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April 1

1963 - The ZDF television channel starts broadcasting
1931 - Birth of author Rolf Hochhuth, known for his play The Deputy
1815 - Birth of statesman Otto von Bismarck, minister-president of Prussia and first Chancellor of Germany
2005 - Death of entertainer Harald Juhnke

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April 2

1647 - Birth of naturalist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian
1798 - Birth of poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, author of Das Lied der Deutschen
1891 - Birth of painter Max Ernst
1914 - Death of writer Paul Heyse

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April 3

1827 - Death of physicist Ernst Chladni, known for the Chladni patterns
1833 - The Frankfurter Wachensturm fails
1892 - Birth of mathematician Hans Rademacher
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler is granted a patent for his engine design.
1897 - Death of Romantic composer Johannes Brahms

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April 4

1785 - Birth of writer Bettina von Arnim
1854 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama Faust, Part 2 premieres in Hamburg
1870 - Death of scientist Heinrich Gustav Magnus
1932 - Death of chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1981 - Death of mathematician Carl Ludwig Siegel

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April 5

1877 - The Blohm & Voss shipbuilding company is founded
1908 - Germany's national football team plays its first game and loses 3-5 to Switzerland
1934 - Birth of judge and politician Roman Herzog, President of Germany 1994-1999
1978 - Birth of swimmer Franziska van Almsick
1986 - The bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in Berlin kills three and injures 230

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April 6

1878 - Birth of author Erich Mühsam
1884 - Death of poet Emanuel Geibel
1911 - Birth of biochemist Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1972 - Death of former President of Germany Heinrich Lübke
1980 - Germany observes Daylight saving time for the first time

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April 7

1724 - The Johannespassion by Johann Sebastian Bach is performed for the first time
1885 - Death of physiologist Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
1944 - Birth of politician Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany 1998-2005
1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback is assassinated by the Red Army Faction
1994 - Death of historian Golo Mann

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April 8

1835 - Death of Wilhelm von Humboldt, founder of Humboldt University
1859 - Birth of philosopher Edmund Husserl, known as the "father" of phenomenology
1897 - Death of Heinrich von Stephan, one of the founders of the Universal Postal Union
1992 - Death of literary scholar and philosopher Käte Hamburger

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April 9

1794 - Birth of Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute
1886 - Death of poet Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
1936 - Death of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies
1945 - Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp
1945 - Georg Elser, who had attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, is executed at Dachau concentration camp

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April 10

1651 - Birth of scientist Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
1807 - Death of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach
1883 - AEG is founded as Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität
1913 - Birth of writer Stefan Heym
1924 - Death of industrialist Hugo Stinnes

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April 11

1825 – Birth of politician Ferdinand Lassalle
1895 – Death of chemist Julius Lothar Meyer
1945 – Liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp
1949 – Birth of film producer Bernd Eichinger
1968 – Student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot and wounded in Berlin

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April 12

1928 – Birth of actor Hardy Krüger
1948 – Birth of politician Joschka Fischer, Federal Foreign Minister 1998–2005
1956 – Birth of singer and actor Herbert Grönemeyer
1990 – Lothar de Maizière becomes the first democratically elected minister-president of the GDR
1999 – Five people die in the first serious accident on the Schwebebahn Wuppertal in almost 100 years

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April 13

1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1784 - Friedrich Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe premieres in Frankfurt
1826 - Death of composer Franz Danzi
1945 - Death of philosopher Ernst Cassirer
1960 - Birth of football player and coach Rudi Völler

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April 14

0972 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor marries Theophanu, niece of the Eastern Roman Emperor John I Tzimisces
1759 - Death of composer Georg Friedrich Händel
1783 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan der Weise premieres in Berlin
1868 - Birth of architect and designer Peter Behrens
1886 - Birth of philologist Ernst Robert Curtius

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April 15

1659 - Death of poet Simon Dach
1832 - Birth of artist and poet Wilhelm Busch, author of Max and Moritz
1874 - Birth of physicist Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics and supporter of the Deutsche Physik agenda
1920 - Birth of politician Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany 1984-1994
1945 - British forces liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

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April 16

1823 - Birth of mathematician Ferdinand Eisenstein
1886 - Birth of communist politician Ernst Thälmann
1922 - The Treaty of Rapallo is signed, re-establishing relations between Germany and Russia
1927 - Birth of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
1945 - The refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine, killing more than 6,000
1947 - Execution of Rudolf Höß, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp

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April 17

1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
1574 - Death of classical scholar Joachim Camerarius
1794 - Birth of botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
1870 - Birth of architect Max Berg, who built the Hala Ludowa in Wrocław
1899 - Death of mathematician Wilhelm Jordan

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April 18

1567 - Death of adventurer Wilhelm von Grumbach
1873 - Death of chemist Justus von Liebig
1947 - British units attempt to destroy the island of Heligoland in a large explosion
1955 - Death of physicist Albert Einstein, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics

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April 19

1529 - In the Protestation at Speyer, a group of rulers and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms
1560 - Death of theologian Philip Melanchthon
1922 - Birth of World War II ace Erich Hartmann
1967 - Death of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany 1949–1963
2005 - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is elected Pope Benedict XVI

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April 20

1494 - Birth of Protestant reformer Johannes Agricola
1643 - Death of composer Christoph Demantius
1889 - Birth of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
1918 - Death of physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
1998 - The terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution

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April 21

1488 - Birth of Imperial Knight and humanist Ulrich von Hutten
1864 - Birth of sociologist Max Weber
1900 - Birth of Nazi journalist Hans Fritzsche
1918 - The Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen is shot down
1946 - In the Soviet occupation zone, KPD and SPD are united to form the SED

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April 22

1401 - Capture of Klaus Störtebeker
1724 - Birth of philosopher Immanuel Kant
1915 - Germany becomes the first nation to use chemical weapons in the Second Battle of Ypres
1945 - Death of artist Käthe Kollwitz
1980 - Death of physicist Fritz Strassmann, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission

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April 23

1516 - The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law is decreed by William IV, Duke of Bavaria
1805 - Birth of philosopher Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz
1858 - Birth of physicist Max Planck, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
1895 - Death of physician Carl Ludwig

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April 24

1889 - Birth of resistance fighter Johanna Kirchner
1918 - Birth of oceanographer and ecologist Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
1960 - Death of physicist Max von Laue, recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics
1964 - Death of bacteriologist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, who declined the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine under pressure of Nazi authorities
1974 - East German spy Günter Guillaume is arrested
1982 - Nicole becomes the first German candidate to win the Eurovision Song Contest

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April 25

1228 - Birth of king Conrad IV of Germany
1849 - Birth of mathematician Felix Klein
1945 - Elbe Day: Soviet and American troops meet near Torgau
1952 - Baden-Württemberg is founded by the merging of Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern

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April 26

1787 - Birth of poet Ludwig Uhland
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident
1933 - Establishment of the Gestapo as secret police of Nazi Germany
1951 - Death of physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (pictured)
2002 - 17 people die in the Erfurt spree killing

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April 27

1764 - Birth of publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta
1812 - Birth of composer Friedrich von Flotow
1921 - Birth of actor and TV show host Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
1972 - The constructive vote of no confidence against Willy Brandt fails
2003 - Death of theologian Dorothee Sölle

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April 28

1753 - Birth of Franz Karl Achard, discoverer of the production of sugar from sugar beets
1853 - Death of writer Ludwig Tieck
1858 - Death of physiologist Johannes Peter Müller
1908 - Birth of industrialist Oskar Schindler
1977 - Death of football player and manager Sepp Herberger

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April 29

1688 - Death of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, commonly known as the Great Elector (Großer Kurfürst)
1785 - Birth of inventor Karl Drais
1837 - Birth of merchant Hermann Tietz
1929 - Birth of author Walter Kempowski
1945 - Liberation of Dachau concentration camp

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April 30

1777 - Birth of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß
1865 - Birth of anarchist and historian Max Nettlau
1916 - Germany is the first country to switch to daylight saving time
1945 - Suicides of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
1991 - Production of the last Trabant car

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