Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/February

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February 1

• 1411 – The Peace of Thorn ends the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
• 1733 – Death of Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony
• 1957 – First run of the prototype of the Wankel engine

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February 2

• 1700 – Birth of author and critic Johann Christoph Gottsched
• 1943 – The Battle of Stalingrad ends with German surrender
• 1945 – Execution of politician Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

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February 3

• 1468 – Death of printer Johannes Gutenberg
• 1809 – Birth of composer Felix Mendelssohn
• 1926 – Birth of politician Hans-Jochen Vogel

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February 4

Friedrich Ebert

• 0856 – Death of Rabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz
• 1708 – Bach's cantata Gott ist mein König is performed for the first time
• 1871 – Birth of Friedrich Ebert, first president of the Weimar Republic

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February 5

• 1705 – Death of theologian Philipp Jakob Spener, known as the "Father of Pietism"
• 1808 – Birth of painter Carl Spitzweg

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February 6

Leo von Caprivi

• 1887 – Birth of Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne
• 1899 – Death of Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany 1890-1894
• 1912 – Birth of Eva Braun, mistress of Adolf Hitler
• 1936 – The 1936 Winter Olympics open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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February 7

William V

• 1626 – Death of William V, Duke of Bavaria

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February 8

Franz Marc, painted by August Macke

• 1880 – Birth of expressionist painter Franz Marc
• 1950 – The Stasi is founded as secret police of East Germany

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February 9

Johann Baptist von Spix

• 1781 – Birth of naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix
• 1834 – Birth of author Felix Dahn
• 1905 – Death of artist Adolph Menzel

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February 10

• 1898 – Birth of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht
• 1923 – Death of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Physics

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February 11

Hugh of St Victor

• 1141 – Death of mystic Hugh of St Victor
• 1816 – Birth of printer and publisher Ernst Litfaß
• 1919 – Friedrich Ebert becomes Reichspräsident
• 1973 – Death of J. Hans D. Jensen, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics

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February 12

• 1804 – Death of philosopher Immanuel Kant
• 1916 – Death of mathematician Richard Dedekind

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February 13

• 1805 – Birth of mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
• 1883 – Death of composer Richard Wagner
• 1945 – The bombing of Dresden starts

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February 14

• 1780 – Birth of scientist Johann Friedrich Naumann, considered the founder of ornithology
• 1895 – Birth of philosopher and sociologist Max Horkheimer
• 1943 – Death of mathematician David Hilbert
• 1981 – The first episode of Wetten, dass..? is broadcast

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February 15

• 1637 – Death of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1781 – Death of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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February 16

• 1497 – Birth of theologian Philipp Melanchthon, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation
• 1821 – Birth of explorer Heinrich Barth
• 1826 – Birth of poet Joseph Viktor von Scheffel

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February 17

Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff

• 1699 – Birth of painter and architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff
• 1752 – Birth of author Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
• 1888 – Birth of physicist Otto Stern, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics

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February 18

• 1546 – Death of reformer Martin Luther
• 1943 – Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech

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February 19

• 1660 – Birth of physician Friedrich Hoffmann
• 1837 – Birth of dramatist and revolutionary Georg Büchner
• 1877 – Birth of expressionist painter Gabriele Münter

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February 20

Johann Heinrich Voß

• 1751 – Birth of poet and translator Johann Heinrich Voß, best known for his translation of Homer's Odyssey
• 1762 – Death of astronomer Tobias Mayer, famous for his studies of the Moon
• 1909 – Birth of actor and comedian Heinz Erhardt
• 1937 – Birth of biochemist Robert Huber, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1972 – Death of physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics

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February 21

• 1484 - Birth of elector Joachim I of Brandenburg
• 1848 - Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto
• 1880 - Birth of Waldemar Bonsels, author of Maya the Bee
• 1916 - The Battle of Verdun begins
• 1919 - Assassination of politician Kurt Eisner, the first minister-president of Bavaria

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February 22

• 1840 - Birth of Social democratic politician August Bebel
• 1857 - Birth of physicist Heinrich Hertz, discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
• 1902 - Birth of physicist Fritz Strassmann, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
• 1943 - White Rose resistance fighters Christoph Probst and Hans and Sophie Scholl are tried and executed
• 1972 - Birth of speed skater Claudia Pechstein, winner of five olympic gold medals

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February 23

• 1455 - Traditional publication date of the Gutenberg Bible
• 1855 - Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
• 1893 - Rudolf Diesel is granted a patent for the Diesel engine
• 1899 - Birth of author Erich Kästner, known for his children's books such as Lottie and Lisa
• 1945 - Birth of Georg Milbradt, minister-president of Saxony

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February 24

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

• 1622 - Birth of theologian and philosopher Johannes Clauberg
• 1786 - Birth of philologist Wilhelm Grimm, known for Deutsches Wörterbuch and Grimm's Fairy Tales
• 1799 - Death of scientist and aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• 1920 - The NSDAP is created by the renaming of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
• 2005 - Death of former minister of state Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski

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February 25

Karl May

• 1591 - Birth of Friedrich von Spee, Jesuit writer who opposed the witch trials
• 1803 - The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss is passed by the Perpetual Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1842 - Birth of Karl May, best-selling German author of Winnetou
• 1913 - Birth of Gert Fröbe, the actor who played Goldfinger

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February 26

J. H. W. Tischbein

• 1829 - Death of painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, known for his portrait of Goethe
• 1931 - Death of Otto Wallach, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1924 - The trial against Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff for the Beer Hall putsch begins
• 1935 - The Luftwaffe is re-founded in a violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1948 - Foundation of the Max Planck Society

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February 27

Berlin Cathedral

• 1531 - Establishment of the Schmalkaldic League, a defensive league of protestant princes
• 1900 - Foundation of FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club
• 1905 - Inauguration of Berlin Cathedral
• 1933 - The Reichstag burns down in the Reichstag fire
• 1957 - Death of Otto Nuschke, deputy chairman of the Ministerrat of the German Democratic Republic

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February 28

• 1746 - Death of historian Hermann von der Hardt
• 1833 - Birth of field marshal Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, strategist of the Schlieffen Plan
• 1900 - Birth of sailplane designer Wolf Hirth
• 1944 - Birth of Sepp Maier, goalkeeper of the German national football team in the Football World Cup 1974
• 2002 - Last day on which the German Mark is accepted as a form of payment

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February 29

Lange Anna in Heligoland

• 1528 - Birth of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, a leader of the German counter reformation
• 1820 - Death of literary critic and historian Johann Joachim Eschenburg
• 1868 - Death of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, whose 1810 wedding was the occasion of the first Oktoberfest
• 1952 - The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.

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