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May 1

• 1218 - Birth of King Rudolph I of Germany
• 1776 - The Illuminati are founded by Adam Weishaupt
• 1915 - Birth of employer representative Hanns Martin Schleyer, kidnapped by the RAF in the German Autumn
• 1945 - Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda murder their children and commit suicide

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May 2

• 1602 - Birth of Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher
• 1772 - Birth of romantic author Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
• 1886 - Birth of author Gottfried Benn
• 1892 - Birth of Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen
• 1945 - Capitulation of German forces in Berlin after the Battle of Berlin

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May 3

• 1761 - Birth of dramatist August von Kotzebue
• 1793 - Death of theologian Martin Gerbert
• 1849 - Birth of Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany 1900-1909
• 1907 - Death of merchant Hermann Tietz
• 1979 - Premiere of Volker Schlöndorff's film adaptation of The Tin Drum

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May 4

• 1772 - Birth of encyclopedia publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
• 1900 - 1. FC Nürnberg is founded
• 1904 - FC Schalke 04 is founded in Gelsenkirchen
• 1938 - Death of pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1956 - Birth of high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth

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May 5

• 1818 - Birth of philosopher Karl Marx
• 1859 - Death of mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
• 1892 - Death of chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann
• 1944 - Death of automobile pioneer Bertha Benz
• 1955 - West Germany becomes sovereign
• 1964 - Birth of high jump athlete Heike Henkel

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May 6

• 1796 - Death of writer Adolf Freiherr Knigge, known for his book Über den Umgang mit Menschen
• 1871 - Birth of poet Christian Morgenstern
• 1880 - Birth of painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
• 1937 - 36 people die in the Hindenburg disaster
• 1992 - Death of actress Marlene Dietrich

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May 7

• 1523 - Death of knight Franz von Sickingen
• 1617 - Death of astronomer David Fabricius
• 1833 - Birth of composer Johannes Brahms
• 1915 - A German submarine sinks the RMS Lusitania, about 1200 people die
• 1998 - The merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corporation to form DaimlerChrysler is announced

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May 8

• 1521 - Birth of theologian Petrus Canisius
• 1928 - Birth of politician Manfred Gerlach, Staatsratsvorsitzender der DDR 1989-1990
• 1936 - Death of historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler
• 1945 - Victory in Europe Day: The unconditional surrender of German forces ends World War II in Europe
• 1976 - Death of Red Army Faction terrorist Ulrike Meinhof

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May 9

• 1805 - Death of poet Friedrich Schiller
• 1837 - Birth of engineer and industrialist Adam Opel
• 1907 - Birth of Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach
• 1921 - Birth of resistance fighter Sophie Scholl
• 1955 - West Germany joins the NATO

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May 10

• 1521 - Death of humanist and satirist Sebastian Brant, author of the Ship of Fools
• 1566 - Death of botanist Leonhart Fuchs
• 1760 - Birth of poet Johann Peter Hebel
• 1878 - Birth of politician Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany 1923 and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1933 - Nazis and like-minded professors and students start the book burning on the Opernplatz in Berlin

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May 11

• 1720 – Birth of Baron Münchhausen
• 1752 – Birth of anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
• 1901 – Birth of poet Rose Ausländer
• 1916 – Death of composer Max Reger
• 1916 – Death of astronomer and physicist Karl Schwarzschild

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May 12

• 1885 – Death of composer Ferdinand Hiller
• 1900 – Birth of actress Helene Weigel
• 1921 – Birth of artist Joseph Beuys
• 1949 – The Berlin Blockade ends shortly after midnight
• 1970 – Death of writer Nelly Sachs, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature

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May 13

• 1885 – Death of physician Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
• 1905 – Birth of physicist Kurt Diebner
• 1934 – Birth of legal scholar Peter Häberle
• 1947 – Birth of Irmgard Möller, member of the Red Army Faction
• 1965 – The Bundesgerichtshof refuses to open a trial against Rudolf Augstein, ending the Spiegel scandal

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May 14

• 1832 – Birth of mathematician Rudolf Lipschitz
• 1847 – Death of pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn
• 1867 – Birth of politician Kurt Eisner
• 1927 – The SS Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg
• 1970 – Andreas Baader escapes from custody in one of the founding acts of the Red Army Faction

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May 15

• 1381 – Death of robber baron Eppelein von Gailingen
• 1874 – Birth of Richard Schirrmann, founder of the first youth hostel
• 1944 – Birth of sociologist Ulrich Beck
• 1955 – Birth of Green Party politician Claudia Roth
• 1991 – Death of mathematician Andreas Floer

