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12 January – Luise Rainer, actress (died 2014); 20 February – Rudolf Beckmann, SS officer (died 1943); 22 June – Herbert Quandt, German industrialist (died 1982); 1 August – Gerda Taro, Polish-German war photographer (died 1937)
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) was founded. 2 August: Potsdam Conference: British prime minister Clement Attlee, president Harry S. Truman of the United States and Joseph Stalin, the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, issued the Potsdam Agreement at Cecilienhof in Potsdam.
150th death anniversary of Friedrich von Schiller. 5 DM, silver, 1955. 300th birthday of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden. 5 DM, silver, 1955. 100th death anniversary of Joseph von Eichendorff. 5 DM, silver, 1957. 150th death anniversary of Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 5 DM, silver, 1964.
By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain's while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I, but was defeated, partly occupied, forced to pay war reparations, and stripped of its colonies and significant territory along its ...
1 July – The Agadir Crisis is triggered when Germany's Ambassador to France, Wilhelm von Schoen, delivers a diplomatic note to France's Foreign Minister Justin de Selves, announcing that Germany has sent the gunboat SMS Panther and troops, to occupy Agadir, at that time a part of the protectorate of French Morocco.
Aerial photo of the Dachau complex with the actual concentration camp on the left. The camp's layout and building plans were developed by Commandant Theodor Eicke and were applied to all later camps. He had a separate, secure camp near the command center, which consisted of living quarters, administration and army camps.
5-Mark coin of William II. The federal states of the German Empire were allowed to issue their own silver coins in denominations of 2 and 5 marks from 1873. The Coinage Act of 9 July 1873 regulated how the coins were to be designed: On the obverse or image side only the state sovereign or the coat of arms of the free cities of Hamburg, Bremen or Lübeck was to be depicted, and the coin had to ...
4 January — World War II: (Axis powers): Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.; 10 January — World War II: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.