July 6, 649 St. Goar died on this date in 649. St. Goar was born in Auitaine (modern France) in about 585. He became a priest. He determined to live his life in isolated prayer. In about 618 he found a location at Oberwesel near Trier (modern Germany). Word of his holiness soon spread, however, and his isolation was interrupted by numbers of … [Read more...]
July 5 in German History
July 5, 1900 The German passenger ship, Deutschland, wins the Blue Ribbon (Blue Riband), the award for the fastest crossing of the North Atlantic. Deutschland reached 23.06 knots (42.71 km/h) on one of her 1900 Blue Riband voyages. At this time in history the fastest crossing of the Atlantic had come to have enormous national and corporate … [Read more...]
July 4 in German History
July 4, 966 Death of Pope Benedict V in Hamburg, Germany. Benedict had been elected Pope in defiance to the wishes of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Otto I. After serving for several months he was deposed through the intervention of Otto's army. Otto then placed him in clerical service in Hamburg where he remained until his death later … [Read more...]
The German Military in Two World Wars
Prussian-German excellence in military matters was an accepted fact of life, but in the twentieth century the excessive accent on militarism led to two disastrous world wars. Germany's insistence on building a fleet that could challenge Britain's naval domination underscored German bellicosity and pushed Britain toward alignment with France and … [Read more...]
July 3 in German History
July 3, 1709 Birth of Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie, Margravine of Bayreuth, in Berlin. She made Bayreuth a cultural center, constructing an opera house and attracted intellectuals and artists to Bayreuth. July 3, 1789 Birth of the painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) in Lübeck. Overbeck was a German painter and member of the … [Read more...]
July 2 in German History
July 2, 1298 Death of Graf Adolf von Nassau near Worms, Germany. He was King of the Germans until deposed by the Habsburg, Albert I. July 2, 1648 Photo by NOMINE e.V. - Norddeutsche Orgelmusikkultur in Niedersachsen und Europa - via Mail, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8390199 Birth of Arp Schnitger in … [Read more...]
July 1 in German History
July 1, 1646 Birth of Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) in Leipzig. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher. He occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy. Leibniz developed the infinitesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and Leibniz's mathematical notation has been widely used … [Read more...]
Prussia’s Emergence as a Military Power
After the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia eventually emerged as the dominant power in central Europe. Prussia had been colonized and Germanized during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the Knights of the Teutonic Order, a military order of German monks that pushed back or overran the Slavs in the area. The knights … [Read more...]
National Security in Germany
The Federal armed forces (Bundeswehr) of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) came into being in 1955. Assigned a solely defensive role, the Bundeswehr at its creation constituted the largest component of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ground forces in Central Europe. Throughout the Cold War, the fighter aircraft … [Read more...]
June 30 in German History
June 30, 1807 Birth of Friedrich Theodor von Vischer in Ludwigsburg, Germany. A literary critic, he set the theoretical basis for the period of realism in literature. June 30, 1853 Birth of archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler in Freiburg, Germany. His catalogs of ancient Greek art established an historic order. He was Professor of Archaeology … [Read more...]
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