Germany - Notable Historical Events
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Germany - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
13-11-16 |
General Tiberius' (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany |
89-01-01 |
Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome |
936-08-07 |
Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany |
1024-09-04 |
Conrad II (the Elder) chosen as King of Germany |
1083-06-03 |
Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral |
1096-06-25 |
1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany |
1125-08-30 |
Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany |
1198-09-05 |
Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany |
1212-12-09 |
Frederick II (later also Holy Roman Emperor) crowned King of Germany in Mainz. |
1241-05-25 |
1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
1264-08-05 |
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany |
1268-10-29 |
Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church. |
1285-10-12 |
180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire |
1298-06-23 |
Duke Albrecht von Habsburg crowned King of Germany |
1298-06-25 |
Rindfleisch Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany |
1298-07-23 |
Rindfleisch Persecutions - Jewish community in Wurzburg Germany massacred |
1298-10-19 |
Rindfleisch-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered |
1349-01-30 |
Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred |
1349-03-21 |
3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany |
1349-03-22 |
Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) |
1349-04-30 |
Jewish community at Radolszell, Germany, exterminated |
1349-08-24 |
Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism |
1349-09-10 |
Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death |
1349-11-29 |
Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred |
1370-02-17 |
Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania |
1374-06-24 |
A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. |
1430-05-05 |
Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany |
1438-03-18 |
Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany |
1466-10-19 |
The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn, Germany |
1492-10-24 |
24 Jews are burned at the stake in Mecklenburg, Germany |
1510-01-22 |
Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany |
1511-10-05 |
Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss |
1521-01-28 |
Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms in Worms Germany (until May 25). Produced 'Edit of Worms' dennoucing Martin Luther |
1524-07-19 |
Peasants' War begins in Germany's Black Forest |
1527-05-30 |
University of Marburg (Germany) founded |
1596-10-24 |
-26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany |
1597-08-11 |
Germany throws out English sales people |
1614-09-01 |
Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany |
1622-01-07 |
Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg |
1631-05-20 |
Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under earl Johann Tilly, most inhabitants massacred, one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. |
1634-10-11 |
the Burchardi flood — "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. |
1656-12-01 |
Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden |
1683-07-24 |
1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord |
1683-10-06 |
13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila) |
1684-08-15 |
Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France |
1686-07-09 |
Germany, Sweden & Spain sign anti-French League of Augsburg |
1688-09-24 |
France declares war on Germany |
1690-01-14 |
Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany |
1697-10-30 |
Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Dutch/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending Nine Year War |
1699-03-04 |
Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany |
1701-09-07 |
Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant |
1704-08-13 |
French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany |
1735-03-13 |
1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany |
1758-06-23 |
Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. |
1775-04-11 |
The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place. |
1780-04-16 |
The University of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded. |
1793-03-18 |
The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann. |
1812-01-09 |
Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon |
1816-03-06 |
Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany |
1835-10-03 |
Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg, Germany. |
1842-05-05 |
City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) |
1848-05-18 |
Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany. |
1850-08-28 |
Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar, Germany |
1863-07-14 |
Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality |
1865-06-10 |
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany |
1871-05-10 |
Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war |
1879-10-07 |
Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant |
1881-04-25 |
250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany |
1882-05-20 |
Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance |
1882-09-10 |
1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) |
1883-05-15 |
Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany |
1883-10-30 |
Austria-Hungary, Germany and Romania sign military treaty |
1884-08-07 |
Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) |
1885-12-29 |
Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany) |
1886-07-03 |
In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile |
1886-10-30 |
Great Britain and Germany agree boundaries in East Africa |
1887-02-20 |
Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance |
1887-06-18 |
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed. |
1888-06-15 |
Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany |
1889-05-01 |
Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) |
1890-05-13 |
Lord Salisbury offers Helgoland to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria |
1890-05-24 |
Caprivi succeeds Bismarck as chancellor of Germany |
1890-07-01 |
Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty |
1892-05-20 |
Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy & Austria forms |
1892-12-05 |
Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag |
1893-08-10 |
Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany |
1894-06-26 |
Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto |
1895-11-08 |
Wilhelm Röntgen observes X-rays for the first time during an experiment at Würzburg University, Germany |
1896-01-05 |
The Die Presse newspaper (Germany) publicly announces Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays and their potential for new methods of medical diagnoses in a front-page article |
1898-08-09 |
Rudolf Diesel, of Germany, patents the the diesel internal combustion engine |
1899-12-02 |
US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them |
1900-06-12 |
In Germany, the Reichstag pass the second Navy Bill, which calls for doubling the German Navy within 20 years |
1900-07-02 |
First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, at Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. |
1900-09-02 |
Telegraph use between Germany & US begins |
1900-10-16 |
Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, in which they agree to maintain the territorial integrity of China and support the 'open door' policy called for by US secretary of State |
1900-10-18 |
Count Bernard von Bulow becomes Chancellor of Germany, famous for first referring to Germany's need for 'place in the sun' and global empire |
1900-12-02 |
Exiled South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany, though the Kaiser refuses the meet him |
1900-12-25 |
Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany |
1901-03-06 |
In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany. |
1901-03-14 |
Germany's Chancellor von Bulow declares that the agreement Germany signed with England in October 1900, to restrain foreign aggression and maintain open trade, does not apply to Manchuria |
1901-07-12 |
In Germany a group of 104 aristocrats present a deceleration against dueling, though the tradition will go on |
1901-10-25 |
In Great Britain, Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Affairs Secretary, makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh; when word reaches Germany it leads to widespread agitation against the British and eventual breakdown of negotiations for an Anglo-German alliance |
1902-03-18 |
Turkey grants Germany syndicate the first concession to construct a railroad through Turkish territory to Baghdad, to be linked to Berlin |
1902-06-28 |
Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire renew their Triple Alliance for six more years |
1902-12-07 |
Britain and Germany issue an ultimatum to Venezuela demanding that President Cipriano Castro pay claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899 |
1904-02-22 |
The Hague Tribunal gives its decision in claims against Venezuela; it sets the sum to be paid by Venezuela and gives preferential treatment to the three powers that initiated the block - Britain, Germany, and Italy |
1904-03-03 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder. |
1904-07-06 |
Two Russian cruisers move into the Red Sea and begin to stop ships of Britain, Germany, and other nations they believe friendly to Japan |
1904-11-28 |
Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa |
1905-03-31 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany visits Tangier, Morocco and proclaims Germany's support of Moroccan independence and equal opportunity for all powers to trade there |
1905-04-06 |
Germany receives invitation from Sultan of Morocco to an international conference to discuss matters relating to Morocco |
1905-07-24 |
Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other's defense if attacked by European powers |
1906-06-05 |
Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet |
1906-08-15 |
Kind Edward VII of Britain visits Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations' naval forces |
1907-02-07 |
Conservative coalition take over Reichstag in Germany after rallying conservatives against the threat of a socialist government |
1907-06-15 |
The 2nd Hague Peace Conference meets in an attempt to stop the arms race; Germany resists, but conference does make important rules around the rights of neutral powers |
1907-08-03 |
Kaiser Wilhelm (Germany) meets with Tsar Nicholas (Russia) to discuss Germany's plan to build a railroad to Baghdad; the discussion helps move Russia towards Britain and eventually the Triple Alliance |
1907-08-16 |
Mulay Hafid is proclaimed the Sultan of Morocco by supporters leading to civil war; Mulay is supported by Germany while France supports the existing Sultan |
1907-10-27 |
The first trial of the so called Eulenberg Affair, which will rock the highest circles of Germany, ends |
1908-04-23 |
Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Netherlands & Sweden sign North Sea accord |
1908-06-09 |
Kind Edward VII of Great Britain visits Tsar Nicholas II at Reval, Russia, where the two discuss the growing power of Germany and British plans for reform in Macedonia |
1908-08-11 |
King Edward VII of Britain meets with Kaiser Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy |
1908-08-13 |
Kind Edward VII of Great Britain meets with Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria at Ischl; the King tries to persuade the Emperor to advise Germany against aggressive (anti-British) policies |
1908-10-28 |
The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries |
1909-02-08 |
France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco |
1909-03-21 |
Germany sends Russia a diplomatic notes requesting recognition of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and cessation of support to Serbia in the controversy |
1909-07-14 |
Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns |
1910-01-19 |
Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty |
1910-06-19 |
1st airship in service "Germany" |
1911-03-08 |
International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. |
1911-05-26 |
Germany passes legislation organizing Alsace and Lorraine as an autonomous state with a legislature |
1911-07-20 |
Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany |
1911-08-23 |
British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany |
1911-11-04 |
France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo |
1912-02-08 |
British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength |
1912-12-05 |
The Triple Alliance among Italy, Austria, and Germany (originally signed in 1882) is renewed for six years, beginning in 1914, a move inspired by instability in the Balkans |
1914-05-15 |
US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off' |
1914-07-05 |
Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia |
1914-07-25 |
Germany Socialist-Democrat Party declares: "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" in response to German support of Austria-Hungary |
1914-07-26 |
Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrived from Germany aboard Erskine Childers' yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens |
