Today in Germany History (Part 9)
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Historical Events
Results 801 - 900 of 1,716
1939-08-22 - Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
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
1939-08-27 - Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1939-09-01 - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1939-09-03 - German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939-09-03 - Great Britain & France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland
1939-09-03 - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada
1939-09-04 - German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939-09-04 - German troops move into Danzig
1939-09-06 - 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1939-09-06 - South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
1939-09-10 - Canada declares war on Germany
1939-09-10 - In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany
1939-09-11 - Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
1939-09-11 - Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany
1939-09-14 - British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1939-09-17 - German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die
1939-09-19 - Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
1939-09-20 - British fleet takes German U-27 boat
1939-09-25 - German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1939-09-25 - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1939-09-26 - German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
1939-09-27 - Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1939-09-28 - Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender
1939-09-30 - Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland
1939-10-07 - HALL airship Binnendijk runs up German my
1939-10-08 - Germany annexes Western Poland
1939-10-14 - German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed
1939-10-28 - Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939-10-28 - Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
1939-10-30 - USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
1939-10-30 - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard
1939-11-01 - 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1939-11-09 - Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1939-11-15 - Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1939-11-16 - German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
1939-11-17 - German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
1939-11-18 - Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1939-12-13 - Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
1939-12-17 - German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
1939-12-22 - 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
1939-12-22 - 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1940-01-06 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
1940-01-09 - 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
1940-01-15 - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1940-02-16 - British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
1940-02-17 - British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
1940-02-22 - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
1940-03-15 - Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1940-03-16 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1940-03-18 - Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
1940-03-19 - Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
1940-04-08 - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1940-04-09 - German cruiser Blucher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
1940-04-09 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders)
1940-04-13 - 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed
1940-05-01 - 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1940-05-10 - World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1940-05-12 - German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
1940-05-13 - German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
1940-05-14 - German breakthrough at Sedan
1940-05-14 - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
1940-05-14 - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1940-05-15 - German armour division moves into Northern France
1940-05-15 - German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders
1940-05-17 - Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
1940-05-18 - German troops conquer Brussels
1940-05-24 - German tanks reach Atrecht France
1940-05-25 - German troops conquer Boulogne
1940-05-27 - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.
1940-05-28 - Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
1940-05-29 - In WW II, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France
1940-06-02 - Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
1940-06-04 - German forces enter Paris
1940-06-05 - Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
1940-06-09 - Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
1940-06-10 - German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
1940-06-10 - German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
1940-06-13 - Paris evacuates before German advance
1940-06-14 - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940-06-14 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1940-06-15 - France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris
1940-06-17 - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1940-06-17 - Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
1940-06-18 - German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
1940-06-19 - German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Rommel occupies Cherbourg
1940-06-21 - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
1940-06-22 - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1940-06-22 - SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth
1940-07-02 - Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
1940-07-03 - ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
1940-07-03 - German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
1940-07-04 - German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
1940-07-09 - German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
1940-07-09 - RAF bombs Germany
1940-07-10 - German planes attack British ships in the Canal
1940-07-11 - British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1940-07-20 - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
Famous Birthdays
Results 801 - 900 of 2,503
1854-11-28 - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist
1855-02-17 - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)
1855-05-15 - Eduard earl of Keyserling, German writer (Dritte Stiege)
1855-07-07 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1855-07-09 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer
1855-07-26 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
1855-09-09 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist
1855-10-08 - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist
1855-12-27 - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist
1855-12-30 - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity)
1856-02-05 - Otto Brahm, German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau)
1856-02-15 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)
1856-02-16 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (d. 1944)
1856-08-30 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1856-11-29 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia
1856-12-25 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)
1857-01-18 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
1857-02-18 - Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor
1857-07-05 - Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist
1857-08-14 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
1857-08-15 - Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
1857-09-08 - Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
1857-09-30 - Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge)
1857-10-29 - Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal)
1857-11-29 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911)
1858-01-10 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
1858-03-01 - Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
1858-03-18 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)
1858-03-23 - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927)
1858-04-23 - Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1858-05-30 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1858-07-21 - Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
1858-07-24 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
1858-08-01 - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist
1858-08-16 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927)
1858-10-05 - Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria
1859-01-13 - Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature)
1859-01-27 - Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
1859-02-03 - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
1859-03-26 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
1859-04-08 - Edmund Husserl, Germany, philosopher (founded Phenomenology)
1859-07-14 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1859-10-19 - Georg Knorr, German engineer (brake system trains)
1860-02-14 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954)
1860-03-22 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
1860-05-20 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1860-07-20 - Johannes Walter, German geologist (Denudation of the Wilderness)
1860-08-22 - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award)
1860-08-28 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [OS]
1860-09-11 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [NS]
1861-01-13 - Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
