The Social Democratic Party of Germany ratisfies its Godesberg Program, giving up on the ideas of Marxism
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November 16
- 1797 – Death of King Frederick William II of Prussia
- 1891 – Birth of politician and resistance fighter Julius Leber
- 1895 – Birth of composer Paul Hindemith
- 1909 – DELAG, the world's first airline, is founded
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November 17
- 1624 – Death of mystic Jakob Böhme
- 1790 – Birth of mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius
- 1876 – Birth of photographer August Sander
- 1901 – Birth of politician Walter Hallstein, known for the Hallstein Doctrine
- 1934 – Death of poet Joachim Ringelnatz
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November 18
- 1786 – Birth of composer Carl Maria von Weber
- 1839 – Birth of physicist August Kundt
- 1906 – Birth of writer Klaus Mann
- 1941 – Death of chemist Walther Nernst
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November 19
- 1833 – Birth of philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey
- 1900 – Birth of author Anna Seghers, who wrote The Seventh Cross
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November 20
- 1602 – Birth of physicist and politician Otto von Guericke
- 1917 – Beginning of the Battle of Cambrai
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November 21
- 1768 – Birth of theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
- 1811 – Suicide of poet Heinrich von Kleist
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November 22
- 1220 – Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
- 1710 – Birth of composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- 1897 – Birth of astronomer Paul Oswald Ahnert
- 1967 – Birth of tennis player Boris Becker
- 2005 – Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany
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November 23
- 912 – Birth of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1943 – Birth of politician Günther Beckstein
- 1991 – Death of actor Klaus Kinski
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November 24
- 1801 – Birth of writer Ludwig Bechstein
- 1887 – Birth of Wehrmacht commander Erich von Manstein
- 1934 – Birth of composer Alfred Schnittke
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November 25
- 1841 – Birth of mathematician Ernst Schröder, known for the Schröder-Bernstein theorem
- 1865 – Death of explorer Heinrich Barth
- 1881 – Death of Theobald Boehm, who perfected the modern flute
- 1940 – Birth of astronaut Reinhard Furrer
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November 26
- 1346 – Charles IV is crowned King of Germany in opposition to Louis IV
- 1832 – Birth of physicist Rudolph Koenig
- 1857 – Death of poet and novelist Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
- 1885 – Birth of Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany 1930-1932
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November 27
- 1308 – Henry VII is elected King of the Romans
- 1754 – Birth of scientist and revolutionary Georg Forster
- 1804 – Birth of composer Julius Benedict
- 2005 – Death of politician Franz Schönhuber, known as leader of The Republicans
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November 28
- 1815 – Death of violinist and composer Johann Peter Salomon
- 1820 – Birth of philosopher Friedrich Engels
- 1887 – Birth of Nazi Sturmabteilung leader Ernst Röhm
- 1983 – Ulf Merbold takes off with Space Shuttle mission STS-9 to become the first West German in space
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November 29
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- 1626 – Death of soldier Ernst von Mansfeld
- 1802 – Birth of poet and novelist Wilhelm Hauff
- 1856 – Birth of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of the German Empire
- 1904 – Birth of architect Egon Eiermann, best known for the reconstruction of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
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November 30
- 1756 – Birth of physicist Ernst Chladni, known for his research on vibrating plates
- 1817 – Birth of classicist and historian Theodor Mommsen, winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1954 – Death of conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
- 1989 – Deutsche Bank chairman Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction bomb
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December 1
- 1743 – Birth of chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth
- 1750 – Death of astronomer and cartographer Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr
- 1884 – Birth of expressionist painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
- 1966 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger is elected Chancellor of Germany by Germany's first grand coalition
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December 2
- 1409 – The University of Leipzig is founded
- 1817 – Birth of historian Heinrich von Sybel
- 1891 – Birth of expressionist painter Otto Dix
- 1944 – Birth of novelist and playwright Botho Strauß
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December 3
- 1776 – Birth of physician Johann Spurzheim, proponent of phrenology
- 1857 – Death of sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch
- 1898 – Birth of author Fritz Steuben
- 1931 – Birth of singer-songwriter Franz Josef Degenhardt
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December 4
- 1555 – Birth of historian and poet Heinrich Meibom
- 1881 – Birth of field marshal Erwin von Witzleben, member of the July 20 Plot
- 1933 – Death of poet Stefan George
- 1975 – Death of political theorist Hannah Arendt
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December 5
- 1868 – Birth of theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld
- 1897 – Birth of philosopher and historian Gershom Scholem
- 1901 – Birth of physicist Werner Heisenberg (pictured), winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1963 – Death of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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December 6
- 1849 – Birth of field marshal August von Mackensen
- 1892 – Death of industrialist Ernst Werner von Siemens
- 2005 – Death of cabaret artist Hanns Dieter Hüsch
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December 7
- 983 – Death of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1810 – Birth of physiologist Theodor Schwann
- 1823 – Birth of mathematician Leopold Kronecker
- 1970 – Poland and West Germany sign the Treaty of Warsaw
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December 8