1914-08-01 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I) of Russia in WWI |
1914-08-01 |
France & Germany mobilize their troops at outbreak of WWI |
1914-08-02 |
Germany & Turkey sign secret treaty of alliance |
1914-08-03 |
Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I |
1914-08-04 |
WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany |
1914-08-04 |
WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener becomes British Minister of War after British declaration of war on Germany |
1914-08-06 |
WWI: Serbia declares war against Germany |
1914-08-08 |
Montenegro declares war on Germany |
1914-08-10 |
German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany |
1914-08-15 |
The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads |
1914-08-23 |
Japan declares war on Germany in World War I |
1914-09-22 |
Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, assumes command of the armed forced after having dismissed General Beyers because of his resistance to aiding British in the war against Germany |
1914-10-18 |
The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. |
1915-02-10 |
US President Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost' |
1915-02-18 |
Germany begins a blockade of Britain |
1915-02-22 |
Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war |
1915-02-23 |
Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin |
1915-04-04 |
Germany protests vigorously to the US, claiming it must insist that Britain lifts its blockade and assert American neutrality |
1915-04-14 |
Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo |
1915-04-22 |
1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I |
1915-05-04 |
Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary & Germany |
1915-05-13 |
US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations; however, the note is written only to 'pacify exited public opinion', according to Bryan |
1915-06-09 |
US President Wilson sends the second Lusitania note to Germany demanding reparations and prevention of 'recurrence of anything so obviously subversive of the principles of warfare'; Wilson refuses to recognize the 'war zone' that Germany has proclaimed around the British Isles |
1915-06-26 |
Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace |
1915-07-08 |
The Germans reply to Wilson's second Lusitania note by saying that Americans may sail on clearly marked neutral ships, but Germany does not deal with Wilson's other demands |
1915-07-09 |
Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa |
1915-07-21 |
Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly' |
1915-12-01 |
The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington |
1915-12-12 |
1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany |
1916-01-07 |
In response to pressure from President Wilson, Germany notifies the State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare |
1916-02-11 |
Germany and Austria-Hungary notify the US that they will sink any armed merchant ships starting on 1 March |
1916-02-16 |
The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships |
1916-02-16 |
The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania |
1916-02-22 |
The House-Grey Memorandum, drafted by US and Britain, states: 'Should the Allies accept [the American idea of a conference to end the war] and should Germany refuse it, the United States would "probably" enter the war against Germany' |
1916-03-01 |
Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic |
1916-03-09 |
Germany declares war against Portugal |
1916-04-09 |
The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection |
1916-04-12 |
Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement boards submarine U-19 at Wilmshaven, Germany, bound for a rendezvous with the Aud at Tralee |
1916-04-18 |
US Secretary of State Warns Germany that the USA may break diplomatic relations unless torpedo attacks on unarmed ships stop |
1916-05-04 |
At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare |
1916-06-07 |
Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun |
1916-07-09 |
1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany |
1916-07-11 |
Germany launches final offensive in the Battle of Verdun |
1916-08-28 |
Germany declares war on Romania |
1916-08-28 |
Italy declares war against Germany during WW I |
1916-11-05 |
Emperors Wilhelm II (Germany) and Franz Jozef I (Austria-Hungary) establish the kingdom of Poland |
1916-11-26 |
Greece declares war on Germany |
1917-01-31 |
Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship |
1917-02-03 |
US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany |
1917-02-28 |
AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I |
1917-04-02 |
US President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany |
1917-04-06 |
US declares war on Germany, enters World War I |
1917-08-14 |
China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I |
1917-10-15 |
World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. |
1917-10-17 |
1st British bombing of Germany |
1917-12-14 |
UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany |
1918-02-15 |
US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany off Ireland |
1918-02-16 |
Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day) |
1918-02-22 |
Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia |
1918-03-03 |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria & Russia sign |
1918-03-07 |
World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. |
1918-03-21 |
-28] During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive |
1918-04-23 |
Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea |
1918-08-13 |
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. |
1918-10-20 |
In order to secure an armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions |
1918-11-09 |
Republic Germany proclaimed |
1918-11-11 |
Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00 am |
1918-11-28 |
Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia & Germany abdicates |
1918-12-13 |
US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany |
1919-01-15 |
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. |
1919-02-11 |
Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany |
1919-03-03 |
Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike |
1919-03-11 |
General strike in Germany crushed |
1919-03-12 |
Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany) |
1919-06-20 |
Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria |
1919-07-31 |
Germany accepts Weimar Constitution |
1919-08-11 |
Weimar Republic begins in Germany |
1919-09-10 |
Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany |
1920-01-23 |
Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies |
1920-12-07 |
USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany |
1921-05-30 |
Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany |
1921-07-02 |
Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany |
1921-08-05 |
Treaty of Berlin: US & Germany sign separate peace treaty |
1921-08-25 |
US signs peace treaty with Germany |
1921-09-21 |
Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a BASF fertilizer producing plant explods in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed. |
1922-09-23 |
Berthold Brecht's "Drum in the Night" premieres in Germany |
1923-01-10 |
Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany) |
1923-07-29 |
KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany |
1923-10-03 |
Germany's Stresemann resigns |
1923-10-06 |
2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms |
1923-11-02 |
Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down |
1923-11-10 |
German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany |
1923-11-12 |
In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8 |
1923-11-20 |
Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark |
1923-11-23 |
Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD |
1923-12-08 |
Salary & price freeze in Germany |
1924-03-01 |
Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted |
1925-04-25 |
Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany |
1925-11-26 |
Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement |
1926-02-04 |
Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany |
1926-03-17 |
Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations |
1926-04-18 |
Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany |
1926-04-26 |
Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty |
1926-09-08 |
League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany |
1926-09-10 |
Germany joins League of Nations |
1926-09-11 |
Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining |
1927-01-31 |
Internationall allied military command in Germany disbands |
1927-10-12 |
Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet |
1928-10-04 |
KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet |
1929-09-17 |
British troops begin withdrawal from occupied Germany |
1929-10-30 |
The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany. |
1932-04-19 |
36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4 |
1932-06-16 |
Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights |
1932-08-13 |
Hitler refuses President Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany |
1932-12-03 |
Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany |
1933-02-02 |
Hermann Goering bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany |
1933-03-05 |
Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) |
1933-03-13 |
Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda |
1933-03-16 |
Hitler names Hjalmar Schacht, president of Bank of Germany |
1933-04-01 |
Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany |
1933-04-01 |
Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses |
1933-04-26 |
Jewish students are barred from school in Germany |
1933-05-02 |
In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions |
1933-05-10 |
Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany |
1933-07-14 |
Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness |
1933-07-14 |
NSDAP (Nazis) becomes only political party in Germany |
1933-07-20 |
Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. |
1933-08-01 |
Death penality for anti-fascists in Germany |
1933-10-14 |
Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations |
1933-10-17 |
Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany |
1933-11-12 |
Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany |
1934-01-01 |
Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". |
1934-01-26 |
Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years |
1934-03-20 |
Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany |
1934-04-06 |
418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany |
1934-05-02 |
Nazi-Germany begins People's court |
1934-06-26 |
Germany & Poland sign non-aggression treaty |
1935-01-13 |
Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany |
1935-03-07 |
Saar incorporated into Germany |
1935-04-12 |
Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers |
1935-06-26 |
Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany |
1935-09-15 |
Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany |
1936-02-06 |
4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
1936-02-16 |
4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
1936-03-04 |
1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany |
1936-03-11 |
British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany. |
1936-11-01 |
Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" |
1936-11-15 |
Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact |
1936-11-18 |
Germany & Italy recognize Spanish government of Francisco Franco |
1936-11-25 |
Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact |
1937-07-01 |
Rev Martin Niemöller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany |
1937-11-17 |
Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement |
1937-12-27 |
German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany |
1938-02-20 |
UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany |
1938-03-12 |
Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) |
1938-03-13 |
Anschluss - Austria annexed by Nazi Germany |
1938-04-10 |
Austria becomes a state of Germany |
1938-05-07 |
Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers" |
1938-05-14 |
England soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3 |
1938-07-25 |
Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany |
1938-09-27 |
Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany |
1938-09-30 |
Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany |
1938-10-01 |
Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) following the Munich Agreement. |
1938-10-07 |
Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J |
1938-10-10 |
Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland |
1938-11-08 |
A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris. |
1938-11-09 |
Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. |
1938-11-29 |
Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany |
1938-11-30 |
Germany bans Jews being lawyers |
1939-03-14 |
Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia |
1939-03-16 |
Germany occupies Czechoslovakia |
1939-03-21 |
Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland |
1939-03-22 |
Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany |
1939-03-31 |
Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany |
1939-05-07 |
Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis |
1939-08-23 |
USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact |
1939-08-24 |
Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact |
1939-08-27 |
Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor |
1939-09-01 |
WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig |
1939-09-03 |
WWII: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada |
1939-09-05 |
New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand' |
1939-09-06 |
South Africa declares war on Nazi-Germany |
1939-09-10 |
Canada declares war on Germany |
1939-09-10 |
Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany |
1939-09-11 |
Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany |
1939-09-25 |
Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I |
1939-09-30 |
Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland |
1939-10-08 |
Germany annexes Western Poland |
1939-10-30 |
USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews |
1939-12-22 |
125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany |
1939-12-22 |
99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany |
1940-03-15 |
Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest |
1940-03-18 |
Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain |
1940-04-09 |
Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders) |
1940-05-14 |
Nazis bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany |
1940-05-17 |
Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France |
1940-05-28 |
Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up |
1940-05-31 |
Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany |
1940-06-09 |
Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II |
1940-06-17 |
France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II |
1940-06-17 |
Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland |
1940-06-22 |
France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms |
1940-07-03 |
ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany |
1940-07-03 |
British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it. |
1940-07-09 |
RAF bombs Germany |
1940-07-20 |
Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands |
1940-08-07 |
Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II |
1940-08-25 |
First British night bombing of Germany (Berlin) |
1940-09-27 |
Nazi Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis) |
1940-11-16 |
World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg. |
1940-11-26 |
Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw |
1940-12-29 |
Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) |
1941-04-06 |
Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die) |
1941-04-11 |
Germany blitzes Conventry, England |
1941-04-17 |
World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. |
1941-04-21 |
Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany |
1941-05-13 |
Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Chancellery in Germany |
1941-05-19 |
Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis |
1941-05-20 |
Germany invades Crete |
1941-05-27 |
FDR declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor |
1941-06-01 |
Germany bans all Catholic publications |
1941-06-01 |
Germany occupies Crete |
1941-06-18 |
Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany |
1941-06-22 |
Germany attacks the Soviet Union & occupies the Baltic states |
1941-06-22 |
Germany, Italy & Romania declare war on Soviet Union |
1941-06-23 |
Germany occupies Telz, Lithuana |
1941-06-27 |
Bialystok Poland falls to Germany |
1941-06-30 |
World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine. |
1941-08-12 |
French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany |
1941-09-01 |
Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David |
1941-09-08 |
Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins |
1941-10-16 |
Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow |
1941-10-25 |
Germany attacks Moscow |
1941-10-31 |
Prior to US joining WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James |
1941-11-12 |
Germany's drive to take Moscow halted |
1941-11-27 |
USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germany to retreat |
1941-12-09 |
China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy |
1941-12-11 |
Germany & Italy declare war on US |
1942-02-12 |
3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany |
1942-02-27 |
1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-03-29 |
The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. |
1942-05-22 |
Mexico declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan |
1942-06-07 |
Germany Armys march into Sebastopol |
1942-06-13 |
1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km |
1942-06-13 |
Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island |
1942-06-23 |
World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. |
1942-06-25 |
British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) |
1942-07-04 |
US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins |
1942-07-07 |
Germany troop march into Woronezj |
1942-07-17 |
Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-07 |
Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-17 |
Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-21 |
Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-22 |
Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy |
1942-08-24 |
Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-26 |
Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-27 |
Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy |
1942-08-28 |
Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-30 |
Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg |
1942-09-04 |
Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-07 |
Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-11 |
Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-21 |
Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-23 |
Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-11-09 |
Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-11-11 |
During WW II Germany completes the occupation of France |
1942-11-11 |
Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany |
1942-12-05 |
Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to work |
1942-12-24 |
1st powered flight of V-1 'buzz bomb', Peenemunde, Germany |
1943-01-27 |
1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) |
1943-01-31 |
Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan |
1943-02-05 |
Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission |
1943-02-11 |
Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1943-02-22 |
Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany. |
1943-03-05 |
RAF bombs Essen Germany |
1943-04-30 |
Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry |
1943-05-26 |
Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam |
1943-06-01 |
Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die |
1943-06-29 |
Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe |
1943-07-13 |
Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany |
1943-07-17 |
RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde |
1943-07-31 |
Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany |
1943-08-29 |
Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany |
1943-10-13 |
Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany |
1943-11-21 |
7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany |
1943-12-17 |
Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944-01-15 |
European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany |
1944-01-27 |
Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed |
1944-03-04 |
Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy |
1944-03-18 |
Nazi Germany occupies Hungary |
1944-03-25 |
Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome |
1944-03-25 |
RAF Flight Sgt Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall was broken by pine trees and soft snow, and he suffered only a sprained leg. |
1944-04-13 |
Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944-05-30 |
Transport number 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany |
1944-06-13 |
Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks |
1944-07-19 |
1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany |
1944-07-20 |
Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Germany army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg. |
1944-07-29 |
Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours |
1944-07-31 |
Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944-08-02 |
Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany |
1944-08-22 |
Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944-09-04 |
Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi Germany |
1944-09-05 |
"Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany |
1944-09-08 |
Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany |
1944-09-11 |
US 5th Armored Division is 1st allied force to enter nazi-Germany |
1944-09-12 |
US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time |
1944-11-10 |
German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany |
1944-12-14 |
Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany |
1944-12-31 |
World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany. |
1945-01-20 |
The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany |
1945-02-09 |
-Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen |
1945-02-13 |
Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die |
1945-02-13 |
USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die |
1945-02-16 |
Venezuela declares war on Nazi Germany |
1945-02-24 |
Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany |
1945-02-25 |
World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. |
1945-03-04 |
Finland declares war on nazi-Germany |
1945-03-07 |
US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine |
1945-03-10 |
Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine |
1945-03-16 |
Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers. |
1945-03-21 |
During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany |
1945-03-24 |
Generals Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany |
1945-04-04 |
US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany |
1945-04-14 |
WWII: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany |
1945-04-16 |
US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II |
1945-04-16 |
Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, is liberated by American troops. |
1945-04-25 |
Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission |
1945-04-25 |
Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany |
1945-04-25 |
"Elbe Day" - US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River during WWII invasion of Germany |
1945-04-29 |
US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany |
1945-05-01 |
About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army |
1945-05-05 |
World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases. |
1945-05-08 |
V-E Day; after Germany signs unconditional surrender it is announced WWII has ended in Europe |
1945-06-04 |
US, Russia, Britain & France agree to split occupied Germany |
1945-06-05 |
USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany |
1945-06-17 |
Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day) |
1945-11-20 |
24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany |
1946-04-21 |
Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany |
1948-06-20 |
Deutsche Mark introduced in West Germany |
1948-07-28 |
I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die |
1948-09-24 |
Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, DC |
1949-05-23 |
Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) |
1949-07-29 |
Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends |
1949-09-21 |
Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation |
1949-11-29 |
Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700 |
1950-06-10 |
Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens |
1950-07-12 |
ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws |
1950-08-23 |
West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation |
1950-08-29 |
International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952 |
1950-09-14 |
Western allies rearm West Germany |
1951-03-13 |
Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany |
1951-03-14 |
Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany |
1951-04-18 |
France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community |
1951-05-01 |
600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany |
1951-07-09 |
US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany |
1951-07-26 |
Netherlands ends state of war with Germany |
1951-10-19 |
US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany |
1951-12-09 |
Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germany |
1952-03-01 |
Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain |
1953-03-15 |
West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1 |
1953-06-17 |
Riots in East Germany for reunification |
1953-09-21 |
Allied forces form West Germany |
1954-07-04 |
West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern |
1954-07-17 |
Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany |
1954-10-22 |
West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
1954-10-23 |
Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany |
1955-01-25 |
Russia ends state of war with Germany |
1955-03-25 |
E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR |
1955-05-05 |
West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers |
1955-05-06 |
West Germany joins NATO |
1955-05-14 |
Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania |
1956-08-17 |
Federal Constitutional Court bans the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in West Germany |
1957-02-01 |
Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany |
1957-09-15 |
Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany |
1957-10-22 |
Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany |
1958-11-27 |
USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany |
1959-05-01 |
West Germany introduces 5 day work week |
1959-06-23 |
Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career). |
1959-07-01 |
Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany |
1959-07-01 |
Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany |
1959-12-25 |
A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas |
1960-02-24 |
US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1 |
1960-04-08 |
Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties |
1960-08-30 |
East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin |
1960-09-30 |
West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany |
1960-12-01 |
Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany for accusation of attempted arson. |
1961-08-13 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany |
1961-08-20 |
East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13 |
1961-08-23 |
East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin |
1962-01-24 |
28 refugees escape from East to West Germany |
1962-02-07 |
Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 |
1962-10-08 |
Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason. |
1963-01-22 |
The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. |
1963-08-01 |
Germany FR annexes Elten village |
1963-11-07 |
Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days. |
1964-03-10 |
US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany |
1964-06-06 |
Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume. |
1964-06-11 |
West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia |
1964-09-09 |
German DR government allows short visits to West Germany |
1965-02-26 |
West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania |
1965-03-14 |
Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany |
1965-05-12 |
Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations |
1965-05-13 |
Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel |
1965-09-16 |
Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany |
1966-07-30 |
England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London |
1968-04-08 |
New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect |
1968-09-28 |
Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hr |
1969-02-25 |
Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet. |
1969-03-05 |
Gustav Heinemann elected president of West Germany |
1969-10-21 |
Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West Germany |
1970-02-01 |
West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract |
1970-03-21 |
Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports. |
1970-05-14 |
The Red Army Faction is established in Germany. |
1970-08-31 |
59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0) |
1970-12-07 |
West Germany & Poland normalize relations |
1971-03-01 |
Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM |
1972-03-04 |
Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) |
1972-06-18 |
West Germany wins soccer world championship |
1972-09-06 |
Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre |
1972-09-14 |
West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations |
1972-12-21 |
Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany |
1973-05-18 |
Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany |
1973-06-25 |
Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m |
1973-10-01 |
USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens |
1974-02-13 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship |
1974-07-07 |
West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich |
1974-12-10 |
Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun |
1975-06-08 |
2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 |
1975-07-08 |
Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany |
1975-08-03 |
Poland & West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans |
1976-06-24 |
1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany |
1976-06-27 |
Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda |
1976-06-27 |
Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers members Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany |
1977-04-28 |
Andreas Baader & members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany |
1977-05-25 |
"Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released |
1978-01-19 |
The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003. |
1978-05-04 |
Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany |
1978-09-20 |
Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany |
1979-05-23 |
West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president |
1980-03-14 |
Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay |
1980-05-26 |
Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8" |
1980-08-01 |
Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record |
1980-11-13 |
Gabriella Brum, 18, of West Germany crowned 30th Miss World; she resigns the next day because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend |
1980-11-15 |
Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany |
1981-06-13 |
39 Unification church couples wed in Germany |
1982-04-24 |
150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany |
1982-07-11 |
Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid |
1982-07-25 |
20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0) |
1982-07-31 |
Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria & France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) |
1982-08-17 |
The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany. |
1982-08-29 |
The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. |
1982-10-01 |
West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl |
1983-06-02 |
1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" released in Germany |
1983-06-16 |
Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany |
1983-06-25 |
Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m |
1983-07-24 |
21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1) |
1984-01-28 |
Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany |
1984-06-09 |
Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts |
1984-06-09 |
Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD |
1984-07-20 |
Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m |
1984-07-21 |
Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s |
1985-10-06 |
Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia |
1985-12-22 |
74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2) |
1986-06-19 |
Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup |
1986-06-21 |
Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) |
1986-06-29 |
Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany) |
1986-08-29 |
Heike Drechsler of East Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s) |
1987-03-23 |
West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns |
1987-04-27 |
US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II |
1987-05-14 |
"Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany |
1987-08-02 |
25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) |
1988-06-09 |
"Bloodsport (1987)" premieres in Germany |
1988-08-28 |
70 killed in crash of three Italian air force fighters at air show at Ramstein, Germany |
1988-12-17 |
77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1) |
1988-12-19 |
Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated |
1989-09-30 |
Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague. |
1989-10-01 |
Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany |
1989-12-01 |
East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution |
1989-12-17 |
78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2) |
1990-02-13 |
US, Britain & France give Germany OK to reunify |
1990-03-18 |
1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists |
1990-04-24 |
West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st |
1990-05-18 |
East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty |
1990-06-21 |
Parliaments of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens |
1990-06-30 |
East & West Germany merge their economies |
1990-07-08 |
Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup in Rome |
1990-08-23 |
East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3 |
1990-08-29 |
C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, killing 13 |
1990-08-31 |
East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems |
1990-09-24 |
East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact |
1990-10-02 |
Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany |
1990-10-02 |
Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors |
1990-10-03 |
Reunification of East & West Germany. West German flag raised above Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight |
1990-10-04 |
Regional elections held, in what is East Germany |
1990-12-02 |
1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany |
1991-02-13 |
Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel |
1992-04-12 |
Earthquake rocks Germany |
1992-07-19 |
30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) |
1993-05-29 |
Neo-Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen, Germany |
1993-07-25 |
31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) |
1993-10-31 |
Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million |
1993-12-05 |
82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1) |
1994-03-27 |
The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany. |
1994-04-18 |
23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45 |
1994-05-23 |
Roman Herzog elected president of Germany |
1994-06-09 |
"Hudsucker Proxy" premieres in Germany |
1994-06-17 |
1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago |
1994-07-24 |
32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) |
1994-07-30 |
Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany |
1994-07-31 |
102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany |
1994-10-09 |
Darmstadtium (element 110) created in Darmstadt, Germany |
1994-11-17 |
3rd Germany government of Kohl forms |
1995-04-17 |
24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11 |
1995-12-21 |
Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup |
1996-01-27 |
Germany celebrates its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day |
1996-04-15 |
25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6 |
1997-01-10 |
Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map |
1998-06-03 |
Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths. |
1998-06-14 |
World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany |
1999-02-24 |
The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. |
2000-10-07 |
The last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England by Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium. |
2002-04-26 |
Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. |
2002-06-30 |
Brazil beats Germany 2-0 for soccer's 17th World Cup in South Korea & Japan |
2002-07-01 |
A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71. |
2005-10-10 |
Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year. |
2005-11-22 |
Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. |
2006-01-12 |
The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council. |
2006-07-09 |
Italy beats France 5-3 for soccer's 18th World Cup in Germany |
2006-07-27 |
The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance. |
2007-01-18 |
The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm off the coast of Devon, England. |
2007-09-05 |
Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. |
2008-11-13 |
Germany's economy, Europe's largest , contracted by 0.5% in the third quarter after GDP fell 0.4% in the second quarter, putting it in recession for the first time in five years |
2008-11-14 |
Eurozone officially slips into recession for the first time since its creation in 1999, pushed down by recessions in Germany and Italy |
2009-03-03 |
The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses. |
2009-03-11 |
Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany. |
2009-11-13 |
Germany's growth of 0.7% in the third quarter helps lead the Eurozone out of the recession after providing overall growth of 0.4% in the same period, with the whole European Union growing 0.2%, it is reported today |
2010-02-24 |
Europe risks a double-dip recession after bad results emerge from France, Germany and Italy, it is reported today; the Eurozone only grew by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2009 |
2011-05-02 |
The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak. |
2012-02-17 |
The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal |
2012-03-18 |
Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly |
2012-05-30 |
A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre |
2013-12-17 |
Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term |
2014-07-08 |
Germany defeat Brazil by a record 7-1 to make it to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final |
2014-07-13 |
Germany defeats Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final |
2014-11-09 |
Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance |
2016-02-09 |
Train Crash in Germany Kills at Least 9, Injures 150 |
2016-07-25 |
Syrian man dies carrying bomb in Germany; 12 injured |
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Germany - Notable Birthdays
Germany - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1074-02-12 |
Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101) |
1194-12-26 |
Frederick II, Iesi Italy, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Romans (Germany), Sicily and Jerusalem |
1218-05-01 |
Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291) |
1228-04-25 |
Conrad IV, Andria Italy, King of Germany, Jerusalem and Sicily (d. 1254) |
1276-10-04 |
Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311) |
1368-02-15 |
Sigismund, Nornberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37) |
1397-08-10 |
Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439) |
1397-08-16 |
Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany |
1471-05-21 |
Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker |
1471-08-27 |
George the Bearded, Meissen, Germany, Duke of Saxony (1500-39) (d. 1539) |
1483-11-10 |
Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism, (d.1546) |
1494-03-24 |
Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) |
1498-12-19 |
Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist |
1501-01-17 |
Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants) |
1503-10-23 |
Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539) |
1511-11-22 |
Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table) |
1552-07-18 |
Rudolf II, of Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612) |
1556-08-10 |
Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer |
1564-03-09 |
David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discoved variable star) |
1571-02-15 |
Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer (Syntagma music) |
1571-12-27 |
Johannes Kepler, Weil der Stadt, Germany, astronomer (planetary Motion), (d. 1630) |
1575-07-25 |
Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer |
1587-11-16 |
Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha) |
1597-12-23 |
Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" |
1604-07-08 |
Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer (Arien oder Melodien) |
1633-09-08 |
Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654) |
1648-08-09 |
Johann Michael Bach, Arnstadt Germany, composer (In Dulci Jubilo), (d. 1694) |
1653-01-07 |
Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia) |
1653-05-30 |
Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676) |
1660-05-28 |
George I, Hanover, Germany, King of England (1714-27) |
1681-03-14 |
Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer |
1681-09-28 |
Johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer |
1684-09-18 |
Johann Gottfried Walther, Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer |
1685-02-23 |
George Frideric Handel, Halle Germany, baroque composer and (Messiah, Water Music) |
1685-03-31 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany, composer (Mattheus-Passion) |
1728-02-21 |
Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian Tsar (1762) and husband of Catherine the Great |
1729-01-22 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany, critic/dramatist |
1750-03-16 |
Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer |
1759-11-10 |
Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805) |
1762-01-23 |
Christian A Vulpius, Germany, writer (Rinaldo Rinaldini) |
1763-07-17 |
John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader |
1770-12-16 |
Ludwig van Beethoven, Bonn, Germany, composer (5th Symphony, Ode to Joy), (d. 1827) |
1772-03-10 |
Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde) |
1775-01-27 |
Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity) |
1776-05-04 |
Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist |
1777-10-18 |
Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea) |
1784-04-05 |
Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust) |
1785-01-04 |
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, philologist and folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" (d. 1863) |
1786-02-24 |
Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales) |
1786-11-18 |
Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer (Der Freischutz), [or 19] |
1787-03-06 |
Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum) |
1788-02-22 |
Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist) |
1791-09-05 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur) |
1793-04-15 |
Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers |
1795-10-15 |
Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia (1840-61)/Germany (1849-61) |
1797-01-04 |
Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map) |
1797-12-13 |
Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt) |
1801-11-03 |
Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books |
1804-11-27 |
Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi) |
1805-02-13 |
Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist |
1808-01-27 |
David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life) |
1808-10-24 |
Carl Bernhard von Cotta, Meiningen, Germany, German geologist |
1809-07-09 |
Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist |
1811-03-31 |
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner) |
1812-06-08 |
Robert Schumann, Zwickau Germany, composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik) |
1813-03-20 |
Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High) |
1813-05-22 |
Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman) |
1813-07-26 |
Isaac Baumann, Kassel Hesse, Germany, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa |
1815-04-01 |
Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90) |
1815-10-31 |
Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician (theory of functions) |
1816-01-23 |
Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician |
1819-03-26 |
Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist |
1819-03-31 |
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901) |
1820-11-28 |
Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator |
1821-02-16 |
Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa) |
1822-01-02 |
Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) |
1826-01-06 |
Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
1830-01-07 |
Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes) |
1830-03-15 |
Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910) |
1831-06-28 |
Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto) |
1833-05-07 |
Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer |
1834-03-17 |
Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle |
1838-01-06 |
Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer |
1838-07-08 |
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Baden Germany, inventor (rigid dirigibles), (d. 1917) |
1840-01-23 |
Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company) |
1840-09-27 |
Thomas Nast, Landau Germany, political cartoonist of late 1800s America |
1840-09-28 |
Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs |
1840-11-21 |
Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia |
1842-02-22 |
Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company) |
1843-08-31 |
Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919) |
1846-01-05 |
Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908) |
1846-05-08 |
Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor) |
1847-03-27 |
Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910) |
1848-11-08 |
Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift) |
1849-04-21 |
Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization |
1849-05-03 |
Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929) |
1849-11-22 |
Friedrich von Bernhardi, German historian (Germany & the Next War) |
1850-02-22 |
Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium) |
1850-06-06 |
Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909) |
1850-11-09 |
Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist |
1851-05-20 |
Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record) |
1853-09-02 |
Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909) |
1854-03-14 |
Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908) |
1854-03-23 |
Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony) |
1854-05-11 |
Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype) |
1854-09-01 |
Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal) |
1857-09-08 |
Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936) |
1859-04-08 |
Edmund Husserl, Germany, philosopher (founded Phenomenology) |
1862-11-15 |
Gerhart Hauptmann, Obersalzbrunn, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912), (d. 1946) |
1863-06-02 |
Paul Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia) |
1864-06-11 |
Richard Georg Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Don Quixote) |
1864-11-11 |
Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911) |
1865-02-09 |
Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl |
1865-04-01 |
Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925) |
1865-04-09 |
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Germany, experiment with AC electricity |
1865-04-09 |
Erich Ludendorff, general (Germany) |
1865-04-22 |
Halbert Brown, My Four Years in Germany |
1866-01-31 |
Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man) |
1866-06-26 |
Josef Swickard, Coblenz Germany, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities) |
1867-07-08 |
Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg) |
1867-09-07 |
Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor (Foreign Correspondant) Dies 1952 |
1867-12-22 |
[Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, Germany. Soldier and politician |
1868-07-12 |
Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal) |
1868-12-24 |
Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21) |
1870-01-06 |
Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944) |
1871-03-27 |
Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas |
1872-04-17 |
Mark M. Dintenfass, My Four Years in Germany |
1873-03-10 |
Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew) |
1873-06-03 |
Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician (Nobel-1936) |
1873-06-29 |
Leo Frobenius, Berlin, Germany, German ethnologist and archaeologist (African cultures) |
1874-04-15 |
Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919) |
1874-07-05 |
Eugen Fischer, Bade Germany, Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), (d. 1967) |
1874-07-28 |
Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator (Essay on Man) |
1875-01-21 |
Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies |
1875-02-04 |
Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics) |
1875-06-06 |
Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929) |
1875-12-02 |
Frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor (King Kong, Son of Kong) |
1876-01-05 |
Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949) |
1876-01-05 |
Konrad Adenauer, Germany Chooses |
1876-09-15 |
Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil) |
1879-02-06 |
Carl Ramsauer, Berlin, Germany, professor of physics and a research physicist (Ramsauer-Townsend effect) |
1880-05-29 |
Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West) |
1880-06-29 |
Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff ("July 20th plot") |
1881-03-23 |
Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53) |
1881-04-16 |
E.F.L. Wood, A New Germany: 1933-1939 |
1881-07-27 |
Hans Fischer, Munich Germany, physicist (Nobel 1930), (d. 1945) |
1881-12-12 |
Harry M. Warner, My Four Years in Germany |
1882-05-06 |
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d. 1951) |
1882-12-11 |
Max Born, Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954) |
1883-02-23 |
Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher |
1883-05-18 |
Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect (Bauhaus school of design) |
1883-10-05 |
Ernst Pittschau, Germany Year Zero |
1883-12-26 |
Carl Oscar Ahues, Germany, International Chess Master (1950) |
1884-01-21 |
Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter |
1884-01-26 |
Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist (indians) |
1884-01-31 |
Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963) |
1884-03-26 |
Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905) |
1884-04-12 |
Otto Meyerhof, Germany, psychologist/biochemist (Nobel-1922) |
1884-06-23 |
Werner Krauss, Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Joyless Street) |
1884-07-23 |
Emil Jannings, Germany, actor (Faust, Passion, Blue Angel) |
1884-10-11 |
Sig Ruman, [Siegfried Rumann], Hamburg Germany |
1885-03-20 |
Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe |
1885-05-14 |
Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel) |
1885-06-12 |
