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The Turnip Winter begins—a period of famine in which the German people were driven to subsist on turnips. 1917: 1 February: The German navy introduced unrestricted submarine warfare, in which submarines sought to destroy surface ships without warning. The Turnip Winter ended. 1918: 21 March
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 ...
September - Fusion of German companies Kaufhof and Karstadt; 18 September - Hans-Georg Maaßen the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is moved from his role to a role as state secretary in Horst Seehofer ministry. after he caused controversy following the 2018 Chemnitz protests, when Maaßen questioned whether there was any credible evidence for such "hunts ...
February 22 — Karin Dor, German actress (died 2017) March 4 - F. W. Bernstein, German cartoonist and poet (died 2018) March 11 - Christian Wolff, German actor; March 21 — Fritz Pleitgen, German journalist (died 2022) March 25 - Dietrich Stobbe, German politician (died 2011) March 30 - Klaus Schwab, German economist, founder of the World ...
26 February – Hermann Lenz, German poet and author (died 1998) 2 March - Falk Harnack, German director and screenwriter (died 1991) 18 March - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander (died 2018) 21 March - Werner Höfer, German journalist (died 1997) 9 April - Heinrich Wöhlk German optometrist. (died 1991)
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").
Concentration camp for Romani people in 1937. 1937 Reich's Exhibition of a Productive People held. July: Nazi camp for Sinti and Romani people established (see also Porajmos). [17] 1943 28 May: Kalkum forced labour camp established by the SS. Its prisoners were mostly Poles, Russians, Belgians, Dutchmen and Germans. [18]
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 ...