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 (pictured)
1957 – First run of the prototype of the Wankel engine

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February 2

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

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February 3

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

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February 4

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 (pictured), first president of the Weimar Republic

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February 5

1705 – Death of theologian Philipp Jakob Spener (pictured), known as the "Father of Pietism"
1808 – Birth of painter Carl Spitzweg
1949 – Birth of politician Kurt Beck

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February 6

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

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February 7

1626 – Death of William V, Duke of Bavaria
1825 – Birth of zoologist Karl Möbius (pictured)
1882 – Berlin Stadtbahn opens for regional traffic

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February 8

1876 – Birth of expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (pictured)
1880 – Birth of expressionist painter Franz Marc
1950 – The Stasi is founded as secret police of East Germany

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February 9

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

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February 10

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

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February 11

1141 – Death of mystic Hugh of St Victor
1816 – Birth of printer and publisher Ernst Litfaß
1869 – Birth of poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler (pictured)
1919 – Friedrich Ebert is elected President of Germany

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February 12

1777 – Birth of writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (pictured)
1804 – Death of philosopher Immanuel Kant
1916 – Death of mathematician Richard Dedekind

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February 13

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

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February 14

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

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February 15

1637 – Death of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
1781 – Death of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (pictured)
1909 – Birth of artist HAP Grieshaber

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February 16

1497 – Birth of theologian Philip Melanchthon (pictured), a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation
1821 – Birth of explorer Heinrich Barth
1826 – Birth of poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel

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February 17

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

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February 18

1546 – Death of reformer Martin Luther (pictured)
1856 – Death of poet Heinrich Heine
1867 – Birth of writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler
1943 – Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech

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February 19

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

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February 20

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

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February 21

1484 - Birth of elector Joachim I of Brandenburg
1880 - Birth of Waldemar Bonsels (pictured), author of Maya the Bee
1916 - The Battle of Verdun begins
1919 - Assassination of politician Kurt Eisner, the first minister-president of Bavaria

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February 22

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

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February 23

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

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February 24

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

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February 25

1591 - Birth of Friedrich von Spee, Jesuit writer who opposed the witch trials
1842 - Birth of Karl May (pictured), best-selling German author of Winnetou
1913 - Birth of Gert Fröbe, the actor who played Goldfinger

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February 26

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

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February 27

1531 - Establishment of the Schmalkaldic League, a defensive league of protestant princes
1900 - Foundation of FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club
1905 - Inauguration of Berlin Cathedral (pictured)
1933 - The Reichstag burns down in the Reichstag fire

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February 28

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

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February 29

1528 - Birth of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (pictured), a leader of the German Counter-Reformation
1820 - Death of literary critic and historian Johann Joachim Eschenburg
1868 - Death of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, whose 1810 wedding was the occasion of the first Oktoberfest

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