Werner Erich Josten, Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle) |
1886-03-18 |
Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist |
1887-12-17 |
Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947) |
1888-02-27 |
Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello) |
1888-11-24 |
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Cologne Germany, actor (Metropolis, Spies) |
1889-01-08 |
Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor (Haunted Castle) |
1889-04-20 |
Adolf Hitler, Braunau, Austria, Austrian-born German dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45) |
1889-09-26 |
Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time) |
1889-10-03 |
Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1935) |
1890-01-07 |
Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star (Deception) |
1890-12-05 |
Fritz Lang, Germany, director (M, Metropolis) |
1891-01-08 |
Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954) |
1891-04-02 |
Max Ernst, Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism) |
1891-05-13 |
Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl) |
1891-06-21 |
Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music) |
1892-01-28 |
Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor, producer and film director (Love Parade) |
1892-09-22 |
Hans Albers, Hamburg Germany, actor (Blue Angel) |
1892-12-06 |
Lina Carstens, Wiesbaden Germany, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug) |
1893-01-22 |
Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary) |
1893-10-17 |
Fritz Ascher, Berlin Germany, German Expressionist artist |
1893-12-13 |
Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day) |
1894-02-25 |
Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!) |
1894-06-25 |
Hermann Oberth, Germany, founded modern astronautics (V2/Redstone) |
1894-12-19 |
Paul Dessau, Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33) |
1895-03-02 |
Felix Bressart, Germany, actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads) |
1895-07-10 |
Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969) |
1895-09-01 |
Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel) |
1895-11-25 |
Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unter dem Zimbelstern) |
1895-12-27 |
Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor (Holiday in Havana) |
1897-02-04 |
Ludwig Erhard, chancellor of Germany (CDU) |
1897-04-23 |
Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany) |
1897-07-05 |
Paul Ben-Haim, [Frankenburger], Munich Germany, Israeli composer |
1897-10-29 |
[Paul] Joseph Goebbels, Rheydt, Germany, Nazi Reich Minister of Information and Propaganda |
1897-11-12 |
Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor |
1898-02-10 |
Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer |
1898-11-11 |
Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher |
1899-01-22 |
Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany) |
1899-03-10 |
Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007) |
1899-07-23 |
Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany |
1899-12-22 |
Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf, Germany, actor and director (M, Faust) |
1900-01-28 |
Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner (Olympic-1928) |
1900-03-02 |
Kurt J Weill, Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany) |
1900-03-23 |
Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society) |
1900-10-15 |
Fritz Feld, Berlin Germany, actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus) |
1901-01-03 |
Eric Voegelin, Germany, US philosopher (Order & History) |
1901-05-17 |
Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige) |
1901-06-23 |
Paul Verhoeven, Unna Germany, director |
1901-07-07 |
Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor (Freddy Unter Fremden) |
1901-12-27 |
Marlene Dietrich [Maria Losch], Berlin Germany, singer/actress (Blue Angel), (d. 1992) |
1902-02-15 |
Johanna Karl-Lory, Germany Pale Mother |
1902-03-21 |
Carl Jaffe, Hamburg Germany, actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement) |
1902-06-15 |
Erik Erikson, Frankfurt Germany, American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase "identity crisis" |
1902-08-13 |
Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine) |
1902-08-22 |
Leni Riefenstahl, [Helene Bertha Amalie], Germany, film director (Triumph of the Will) and actress (Tiefland) |
1902-08-25 |
Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus & Elidco) |
1903-10-08 |
Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1928) |
1904-09-14 |
Richard Mohaupt, Breslau Germany, composer (Bucolica) |
1904-9-13 |
Leon Johnson, Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944 |
1905-01-17 |
Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931) |
1905-06-19 |
Max Kolpé, Germany Year Zero |
1905-09-27 |
Ernest Baier, Germany, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1936) |
1905-11-09 |
Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann |
1906-03-19 |
Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer |
1906-04-23 |
Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise) |
1906-06-09 |
Tonio Selwart, Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja) |
1906-10-14 |
Hannah Arendt, Hanover Germany, political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism) |
1907-03-24 |
Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers) |
1907-06-25 |
J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist (atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963) |
1907-08-13 |
Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer |
1908-03-26 |
Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935) |
1908-09-05 |
Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Berlin Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer |
1909-03-19 |
Otto John, Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944 |
1909-04-24 |
Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany) |
1909-09-09 |
Jane Baxter, [Feodora Forde], Bremen Germany, actress (We Live Again) |
1910-01-19 |
Willi Schmidt, Germany, director |
1910-03-16 |
Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet) |
1910-03-27 |
Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932) |
1910-06-14 |
Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72) |
1910-08-01 |
Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), Stuttgart Germany, photojournalist |
1910-10-28 |
Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint |
1910-11-11 |
Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1952) |
1910-9-24 |
Isobel Lillian Steele, I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany |
1911-03-16 |
Peter Schubert, Germany in Autumn |
1911-04-01 |
Gunther Rennert, Essen Germany, opera director/producer |
1911-04-26 |
Marianne Hoppe, Rostock Germany (Bei Thea, Liebrauen) |
1911-06-29 |
Bernhard, Germany, Prince (Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands) |
1911-07-28 |
Gerhard Stoeck, Germany, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1936) |
1911-10-15 |
James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author (Lion Game) |
1911-11-29 |
Klaus E J Fuchs, Rüsselsheim Germany, German/British atomic physicist/spy |
1912-01-21 |
Konrad Bloch, Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964) |
1912-03-23 |
Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936) |
1912-03-23 |
Werner von Braun, Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars) |
1912-06-09 |
Ingolf Dahl, Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso) |
1912-06-18 |
Henry Brandon, Berlin Germany, actor (Drums of Fu Manchu) |
1912-08-25 |
Erich Honecker, Germany, Pres (East Germany) |
1912-09-19 |
Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77) |
1912-11-28 |
Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany) |
1913-02-25 |
Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger) |
1913-07-02 |
Edith Heerdegen, Dresden Germany, actress (Serpent's Egg, Monpti) |
1913-07-16 |
Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor (Brain, Wages of Fear) |
1913-11-24 |
Gisela Mauermeyer, Germany, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1936) |
1914-03-24 |
Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian) |
1914-05-24 |
Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar) |
1914-07-01 |
Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936) |
1914-09-21 |
John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO (Metromedia)/billionaire |
1914-12-14 |
Karl Carstens, German (CDU)/pres Germany (1979-84) |
1915-02-17 |
Stuart Hood, Nemesis: Germany - February-May 1945 |
1915-08-25 |
Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio) |
1915-09-06 |
Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, nazi/minister of defense (1956-62) |
1916-11-08 |
Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade) |
1917-04-01 |
Franz-Otto Krüger, Germany Year Zero |
1917-04-16 |
Charlotte Salomon, Berlin Germany, German-Jewish artist |
1918-03-10 |
Guenther Rall, Germany's Last Ace - Part 1 |
1918-04-06 |
Karen Verne, Berlin Germany, actress (Madame X) |
1918-06-11 |
Heinz Petruo, Germany Pale Mother |
1918-10-20 |
Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna) |
1918-11-20 |
Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936) |
1918-12-23 |
Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (SPD, 1974- ) |
1919-04-20 |
Axel von dem Bussche, The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 |
1919-06-12 |
Uta Hagen, Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting |
1920-03-20 |
Werner Klemperer, Cologne Germany, actor (Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes) |
1920-04-15 |
Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94) |
1920-08-16 |
Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, US writer (Hollywood: A Novel) |
1920-10-08 |
Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936) |
1920-10-13 |
Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor (Mr Shorofsky-Fame) |
1920-12-12 |
Otto Friebel, Germany in Autumn |
1921-01-20 |
Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer |
1921-03-25 |
Simone Signoret, Weisbaden Germany, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top) |
1921-05-12 |
Joseph Beuys, Germany, avant-garde painter/politician |
1921-07-23 |
Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor (Possession) |
1921-12-21 |
William Reid, Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944 |
1922-08-15 |
Lukas Foss, [Fuchs], Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie) |
1922-09-14 |
Michel Auclair, [Vujovic], Germany, actor (Story of a Love Story) |
1922-12-19 |
Walter Höllerer, Germany Pale Mother |
1923-01-19 |
Hellmut Lange, Hitler: A Film from Germany |
1923-08-26 |
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Germany, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70) |
1925-01-13 |
Rosemary Murphy, Munich Germany, actress (Margaret-Lucas Tanner) |
1925-02-22 |
Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician |
1925-03-16 |
Cornell Borchers, Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul) |
1925-03-22 |
Wolfgang Bächler, Germany in Autumn |
1925-04-26 |
Frank Hahn, Berlin, Germany, British economist (Hahn's Problem), (d. 2013) |
1925-05-28 |
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust), (d. 2012) |
1925-12-28 |
Hildegard Knef, Ulm Germany, actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique), (d. 2002) |
1926-02-03 |
Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) |
1926-03-30 |
Werner Torkanowsky, Berlin Germany, conductor (New Orleans Symph) |
1926-04-18 |
Gunter Meisner, Germany, actor (Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum) |
1926-06-06 |
Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio) |
1926-07-03 |
William Roll, Bremen, Germany, parapsychologist (The Poltergeist, Unsolved Mysteries), (d. 2012) |
1926-07-24 |
Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956) |
1926-09-25 |
John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West) |
1926-10-12 |
Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer (Nardo, Italy) |
1926-10-20 |
Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956) |
1927-03-16 |
Karlheinz Boehm, Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural) |
1927-04-16 |
Pope Benedict XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger], Marktl, Bavaria, Germany, Catholic Pope (2005-2013) |
1928-01-27 |
Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany |
1928-03-16 |
Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera) |
1928-06-04 |
Ruth Westheimer, Germany, sex therapist (WYNY-FM) |
1928-11-20 |
Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor (Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s) |
1928-12-08 |
Ulric Neisser, Kiel, Germany, America psychologist (Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, Bell Curve task force head), (d. 2012) |
1929-04-06 |
Andre Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist |
1929-06-10 |
Harald Juhnke, Berlin Germany, actor (Guitars of Love) |
1929-06-12 |
Anne Frank, Frankfurt Germany, Dutch Jewish Nazi victim/diarist (Diary of Anne Frank) |
1930-04-03 |
Helmut Kohl, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Politician and Chancellor of West Germany 1982-90, Reunified Germany 1990-98 |
1930-07-03 |
Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968) |
1930-09-26 |
Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58) |
1930-09-27 |
Igor Kipnis, Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield) |
1931-01-08 |
Bill Graham, Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore) |
1931-04-27 |
Hans Kwiet, Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany |
1932-10-05 |
Neal Ascherson, A New Germany: 1933-1939 |
1933-09-10 |
Karl Lagerfeld, Hamburg Germany, German fashion designer (Chanel) |
1933-12-04 |
Horst Buchholz, Berlin Germany, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe) |
1934-06-26 |
Josef Sommer, Germany, actor (Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March) |
1934-09-02 |
Hilla Becher (née Wobeser), Potsdam Germany, German artist, worked collaboratively with Bernd Becher her husband |
1935-07-29 |
Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor (Dresden State Opera 1961) |
1935-10-02 |
Gisela Stein, Germany Pale Mother |
1935-12-11 |
Ferdinand A. Porsche, Stuttgart, Germany, car designer (Porsche 911), (d. 2012) |
1936-01-11 |
Eve Hesse, Hamburg Germany, German born Jewish-American sculptor. |
1936-01-23 |
Horst Mahler, Germany in Autumn |
1936-02-29 |
Alwin Schockemohle, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1936-08-12 |
Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist (Right to Life, Dripper Boxes) |
1936-11-15 |
Wolf Biermann, Germany in Autumn |
1937-02-08 |
Manfred Krug, Duisburg Germany, actor (Boxer) |
1937-02-20 |
Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988) |
1937-03-19 |
Egon Krenz, President of East Germany |
1937-03-20 |
Helmut Recknagel, Germany, 90m ski jump (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1937-04-16 |
Hugh Raggett, A New Germany: 1933-1939 |
1937-10-29 |
Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964) |
1937-9-01 |
Charles Douglas Home, Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944 |
1938-11-23 |
Herbert Achternbusch, Munich Germany, actor (Hedes, Mix Wix, Wohin) |
1938-12-13 |
Heino, Heino - Made in Germany |
1939-07-19 |
Rainer von Artenfels, Hitler: A Film from Germany |
1940-01-19 |
Bernhard Sinkel, Germany in Autumn |
1940-02-20 |
Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor |
1940-07-27 |
Alf Brustellin, Germany in Autumn |
1940-11-05 |
Elke Sommer, [Elke Schletz], Berlin Germany, actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Oscar) |
1940-11-20 |
Helma Sanders-Brahms, Emden Germany, director (Apple Trees, Manoever) |
1940-11-20 |
Helma Sanders-Brahms, Germany Pale Mother |
1940-11-25 |
Richard Furrer, Worgl Germany, astronaut (STS 22) |
1940-12-13 |
Edith Clever, Wuppertal Germany, actress (Parsifal, L'Adolescente) |
1941-03-14 |
Wolfgang Petersen, Emden Germany, actor (Shattered, Enemy Mine) |
1941-04-06 |
Hans W Geissendorfer, Augsburg Germany, director (Sternsteinhof) |
1941-07-09 |
Karin von Aroldingen, Germany, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Co) |
1942-02-21 |
Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director (Marianne) |
1942-07-24 |
Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados) |
1943-02-22 |
Horst Köhler, President of Germany |
1943-02-27 |
Klaus Köste, Frankfurt, Germany, gymnast (Olympic Gold 1972- vault), (d. 2012) |
1943-05-29 |
Maximiliane Mainka, Germany in Autumn |
1943-07-29 |
Ingrid Kramer, Dresden Germany, diver (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1943-09-28 |
Nick St Nicholas, Hamburg Germany, rock bassist (Steppenwolf) |
1943-12-24 |
Christiane Schmidtmer, Heidelberg Germany, actress (Ship of Fools) |
1944-04-07 |
Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany |
1944-04-23 |
Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold) |
1944-10-14 |
Udo Kier, Germany, actress (Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein) |
1945-05-21 |
Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22) |
1945-07-16 |
Kellie Everts, Kalv Germany, Miss nude Universe (1968) |
1945-07-19 |
George Dzunda, Rosenheim Germany, actor (Deer Hunter, Law & Order) |
1946-06-20 |
Andre Watts, Nuremberg Germany, concert pianist (Oberon) |
1947-10-31 |
Frank Shorter, Munich Germany, US marathoner (Oly-gold/silver-72, 76) |
1948-03-28 |
John Evan, Jethro Tull: Jack in the Green - Live in Germany 1970-93 |
1948-04-12 |
Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister of Germany |
1948-09-07 |
Susan Blakely, Frankfurt Germany, actress (Rich Man Poor Man) |
1948-10-09 |
Jackson Browne, US Base in Germany, rock voclaist (Lawyers in Love) |
1948-11-22 |
Radomir Antic, Group D: Germany vs Serbia |
1948-12-06 |
Marius Mueller-Westernhagen, Duesseldorf Germany, rocker (Stinker) |
1949-01-11 |
Tom Netherton, Munich Germany, singer (Lawrence Welk Show) |
1949-04-13 |
Jean-Jacques Favier, Kehl Germany, astronaut (STS 78) |
1950-02-02 |
Barbara Sukowa, Germany, actress (Zentropia, Sicilian, Voyager, Lola) |
1950-05-18 |
Thomas Gottschalk, Bamberg Germany, (Telespiele) |
1950-06-04 |
Dagmar Krause, West Germany, singer (Henry Cow, Art Bears) |
1950-08-02 |
Mathieu Carriere, Hanover West Germany, actor (Bay Boy, Woman in Flames) |
1951-10-12 |
Bernie Ruoff, West Germany, CFL kicker (Winnipeg, Hamilton) |
1951-10-24 |
Todd Crespi, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Magician) |
1952-10-19 |
Alexander Leibkind, Germany, judo (Oly-76)/WLAF GM (Rhein Fire) |
1952-10-21 |
Brent Mydland, Munich Germany, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots) |
1953-05-25 |
Gaetano Scirea, Final: Italy vs West Germany |
1953-09-02 |
Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz Germany, astronaut |
1953-11-25 |
Monique St Pierre, Weisbaden Germany, playmate of year (Nov, 1978) |
1954-05-21 |
Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975) |
1954-07-17 |
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany |
1954-12-14 |
Eva Mattes, Tegernsee Germany, actress (Celeste, Man Like Eva) |
1954-12-14 |
Hans William Schlegel, Oberlingen Germany, Astronaut (STS 55) |
1955-10-11 |
Hans-Peter Briegel, Final: Italy vs West Germany |
1955-11-28 |
Alessandro Altobelli, Final: Italy vs West Germany |
1956-01-28 |
Peter Schilling, Stuttgart Germany, rocker |
1956-05-03 |
Bernd Förster, Final: Italy vs West Germany |
1956-05-04 |
Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt West Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1956-12-04 |
Herbert Groenemeyer, Germany, rocker (OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge) |
1956-12-18 |
Reinhold Ewald, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-25) |
1957-02-16 |
LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation) |
1957-11-13 |
Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author (Project Mankind) |
1957-12-15 |
Tim Reynolds, Wiesbaden, Germany, guitarist (Dave Matthews Band) |
1958-01-24 |
Frank Ullrich, East Germany, world biathlon champion |
1958-02-14 |
Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Loving, All My Children) |
1958-03-08 |
Andreas Maurer, West Germany, tennis star |
1958-05-21 |
Sabine Bischoff, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, fencer (Oly Gld 1984), (d. 2013) |
1958-05-23 |
Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22) |
1958-12-23 |
Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate (March, 1979) |
1959-01-14 |
Paul Terry, cricketer (in Germany Two Tests England v WI 1984) |
1959-02-16 |
John McEnroe, Wiesbaden, Germany, American tennis great (US Open 1979-81, 84 Wimb 1981, 83, 84) |
1959-05-19 |
Nicole Brown Simpson, Frankford Germany, Mrs OJ Simpson (murdered) |
1959-11-30 |
Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player (Avon-1982) |
1960-04-12 |
Ron MacLean, Zweibrücken Germany, Canadian sportscaster (Hockey Night in Canada) |
1960-07-27 |
Christina Singer, Geoppingen Germany, tennis star |
1961-01-02 |
Jose Cuciuffo, Final: Argentina vs West Germany |
1961-01-24 |
Nastassja Kinski, Berlin Germany, actress (Tess, Cat People) |
1961-02-10 |
Eva Pfaff, West Germany, tennis star |
1961-05-07 |
Linda Somers, Bitburg Germany, US marathoner (Olympics-31st-96) |
1961-12-26 |
Jörg Schüttauf, Berlin Is in Germany |
1962-04-29 |
Dieter Hegen, Kaufbeuren GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1962-11-03 |
Kimberly Evenson, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (September, 1984) |
1963-01-21 |
Detlef Schrempf, Germany, NBA forward (Mavericks, Pacers, Supersonics) |
1963-04-23 |
Benoit Doucet, Montreal Quebec, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1963-05-29 |
Tracey E Bregman, Munich Germany, actress (Lauren-Bold & Beautiful, Days of Our Life) |
1963-06-13 |
Josef Heiss, Garmisch GER, hockey goaltender (Team Germany 1998) |
1963-06-29 |
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Rheinfeldin Germany, violinist (Berlin Phil) |
1963-08-01 |
Mark Wright, That Game: England v Germany 1990 |
1963-09-18 |
Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, US slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96) |
1963-11-04 |
Michael Heidt, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) |
1963-11-07 |
Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman (Team Germany) |
1963-11-13 |
Thilo Timothy Newman, Hamburg Germany, writer (Freejack, Alien) |
1963-11-17 |
Marco T Dawson, Freising Germany, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milw-2nd) |
1964-03-24 |
Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star |
1964-04-04 |
Paul Parker, That Game: England v Germany 1990 |
1964-05-28 |
Mark MacKay, Brandon GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1964-06-17 |
Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984) |
1964-11-12 |
Thomas Berthold, That Game: England v Germany 1990 |
1964-9-21 |
André Mantz, A Love in Germany |
1965-01-09 |
Georg Franz, Straubing GER, hockey forward (Team Germany, Landshut) |
1965-02-21 |
Jayson Meyer, Regina Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman (Team Germany) |
1965-03-11 |
Eric Jelen, West Germany, tennis star |
1965-04-07 |
Alexander Mronz, Cologne Germany, tennis star |
1965-04-24 |
Mike Blowers, Wurlzburg Germany, infielder (NY Yankees, LA Dodgers) |
1965-06-24 |
Uwe Krupp, Cologne, Germany, NHL defenceman (Colo Avalanche, Germany 98) |
1965-10-29 |
Andy Beal, Germany, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 West of England Pro) |
1965-12-07 |
Peter Draisaitl, Karvina CZE, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1966-02-11 |
Patrick Kuhnen, West Germany, tennis star |
1966-03-16 |
Brad Bergen, PA Sask, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) |
1966-04-04 |
Myriam Schropp, West Germany, tennis star |
1966-07-22 |
Daniel Nowak, Schwennigen GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) |
1966-07-25 |
Elke Jeinsen, Hanover Germany, playmate (May, 1993) |
1966-09-01 |
Katja Bienert, Berlin Germany, actress (Praxis Bulowbogen) |
1967-04-26 |
Klaus Merk, Augsburg GER, hockey goaltender (Team Germany 1998) |
1967-07-21 |
Tore Meinecke, West Germany, tennis star |
1967-08-15 |
Ercan Karacayli, Almanya: Welcome to Germany |
1967-08-18 |
Julie Kristen Smith, Nuhremburg Germany, choreographer (Showgirls) |
1967-11-11 |
Berivan Kaya, Almanya: Welcome to Germany |
1967-11-22 |
Boris Becker, Leimen Germany, tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89) |
1968-02-07 |
Martin Sinner, Koblenz Germany, tennis star (1990 Pretoria) |
1968-02-07 |
Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star |
1968-03-20 |
Jurgen Rumrich, Miesbach GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1968-04-03 |
Bernd Karbacher, Germany, tennis star |
1968-07-13 |
Silke Meier, Wiesbaden Germany, tennis star (1994 Futures-Bad Gogging) |
1968-07-27 |
Christina Singer, Goeppingen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures GBR) |
1968-08-05 |
Andreas Lupzig, Straubing GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1968-10-18 |
Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star |
1968-11-11 |
Jo Kittsee, Germany, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue) |
1968-12-03 |
Isabel Cueto, West Germany, tennis star |
1969-01-01 |
Reemt Pyka, Bremerhaven GER, hockey forward (Team Germany) |
1969-01-03 |
Michael Schumacher, Hurth, Germany, Formula One racing driver (seven time world champion) |
1969-01-11 |
Reemt Pyka, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1969-02-09 |
Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1969-05-29 |
Wiltrud Probst, Nuermberg Germany, tennis star (1992 Belgian Open) |
1969-06-14 |
Steffi Graf, Mannheim West Germany, tennis player (22 Grand Slam singles titles) |
1969-07-12 |
Sabine Hack, Ulm Germany, tennis star (1995 Jakarta) |
1969-07-31 |
Rudolf Martin, Germany, actor (Anton-All My Children) |
1969-08-19 |
Scott Ford, Norbrooke Germany, golfer (1994 Trafalgar CPGA-2nd) |
1969-11-04 |
Katrin Borchert, Germany, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96) |
1969-12-07 |
Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star |
1970-02-20 |
Leo Stefan, Chelyabinsk Russia, hockey forward (Team Germany) |
1970-02-22 |
Leo Stefan, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1970-04-09 |
Olaf Kolzig, Johannesburg SAF, NHL goalie (Team Germany, Washington) |
1970-04-18 |
Heike Friedrich, East Germany swimmer (world record 200m) |
1970-08-25 |
Claudia Schiffer, Rheinbach Germany, super model (Elle, Rolling Stone) |
1970-09-29 |
Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer (European Amat champ 1994) |
1971-02-23 |
Torsten Kienass, Berlin GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany) |
1971-05-18 |
Daniel Gowing, Germany, NZ judoka (Olympics-96) |
1971-07-17 |
