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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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