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May 16

• 1925 – Birth of illustrator and caricaturist Hannes Hegen, creator of Mosaik
• 1936 – Birth of Karl Cardinal Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz and chairman of the Congregation of the German Bishops
• 1950 – Birth of physicist Johannes Georg Bednorz, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1974 – Helmut Schmidt is elected Chancellor of Germany

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May 17

• 1587 – Death of Gotthard Kettler, last master of the Livonian Order
• 1706 – Birth of historian Andreas Felix von Oefele
• 1821 – Birth of naturopathist Sebastian Kneipp
• 1946 – Birth of musician Udo Lindenberg

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May 18

• 1733 – Death of organist Georg Böhm
• 1848 – First meeting of the Frankfurt Parliament in the Paulskirche
• 1883 – Birth of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus
• 1941 – Death of economist and sociologist Werner Sombart
• 1950 – Birth of actor and show host Thomas Gottschalk

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May 19

• 1762 – Birth of philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• 1891 – Birth of World War I flying ace Oswald Boelcke
• 1935 – The first section of the Autobahn system is opened
• 1993 – Heide Simonis becomes minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein as the first woman to hold such a post

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May 20

• 1820 – Execution of radical liberal student Karl Ludwig Sand, the murderer of August von Kotzebue
• 1860 – Birth of chemist Eduard Buchner, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1896 – Death of pianist Clara Schumann
• 1921 – Birth of author and playwright Wolfgang Borchert
• 1961 – Death of World War II ace Josef Priller

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May 21

• 0996 – Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
• 1471 – Birth of artist Albrecht Dürer
• 1873 – Birth of neurologist Hans Berger, inventor of electroencephalography
• 1936 – Birth of biologist Günter Blobel, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1945 – Birth of astronaut Ernst Messerschmid

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May 22

• 1813 – Birth of composer Richard Wagner
• 1868 – Death of mathematician and physicist Julius Plücker
• 1880 – Death of politician Heinrich von Gagern
• 1939 – The Pact of Steel between Italy and Germany is signed
• 1939 – Death of author Ernst Toller

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May 23

• 1848 – Birth of aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal
• 1873 – Birth of rabbi Leo Baeck
• 1900 – Birth of war criminal Hans Frank, Governor-General of occupied Poland
• 1949 – Proclamation of the Basic Law and founding of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1965 – Birth of film director Tom Tykwer

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May 24

• 1686 – Birth of physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit
• 1734 – Death of chemist Georg Ernst Stahl
• 1810 – Birth of rabbi Abraham Geiger
• 1909 – Death of explorer and scientist Georg von Neumayer
• 1945 – Birth of New Forum founder Bärbel Bohley

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May 25

• 1595 – Death of poet and critic Valens Acidalius
• 1848 – Death of poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
• 1882 – Birth of diplomat Ernst von Weizsäcker
• 1988 – Death of physicist Ernst Ruska, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics

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May 26

• 1700 – Birth of social reformer and bishop Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf
• 1894 – Emanuel Lasker becomes World Chess Champion, a title that he will hold for 27 years
• 1923 – Birth of actor Horst Tappert, best known as Derrick
• 1976 – Death of philosopher Martin Heidegger
• 1997 – Death of scientist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne

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May 27

• 1525 – Death of Thomas Muentzer, rebel leader during the Peasants' War
• 1576 – Birth of scholar Caspar Schoppe
• 1676 – Death of hymn writer Paul Gerhardt
• 1756 – Birth of King Maximilian I of Bavaria
• 1928 – Death of mathematician Arthur Moritz Schönflies

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May 28

• 1862 – Birth of architect Theodor Fischer
• 1869 – Death of theologian Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
• 1987 – Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow
• 1925 – Birth of baritone singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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May 29

• 1794 – Birth of astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler
• 1880 – Birth of historian Oswald Spengler, best known for The Decline of the West
• 1933 – Birth of conductor Helmuth Rilling
• 1934 – Synod of the Confessing Church in Barmen starts, leading to the Barmen declaration
• 1994 – Death of East German leader Erich Honecker

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May 30

• 1800 – Birth of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
• 1832 – End of the Hambacher Fest democratic meeting
• 1910 – Birth of actress Inge Meysel
• 1968 – The German Emergency Acts are passed
• 1992 – Death of former president Karl Carstens

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May 31

• 1740 — Death of "soldier king" Frederick William I of Prussia
• 1773 — Birth of poet Ludwig Tieck
• 1903 — VfB Leipzig becomes the first German football champion
• 1916 — German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland
• 1945 — Birth of movie director Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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