- 1708 – Birth of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I
- 1813 – Birth of priest and social activist Adolph Kolping
- 1815 – Birth of artist Adolph Menzel
- 1914 – The German East Asia Squadron is destroyed in the Battle of the Falkland Islands
- 1955 – Death of mathematician Hermann Weyl
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December 9
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- 1652 – Birth of physician and botanist Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
- 1717 – Birth of archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- 1798 – Death of naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, member of James Cook's second Pacific expedition
- 1868 – Birth of chemist Fritz Haber, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of synthetic ammonia
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December 10
- 1452 – Birth of mathematician and astronomer Johannes Stöffler
- 1520 – Martin Luther burns the papal bull Exsurge Domine in Wittenberg
- 1804 – Birth of mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- 1891 – Birth of poet Nelly Sachs, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1971 – Willy Brandt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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December 11
- 1843 – Birth of physician Robert Koch, recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- 1882 – Birth of physicist Max Born, recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1941 – Germany declares war on the United States
- 1998 – Death of politician Max Streibl
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December 12
- 1559 – Death of physician Andreas Aurifaber
- 1768 – Death of author Johann Christoph Gottsched
- 1963 – Death of politician Theodor Heuss, first President of West Germany
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December 13
- 1250 – Death of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1769 – Death of poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
- 1797 – Birth of poet Heinrich Heine
- 1816 – Birth of inventor and industrialist Ernst Werner von Siemens
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December 14
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- 1720 – Birth of jurist and social theorist Justus Möser
- 1788 – Death of composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- 1914 – Birth of Karl Carstens, President of Germany 1979-1984
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December 15
- 1955 – Death of politician Otto Braun, last democratic Prime Minister of Prussia before the Preußenschlag
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December 16
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- 1944 – The Battle of the Bulge begins
- 1964 – Birth of athlete Heike Drechsler
- 2001 – Death of writer Stefan Heym
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December 17
- 1833 – Death of foundling Kaspar Hauser
- 1930 – Birth of actor Armin Mueller-Stahl
- 1961 – Consecration of the new Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
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December 18
- 1803 – Death of writer Johann Gottfried Herder
- 1913 – Birth of Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany 1969-1974 and recipient of the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1917 – The Ufa film studio is created
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December 19
- 1498 – Birth of Lutheran theologian Andreas Osiander
- 1915 – Death of neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer, after whom Alzheimer's disease is named
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December 20
- 1626 – Birth of statesman and scholar Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff
- 1926 – Birth of politician Otto Graf Lambsdorff
- 1937 – Death of general Erich Ludendorff
- 1963 – The first of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials opens
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December 21
- 1504 – Death of Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, Archbishop of Mainz
- 1917 – Birth of writer Heinrich Böll, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1935 – Death of journalist and satirist Kurt Tucholsky
- 1958 – Death of novelist Lion Feuchtwanger
- 1965 – Birth of politician Cem Özdemir
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December 22
- 1765 – Birth of mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff
- 1899 – Birth of actor Gustaf Gründgens
- 1902 – Death of psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, author of Psychopathia Sexualis
- 1989 – The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin reopens after the fall of the Berlin Wall
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December 23
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- 1810 – Birth of egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius
- 1828 – Birth of poet Mathilde Wesendonck
- 1918 – Birth of politician Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany 1974-1982
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December 24
- 1475 – Birth of satirist Thomas Murner
- 1859 – Birth of publisher Samuel von Fischer, founder of S. Fischer Verlag
- 1980 – Death of Karl Dönitz, President of Germany 1945
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December 25
- 1356 – At the Diet of Metz, the final parts of the Golden Bull are decreed
- 1742 – Birth of Charlotte von Stein, friend of Goethe
- 1906 – Birth of physicist Ernst Ruska, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
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December 26
- 1194 – Birth of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1890 – Death of Heinrich Schliemann, excavator of Troy
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December 27
- 1571 – Birth of astronomer Johannes Kepler
- 1896 – Birth of writer and playwright Carl Zuckmayer
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December 28
- 1888 – Birth of silent film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- 1963 – Death of composer and conductor Paul Hindemith
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December 29
- 1926 – Death of poet Rainer Maria Rilke
- 1929 – Death of engineer Wilhelm Maybach
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December 30
- 1525 – Death of banker Jacob Fugger, nicknamed The Rich
- 1819 – Birth of poet and novelist Theodor Fontane
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December 31
- 1747 – Birth of poet Gottfried August Bürger
- 1881 – Birth of expressionist painter Max Pechstein
- 1896 – Birth of mathematician Carl Ludwig Siegel
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