Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/April/April 26

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• 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
• 2002 - 17 people die in the Erfurt spree killing