Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 18
- 1733 – Death of organist Georg Böhm
- 1848 – First meeting of the Frankfurt Parliament in the Paulskirche
- 1883 – Birth of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus
- 1941 – Death of economist and sociologist Werner Sombart
- 1950 – Birth of actor and show host Thomas Gottschalk