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22 June – The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. 16 August – Berliner FV, German association football club founded. Full date unknown Gymnasium Lerchenfeld is founded in Hamburg. [1]
Until the early 19th century, Germany, a federation of numerous states of varying size and development, retained its pre-industrial character, where trade centered around a number of free cities. After the extensive development of the railway network during the 1840s, rapid economic growth and modernization sparked the process of ...
The SPD lost seventy-six seats; the CDU-CSU coalition and the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) gained. [44] 2010: 23 April: European debt crisis: Greece requested a loan from the EU and the International Monetary Fund. 29 May Germany wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, with Lena and 'Satellite'. This was their second win. 2010 ...
The Educational Institute of Scotland, the oldest teachers' trade union in the world, was founded. 1847 (United States) New Hampshire is first state to establish the ten-hour workday. [6] 1848 (United States) Pennsylvania's child labor law establishes the age of 12 as the minimum age for workers in commercial occupations. [6] 1848 (Germany)
Heck horse in Haselünne, Germany (2004). Lutz was the third child of Margarete and Ludwig Heck (1860–1951), director of Berlin Zoo from 1888 to 1931. He grew up with his brother in the grounds of the Berlin zoo and became very interested in animals and zoology from an early age.
In 1934, Nazi Germany hosted an international conference on animal welfare in Berlin. [20] On March 27, 1936, an order on the slaughter of living fish and other poikilotherms was enacted. On March 18 the same year, an order was passed on afforestation and on protection of animals in the wild. [ 19 ]
Between the 13th and 17th centuries, trade in the Baltic Sea and Central Europe (beyond Germany) became dominated by German trade through the Hanseatic League. The league was a predominantly Low-German-speaking military alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Baltic and to a certain extent the North ...
Switzerland continued to trade with Germany, and was very useful as a neutral country friendly to Germany. Until the declaration of war on the Soviet Union, the Third Reich received large supplies of grain and raw materials from the USSR , which they paid for with industrial machinery, weapons, and even German designs for a battleship.