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Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest. 1954: 4 July
10 March – Carl Reinecke, German composer, conductor and pianist (born 1824) [3] 7 May – Bernhard Cossmann, German cellist (born 1822) 27 May – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843) [4] 10 July – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (born 1812) 26 August – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, pathologist ...
Ludwig von Löfftz (1845–1910) Max Lohde (1845–1868) Otto Lohmüller (born 1943) Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899–1940) Bernard Lokai (born 1960) David Lorenz (1856–1907) Heinrich Lossow (1843–1897) Károly Lotz (1833–1904) Margarethe Loewe-Bethe (1859–1932) Auguste Ludwig (1834–1901) Friedrich Ludwig (1895–1970) Jules ...
On 1 March, Nazi Germany took over the region and appointed Josef Bürckel as Reichskommissar für die Rückgliederung des Saarlandes, "Realm Commissioner for the re-union of Saarland". As the new Gau was extended to the Rhine, including the historic Palatinate, the region's name was changed again on 8 April 1940 to Gau Saarpfalz (Saar
Germany quickly remilitarized, annexed its German-speaking neighbors and invaded Poland, triggering World War II. During the war, the Nazis established a systematic genocide program known as the Holocaust which killed 17 million people, including 6 million Jews (representing 2/3rds of the European Jewish population). By 1944, the German Army ...
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").
26 August – The Kriegsmarine orders all German-flagged merchant ships to head to German ports immediately in anticipation of the invasion of Poland. 1 September – At 04.45 Central European Time, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opens bombardment on the Westerplatte , a Polish military base outside Danzig , firing what are, according ...
The East German constitution of October 1949 created the office of President of the German Democratic Republic (German: Präsident der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik). Upon the death of Wilhelm Pieck in 1960, the office of president was replaced by a collective head of state, the Staatsrat ("State Council").