Daniel Kunce, Sumperk GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) |
1972-02-20 |
Corinna Harney, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (Aug, 1991) |
1972-04-28 |
Jan Benda, Reet Belgium, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1972-06-19 |
Brian McBride, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1972-12-31 |
Gregory Coupet, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1973-03-15 |
Franca Fehlauer, Hamburg Germany, golfer (Belgian Intl Jr champ 1991) |
1973-03-30 |
Jan Koller, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1973-07-04 |
Nick Brinkmann, Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation |
1973-07-15 |
Yasemin Samdereli, Almanya: Welcome to Germany |
1973-07-20 |
Claudio Reyna, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1973-08-09 |
Jochen Molling, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) |
1973-12-15 |
Mirko Ludemann, Weiwasser GER, NHL defenseman (Team Germany, Colorado) |
1973-12-24 |
Eddie Pope, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1974-03-20 |
Carsten Ramelow, Final: Germany vs. Brazil |
1974-08-28 |
Carsten Jancker, Final: Germany vs. Brazil |
1974-10-10 |
Naike Rivelli, Germany, model/daughter of Ornella Muti |
1974-11-22 |
Meike Babel, Langen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures-Paderborn-GER) |
1974-12-01 |
Costinha, Third Place: Germany vs Portugal |
1974-12-04 |
Anke Huber, Ludwigshafen Germany, tennis star (1996 finalist Australian) |
1975-01-29 |
Hendrik Dreekmann, Germany, tennis star |
1975-02-04 |
Miriam Ruppert, Miss Universe-Germany (1996) |
1975-04-14 |
Petra Begerow, Germany, tennis star (1996 quarter Hilton Head) |
1975-06-15 |
Agathe Neuner, Miss Germany Universe (1997) |
1975-06-23 |
Alexander Serikow, Landshut GER, hockey forward (Team Germany) |
1975-06-30 |
Rami Shaaban, Round of 16: Germany vs Sweden |
1976-01-08 |
Alexandre Pires, Final: Germany vs. Argentina |
1976-01-30 |
Florian Keller, Munchen GER, hockey player (Team Germany, Rosenheim) |
1976-03-02 |
Lars Bruggemann, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) |
1976-04-07 |
Erich Goldmann, Dingolfing GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) |
1976-05-05 |
Juan Pablo Sorin, Quarter-Finals: Germany vs Argentina |
1976-05-26 |
Markus Wieland, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) |
1976-08-29 |
Pablo Mastroeni, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1976-09-20 |
Markus Wieland, Tegernsee GER, hockey player (Team Germany 1998) |
1976-12-14 |
Petter Hansson, Round of 16: Germany vs Sweden |
1976-9-29 |
Andriy Shevchenko, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1977-01-19 |
Anne Miller, Midland Mich, tennis star (1995 Darmstadt Germany) |
1977-02-02 |
Jessica Wahls, Popstars: Germany |
1977-06-21 |
Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) |
1978-01-11 |
Emile Heskey, Round of 16: Germany vs England |
1978-06-24 |
Juan Román Riquelme, Quarter-Finals: Germany vs Argentina |
1978-06-24 |
Mikael Nilsson, Round of 16: Germany vs Sweden |
1978-09-08 |
Marco Sturm, Dingolfing GER, NHL forward (Sharks, Team Germany 1998) |
1978-09-20 |
Sophie Simard, Lars Germany, swimmer (Olympics-96) |
1978-11-18 |
Shaham Joyce, Popstars: Germany |
1979-01-18 |
Paulo Ferreira, Third Place: Germany vs Portugal |
1979-02-21 |
Pascal Chimbonda, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1979-04-18 |
Matthew Upson, Round of 16: Germany vs England |
1979-05-14 |
Mickael Landreau, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1979-06-08 |
Tertia Botha, Popstars: Germany |
1979-10-23 |
Vanessa Petruo, Popstars: Germany |
1979-12-03 |
Tristan Seith, Almanya: Welcome to Germany |
1979-12-08 |
Christian Wilhelmsson, Round of 16: Germany vs Sweden |
1979-12-14 |
Jean-Alain Boumsong, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1980-10-24 |
Matthew Amoah, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1980-12-07 |
Clemens Fritz, Group B: Austria vs. Germany |
1981-01-26 |
Jesús Corona, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1981-05-16 |
Ricardo Costa, Group F: Germany vs. Portugal |
1981-10-03 |
Andreas Isaksson, Round of 16: Germany vs Sweden |
1981-10-09 |
Gael Givet, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1981-10-21 |
Nemanja Vidic, Group D: Germany vs Serbia |
1981-12-03 |
David Villa, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1981-12-11 |
Javier Saviola, Quarter-Finals: Germany vs Argentina |
1982-02-05 |
Rodrigo Palacio, Final: Germany vs. Argentina |
1982-04-26 |
Nadja Benaissa, Popstars: Germany |
1982-08-10 |
John Alvbåge, Round of 16: Germany vs Sweden |
1983-06-02 |
Fredrik Stenman, Round of 16: Germany vs Sweden |
1983-07-26 |
Hila Bronstein, Popstars: Germany |
1983-07-27 |
Rebecca Miro, Popstars: Germany |
1983-08-12 |
Klaas Jan Huntelaar, Fifa World Cup: Germany 2006 |
1984-03-21 |
Karl Svensson, Round of 16: Germany vs Sweden |
1985-03-17 |
Anne Ross, Popstars: Germany |
1985-05-30 |
Miriam Cani, Popstars: Germany |
1986-05-13 |
Giuliana Marino, Playboy Playmate of the Year, Germany 2005 |
1986-07-12 |
Simone Laudehr, Germany vs. France |
1986-12-19 |
Anh-Thu Doan, Popstars: Germany |
1987-01-29 |
Marq, Popstars: Germany |
1987-12-10 |
Gonzalo Higuaín, Final: Germany vs. Argentina |
1988-03-11 |
Fábio Coentrão, Group F: Germany vs. Portugal |
1990-06-01 |
Robin Becker, Berlin Is in Germany |
1991-03-21 |
Antoine Griezmann, Quarter-Finals: France vs. Germany |
1992-04-18 |
Dzsenifer Marozsán, Germany vs. Norway |
1999-05-14 |
Kaan Aydogdu, Almanya: Welcome to Germany |
Germany - Notable Weddings
Germany - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1733-06-12 |
King of Prussia Frederick the Great (21) weds duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (18) at Schloss Salzdahlum in Wolfenbüttel, Germany |
1843-06-19 |
Philosopher Karl Marx (25) weds Jenny von Westphalen in Germany |
1886-09-14 |
Neurologist Sigmund Freud (30) weds Martha Bernays (25) in Hamburg, Germany |
1904-01-28 |
German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (28) weds Emma Weyer at St. Stephan Catholic Church in Lindenthal, Germany |
1905-02-11 |
Novelist Thomas Mann (29) weds Katia Pringsheim (21) in Munich, Germany |
1919-09-26 |
German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (43) weds Auguste Zinsser in Cologne, Germany |
1923-05-17 |
Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (21) weds assistant director Rudolf Sieber (26) in Berlin, Germany |
1931-12-19 |
Propagandist Joseph Goebbels (34) weds Magda Ritschel (30) at Günther Quandt's farm in Mecklenburg, Germany |
1947-03-01 |
Rocket engineer Werner von Braun (34) weds Maria Luise von Quistorp in Landshut, Germany |
1995-08-01 |
F1 driver Michael Schumacher (26) weds Corinna Betsch in Kerpen, Germany |
2005-05-18 |
Television presenter and former Miss Germany Verona Feldbusch (37) weds German entrepreneur Franjo Pooth at the San Diego Court House in San Diego, California |
2005-05-21 |
"Second Time Around" actor Boris Kodjoe (32) weds "Soul Food" actress Nicole Ari Parker (34) in Gundelfingen, Germany |
2009-07-11 |
Actor and film director Robert Redford (71) weds artist Sibylle Szaggars (51) at the luxurious Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany |
Germany - Notable Deaths
Germany - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
928-09-15 |
Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48 |
1039-06-04 |
Conrad II the Salian, King/Emperor of Germany (1024/27-39), dies at 49 |
1101-07-27 |
Conrad II, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074) |
1143-09-24 |
Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072) |
1208-06-21 |
Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and duke of Swabia (b. 1177) |
1254-05-21 |
Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228) |
1273-10-09 |
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany |
1291-07-15 |
Rudolf I, King of Germany & Holy Roman Empire, dies |
1347-10-11 |
Louis IV, Duke of Bayern/Romania-Germany King/emperor, dies |
1356-01-23 |
Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies |
1415-07-06 |
Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369), burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany |
1439-10-27 |
Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397) |
1528-04-06 |
Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56 |
1539-05-01 |
Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503) |
1554-03-03 |
Johann Friedrich, the Generous, Elector of Saxony (1532-47) and Head of the Protestant Confederation of Germany (the Schmalkaldic League), dies at 50 |
1612-01-20 |
Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59 |
1843-01-09 |
Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany |
1888-06-15 |
Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831) |
1901-07-06 |
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819) |
1901-08-05 |
Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60 |
1901-08-15 |
Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77 |
1912-11-28 |
Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies |
1914-07-02 |
Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78 |
1918-08-10 |
Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897) |
1919-01-04 |
Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843) |
1925-02-28 |
Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies |
1929-10-28 |
Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849) |
1931-03-20 |
Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876) |
1933-11-23 |
Mark M. Dintenfass, My Four Years in Germany |
1941-06-04 |
Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies |
1942-10-24 |
Halbert Brown, My Four Years in Germany |
1944-07-20 |
Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion |
1944-07-20 |
Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies |
1944-09-16 |
Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870) |
1945-03-31 |
Maurice Rose, 1st US general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45 |
1945-04-09 |
Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged |
1946-08-05 |
Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863) |
1951-06-02 |
Ernst Pittschau, Germany Year Zero |
1951-07-20 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882) |
1955-04-18 |
Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70 |
1956-01-03 |
Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876) |
1959-12-28 |
Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889) |
1967-04-19 |
Konrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 |
1968-04-07 |
Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany at 32 |
1970-03-30 |
Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885) |
1970-06-03 |
H G Hjalmar Schacht, pres Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies |
1975-08-17 |
Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80 |
1976-05-08 |
Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies |
1977-03-04 |
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887) |
1978-04-16 |
Lucius D Clay, gen/gov US zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80 |
1980-12-24 |
Karl Dönitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (b. 1891) |
1981-02-12 |
Jack Glenn, Inside Nazi Germany |
1981-11-11 |
Alf Brustellin, Germany in Autumn |
1984-04-30 |
Arthur T "Bomber" Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies |
1985-10-29 |
Charles Douglas Home, Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944 |
1988-03-17 |
Franz-Otto Krüger, Germany Year Zero |
1989-09-03 |
Gaetano Scirea, Final: Italy vs West Germany |
1990-12-14 |
Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64 |
1991-03-12 |
Emmi Bonhoeffer, A New Germany: 1933-1939 |
1991-05-01 |
Rainer von Artenfels, Hitler: A Film from Germany |
1992-07-19 |
Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79 |
1992-10-08 |
Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78 |
1993-01-26 |
Axel von dem Bussche, The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 |
1997-03-26 |
Otto John, Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944 |
1997-09-05 |
Johanna Karl-Lory, Germany Pale Mother |
1997-11-10 |
Leon Johnson, Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944 |
1998-01-02 |
Max Kolpé, Germany Year Zero |
1998-11-14 |
Isobel Lillian Steele, I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany |
2001-11-12 |
Heinz Petruo, Germany Pale Mother |
2001-11-28 |
William Reid, Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944 |
2003-05-20 |
Walter Höllerer, Germany Pale Mother |
2004-12-11 |
Jose Cuciuffo, Final: Argentina vs West Germany |
2005-03-15 |
Hans Kwiet, Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany |
2006-01-27 |
Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931) |
2007-05-24 |
Wolfgang Bächler, Germany in Autumn |
2009-05-04 |
Gisela Stein, Germany Pale Mother |
2009-10-04 |
Guenther Rall, Germany's Last Ace - Part 1 |
2011-01-13 |
Hellmut Lange, Hitler: A Film from Germany |
2011-01-31 |
Stuart Hood, Nemesis: Germany - February-May 1945 |
2014-05-27 |
Helma Sanders-Brahms, Germany Pale Mother |
2016-05-08 |
Margot Honecker, the 'Purple Witch' of East Germany, dies aged 89 |
2016-07-09 |
Germany's culinary conscience, Wolfram Siebeck, dies aged 87 |
2016-09-25 |
Holocaust survivor Max Mannheimer dies in Germany, aged 96 |
2016-10-21 |
Germany physio Katzenmeier dies aged 81 |
2016-10-29 |
Actor Manfred Krug, a star in East and West Germany, dies aged 79 |
