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March 1

1547 - Birth of scholastic philosopher Rudolph Goclenius, inventor of the terms ontology and psychology
1768 - Death of philosopher Hermann Samuel Reimarus
1858 - Birth of sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel
1933 - Alleged birth of member of parliament Jakob Maria Mierscheid (SPD)

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March 2

1830 - Death of physician Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, discoverer of the macula in the eye
1840 - Death of astronomer Heinrich Olbers after whom Olbers' paradox is named
1900 - Birth of composer Kurt Weill
1940 - Birth of Lothar de Maizière, the last Prime Minister of the GDR

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March 3

1918 - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed by Russia and the Central Powers
1845 - Birth of mathematician Georg Cantor, one of the founders of set theory
1706 - Death of Baroque composer and organist Johann Pachelbel
1871 - Elections for the first Reichstag of the German Empire

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March 4

1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1793 - Birth of philologist and critic Karl Lachmann
1936 - First flight of zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg, one of the two largest flying crafts every built
1941 - Death of pacifist Ludwig Quidde, recipient of the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize

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March 5

1871 - Birth of Socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, co-founder of the Spartacist League
1904 - Birth of Catholic theologian Karl Rahner
1815 - Death of physician Franz Mesmer
1922 - Premiere of F.W. Murnau's silent movie Nosferatu

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March 6

1459 - Birth of banker Jacob Fugger the Rich
1787 - Birth of physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, discoverer of the Fraunhofer lines
1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
1900 - Death of engineer Gottlieb Daimler, pioneer of the automobile

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March 7

1902 - Birth of actor and signer Heinz Rühmann
1940 - Birth of Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund leader Rudi Dutschke
1945 - American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen and begin to cross the Rhine
1954 - Death of chemist Otto Diels, recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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March 8

1714 - Birth of composer Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
1879 - Birth of physicist Otto Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission and Nobel Prize laureate
1917 - Death of aviation pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin
1947 - Philosophers Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer publish their Dialectic of Enlightenment

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March 9

1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City
1758 - Birth of neuroanatomist Franz Joseph Gall
1930 - Kurt Weill's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is performed for the first time
1988 - Death of politician Kurt Georg Kiesinger, chancellor of Germany during the first Grand coalition

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March 10

1772 - Birth of Romantic philosopher and poet Friedrich von Schlegel
1788 - Birth of poet and novelist Joseph von Eichendorff
1864 - Death of king Maximilian II of Bavaria
1927 - Birth of soccer coach Jupp Derwall

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March 11

1405 - The city of Frankfurt buys the Römer house to use as a city hall
1894 - Birth of Otto Grotewohl, first minister-president of the GDR
1907 - Birth of Kreisau Circle member Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
1931 - Death of silent film director F.W. Murnau
1931 - Birth of children's book author Janosch

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March 12

1607 - Birth of hymn writer Paul Gerhardt
1824 - Birth of physicist Gustav Kirchhoff
1938 - German troops occupy Austria in the Anschluss
1945 - Anne Frank dies in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
1950 - Death of writer Heinrich Mann

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March 13

1719 - Death of alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger
1772 - The play Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing premieres in Braunschweig
1781 - Birth of neoclassicist architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel,
1952 - Birth of composer Wolfgang Rihm
2002 - Death of philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer

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March 14

1681 - Birth of composer Georg Philipp Telemann
1803 - Death of poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
1854 - Birth of scientist Paul Ehrlich, recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his development of chemotherapy
1883 - Death of philosopher and political theorist Karl Marx

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March 15

1830 - Birth of writer Paul Heyse, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
1821 - Birth of mathematician Eduard Heine
1900 - Death of mathematician Elwin Bruno Christoffel
1963 - Birth of football referee Markus Merk
1991 - Germany regains full sovereignty due to the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany

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March 16

1789 - Birth of physicist Georg Simon Ohm
1920 - Birth of Dorothea Binz, supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp
1920 - Birth of Traudl Junge, secretary of Adolf Hitler
1935 - Adolf Hitler introduces conscription in Germany to form the Wehrmacht
1945 - More than 90% of Würzburg is destroyed in an air raid

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March 17

1804 - Friedrich Schiller's drama Wilhelm Tell premieres in Weimar
1834 - Birth of engineer and inventor Gottlieb Daimler
1846 - Death of mathematician and astronomer Friedrich Bessel
1926 - Birth of writer Siegfried Lenz

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March 18

1733 - Birth of writer and bookseller Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
1813 - Birth of dramatist Christian Friedrich Hebbel
1858 - Birth of inventor Rudolf Diesel
1940 - Hitler and Mussolini meet on the Brenner Pass to publicly celebrate their pact
1990 - The first free elections to the Volkskammer are held in the German Democratic Republic

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March 19

1649 - Death of classical scholar and theologian Gerhard Johann Vossius
1849 - Birth of admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
1873 - Birth of composer and organist Max Reger
1937 - Birth of politician Egon Krenz, last leader of the German Democratic Republic
1945 - Adolf Hitler issues the Nero Decree, a scorched earth directive

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March 20

1239 - Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1770 - Birth of Friedrich Hölderlin
1890 - Otto von Bismarck resigns his office as Chancellor of Germany and is succeeded by Leo von Caprivi
1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his paper on the special theory of relativity
1931 - Death of former Chancellor Hermann Müller

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March 21

1685 - Birth of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
1927 - Birth of politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Foreign Minister of Germany during the German reunification
1763 - Birth of poet Jean Paul
1751 - Death of publisher Johann Heinrich Zedler, publisher of the Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon encyclopedia

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March 22

1797 - Birth of Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany
1799 - Birth of astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
1832 - Death of writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1937 - Birth of athlete Armin Hary, first man to run 100 m in 10.0 s

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March 23

1881 - Birth of chemist Hermann Staudinger, recipient of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1882 - Birth of mathematician Emmy Noether
1900 - Birth of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm
1912 - Birth of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany

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March 24

1490 - Birth of scientist Georg Agricola
1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis
1927 - Birth of author Martin Walser
1955 - Death of politician Otto Gessler