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1950 In Germany
Events in the year 1950 in West Germany and East Germany. Incumbents West Germany *President – Theodor Heuss *Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer East Germany *Head of State – Wilhelm Pieck *Head of Government – Otto Grotewohl Events * June 5 - German broadcaster ARD started. * July 6 - Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR). * October 5-9 - Himmerod memorandum * October 19 - East German general election, 1950 Births *January 9 - Rio Reiser, singer (died 1996) *January 21 - Marion Becker, athlete *January 22 - Werner Schulz, politician (died 2022) *January 27 - Ulrich Deppendorf, journalist *January 30 - Reinhold Kauder, canoeist *February 2 - Barbara Sukowa, actress *February 8 - Manfred Milinski, biologist * March 6 - Felix Genn, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church *March 22 - Hugo Egon Balder, actor and comedian * March 22 - Herman Weigel, German film producer * April 25 - Peter Hintze, German politician (died 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 October 1990. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed as a political entity during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from eleven states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. The FRG's provisional capital was the city of Bonn, and the Cold War era country is retrospectively designated as the Bonn Republic. At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided between the Western and Eastern blocs. Germany was divided into the two countries. Initially, West Germany claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Germany, representing itself as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Germany
Events in the year 1996 in Germany. Incumbents *President – Roman Herzog * Chancellor – Helmut Kohl Events * Deutsche Telekom is privatized. * 15– 26 February – 46th Berlin International Film Festival *1 March – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 *11 April – Düsseldorf Airport fire * 28 June – Osnabrück mortar attack * 1 October – Jakub Fiszman is abducted. Elections * Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1996 Births *6 March – Timo Werner, footballer * 2 May – Lisa Mayer, athlete *13 August – Antonia Lottner, tennis player * 11 November – Gianluca Gaudino, footballer * 21 November – Gina Lückenkemper, athlete Deaths *1 January – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (born 1906) *6 January – Kurt Schmücker, German politician (born 1919) *9 February – Adolf Galland, German general (born 1912) * 23 February – Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (born 1915) * 26 February – Georg Henneberg, German phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Milinski
Manfred Milinski (born 8 February 1950) is a German biologist who was Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology Career He was born in 1950 in Oldenburg. He studied biology and mathematics in Bielefeld and Bochum, went to Oxford University on a Heisenberg Scholarship and in 1987 became Professor of Zoology and Behavioural Ecology at University of Bern. From 1999 to 2018 he has been Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute of Limnology, which in 2007 became the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. He has been an Honorary professor at Kiel University since 2000. His main research fields are Co-operation, Sexual selection and Host-parasite co-evolution. He is a member of the Leopoldina and the Faculty of 1000. Publications His publications include: * The collective-risk social dilemma and the prevention of dangerous climate change. PNAS 105:2291-2294 (2008) (with Sommerfeld, R. D., Krambeck, H.-J., Reed, F. A., Marotzke, J.) * The ef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 8
Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. *1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah. *1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos. * 1575 – Leiden University is founded, and given the motto ''Praesidium Libertatis''. *1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. * 1590 – Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice of Judaism of his sister and her children. 1601–1900 *1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed. * 1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Sukowa
Barbara Sukowa (; born 2 February 1950) is a German actress of screen and stage and singer. She has received three German Film Awards for Best Actress, three Bavarian Film Awards, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Venice Film Festival Award, and well as nomination for European Film Awards, César Awards and Grammy Awards. Sukowa is best known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta. She rose to prominence after starring in the West German miniseries ''Berlin Alexanderplatz'' directed by Fassbinder, and the following year went to star in his drama film ''Lola'', for which she received her first German Film Award for Best Actress. Also in 1981, Sukowa starred in '' Marianne and Juliane'' directed by Margarethe von Trotta. They would go on to work on six more films together. For her performance, she also received German Film Award and Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress. In 1986, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 2
Events Pre-1600 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law". * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony. * 962 – ''Translatio imperii'': Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years. * 1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy. * 1141 – The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda. * 1207 – Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established. * 1438 – Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda. * 1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross results in the death of Owen Tudor. * 1536 – Spaniard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhold Kauder
Reinhold Kauder (born 30 January 1950 in Bückeburg) is a former West German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, he won a silver medal in the C-1 event. Kauder also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (C-1: 1971, C-1 team: 1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...) and two silvers (C-1: 1969, C-1 team: 1971). References *Sports-reference.com profile 1950 births Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics German male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists of West Germany Olympic silver medalists for West Germany Olympic medalists in canoeing Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships People from Bückeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 30
Events Pre-1600 *1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. *1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1601–1900 *1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by 1607 Bristol Channel floods, massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. *1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Peace of Münster, Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. *1649 – Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London. *1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector#Cromwellian republican Commonwealth, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is posthumous execution, ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of Charles I of England, the monarch he himself deposed. *1703 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Deppendorf
Ulrich Deppendorf (born 27 January 1950) is a German journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ... and television presenter. Life Deppendorf was the host of the German news show ''Bericht aus Berlin'' on German broadcaster ARD. External links * television host website by ARD''„Der Bassist“'' article about Ulrich Deppendorf, Georg Löwisch, 19 November 2011, die tageszeitung {{DEFAULTSORT:Deppendorf, Ulrich German male journalists Mass media people from North Rhine-Westphalia German television presenters German television reporters and correspondents German broadcast news analysts 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists People from Essen 1950 births Living people German male writers ARD (broadcaster) people Westd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 27
Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily. * 1302 – Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence. * 1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this. 1601–1900 * 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31. * 1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In Germany
This article encompasses events, births, and deaths from 2022 in Germany, as well as predicted and scheduled events which have yet to happen. Germany's foreign policy and a significant extent of its domestic affairs have been directly or partially of a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Under the leadership of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose first full calendar year in office was 2022, in conjunction with most of NATO's members and allies, Germany increased its defense budget and halted Nord Stream 2. The German government became a staunch supporter of Ukraine, with it only trailing Poland in receiving Ukrainian refugees between all allies of Ukraine; Germany also cut down on its imports of Russian energy and signed new LNG deals with both QatarEnergy and ConocoPhillips. Domestically, Germany saw a population increase to 84 million, a record for the nation, mostly due to accepting a large number of refugees from Ukraine. Incumbents *President: Frank-Walter Steinmeier * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Schulz
Werner Gustav Schulz (22 January 1950 – 9 November 2022) was a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens. Trained in food technology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he worked as a research assistant. He was an activist for peace ecology and human rights in several oppositional groups from the 1970s. He lost his university job in 1980 when he protested against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. In the Peaceful Revolution, he was in 1989 a founding member of the New Forum, representing the group at the Round Table. He was elected to the first freely elected Volkskammer. After German reunification, he was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2005, and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014. Early life and career Schulz was born in Zwickau, then part of East Germany, on 22 January 1950. He grew up there, the son of an independent haulage contractor and former professional officer from a social-democratic dominated family. From 1964 to 1968, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