1861-01-14 - Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf)
1861-01-18 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
1861-02-12 - Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott)
1861-06-22 - Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
1861-09-23 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1861-12-17 - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer
1861-12-22 - Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology)
1861-12-26 - Friedrich Engel, German mathematician (group theory)
1862-02-17 - Edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer
1862-03-05 - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
1862-05-18 - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist
1862-11-15 - Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
1862-11-15 - Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912)
1863-01-15 - Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian
1863-01-19 - Werner Sombart, German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben)
1863-02-23 - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
1863-05-28 - Georg Adler, German state economist
1863-06-02 - Paul Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia)
1863-06-11 - Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar)
1863-06-21 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
1863-07-12 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
1863-09-06 - Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento)
1863-09-29 - Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer
1863-09-29 - Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary
1863-09-30 - Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I)
1863-10-05 - Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist
1863-12-13 - Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar
1864-01-13 - Wilhelm K W Wien, German phyicist (Nobel 1911)
1864-02-06 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists)
1864-03-30 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician
1864-04-10 - Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist/composer (Golem)
1864-04-21 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)
1864-06-11 - Richard Georg Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Don Quixote)
1864-06-14 - Alois Alzheimer, Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease)
1864-06-22 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician
1864-07-24 - B[enjamin] Frank[lin] Wedekind, German writer (Lulu)
1864-11-11 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911)
1865-01-22 - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist
1865-02-09 - Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl
1865-02-22 - Otto Modersohn, German painter
1865-03-30 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
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)
1865-04-30 - Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944)
1865-06-19 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate
1865-06-28 - Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories)
1865-07-26 - Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament (SPD)/mayor of Kassel
1865-09-03 - Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian
Famous Deaths
Results 801 - 900 of 1,653
1916-06-18 - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67
1916-06-18 - Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed
1916-07-16 - Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1916-07-27 - Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
1916-10-28 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917-06-27 - Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79
1917-08-20 - JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
1917-09-23 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
1917-10-15 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris
1917-11-22 - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1918-01-06 - Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72
1918-03-09 - [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53
1918-04-21 - Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892)
1918-07-06 - Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies
1918-08-10 - Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
1918-08-22 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1918-09-04 - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51)
1918-09-28 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
1918-10-13 - Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies
1919-01-04 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
1919-01-31 - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
1919-02-06 - Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81
1919-05-02 - Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
1919-05-17 - Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848)
1919-07-07 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1919-07-15 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1919-08-09 - Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85
1919-10-14 - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies
1919-11-07 - Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56
1919-12-13 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
1920-01-26 - Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
1920-04-07 - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
1920-04-10 - Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90
1920-06-14 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
1920-07-05 - Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63
1920-07-23 - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1920-08-31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher, dies
1920-10-20 - Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82
1921-01-07 - Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
1921-01-18 - Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73
1921-04-08 - Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies
1921-05-05 - Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
1921-06-04 - Heinrich E Albers-Schoenberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56
1921-06-29 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1921-08-26 - Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered at 45
1921-12-20 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
1922-01-06 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
1922-02-15 - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36
1922-05-07 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
1922-05-19 - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79
1922-06-12 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
1922-06-24 - Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54
1922-07-04 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
1922-07-17 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
1922-09-30 - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 64
1922-11-16 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
1923-02-11 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847)
1923-05-20 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
1923-06-29 - Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73
1923-07-13 - Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], German(?) composer, dies at 80
1923-11-25 - Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Moon Atlas), dies at 83
1923-12-26 - Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (b. 1868)
1924-01-13 - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89
1924-10-07 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
1924-12-08 - Franz X Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74
1925-01-12 - Oskar Brefeld, German botanist, dies at 85
1925-02-28 - Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies
1925-03-04 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies at 70
1925-03-27 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
1925-05-30 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1925-06-22 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1925-12-25 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
1926-03-26 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74
1926-09-05 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1926-09-16 - Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
1926-10-07 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
1927-01-03 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
1927-01-09 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71
1927-03-05 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
1927-07-05 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
1927-09-12 - Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61
1927-09-29 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
1927-10-10 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1927-11-28 - Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies
1928-05-19 - Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53
1928-05-31 - Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85
1928-08-14 - Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37
1928-11-13 - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist, dies at 60
1928-11-21 - Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies
1928-11-26 - Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I), dies at 65
1929-08-03 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1929-08-09 - Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
1929-08-22 - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74
1929-10-03 - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
1929-10-12 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
1929-10-20 - Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76
1929-10-28 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1929-11-06 - Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
1929-11-17 - Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
1929-12-29 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
