Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 25

• 1595 – Death of poet and critic Valens Acidalius
• 1848 – Death of poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
• 1882 – Birth of diplomat Ernst von Weizsäcker
• 1988 – Death of physicist Ernst Ruska, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics