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2002 In Germany
Events in the year 2002 in Germany. Incumbents *President – Johannes Rau * Chancellor – Gerhard Schröder Events * 6-17 February - 52nd Berlin International Film Festival * 22 February: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 * 26 April: Erfurt massacre * 8 June – 15 September : Documenta11 * 30 June: The Völkerstrafgesetzbuch goes into effect. * 1 July: Überlingen mid-air collision * 10 July: Swiss International Airlines Flight 850 * August: 2002 European floods * 22 October: The Second Schröder cabinet led by Gerhard Schröder was sworn in. * 16 December: Berlin Plus agreement * Date unknown: German construction company Philipp Holzmann is defunct. Elections * 2002 German federal election * 2002 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election * 2002 Saxony-Anhalt state election Births * 26 October - Emma Schweiger, actress Deaths * 27 January - Franz Meyers, German politician (born 1908) * 1 February - Hildegard Knef, German actress (born 1925) * 8 February - J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years In Germany ...
This is a list of years in Germany. See also the timeline of German history. For only articles about years in Germany that have been written, see :Years in Germany. 21st century 20th century 19th century 18th century 17th century See also * Timeline of German history * List of years by country {{DEFAULTSORT:Years in Germany, List of Germany history-related lists Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Election
The 2002 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 22 September 2002 to elect the members of the 4th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It was held on the same day as the 2002 German federal election, 2002 federal election. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany), Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) led by List of Ministers-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Minister-President Harald Ringstorff retained its majority and continued in office. Campaign and issues The election was the first time that a "red-red" SPD–PDS government faced an election. It was held at the same day as the 2002 federal election, and the campaigns of the state parties were highly influenced by the issues in the federal politics. Parties The table below lists parties represented in the 3rd Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Opinion polling Election result , - ! colspan="2" , Party ! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Drache
Heinz Drache (; 9 February 1923 – 3 April 2002) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1953 and 2002. He was born in Essen, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany of lung cancer. Selected filmography * '' Once I Will Return'' (1953) – Bob Emerson * '' It Was Always So Nice With You'' (1954) – Komponist Peter Martens * ''Spy for Germany'' (1956) – Jim Newman * ' (1957) – Klaus Jäger * '' Endangered Girls'' (1958) – Heinz Sanders * ' (1958) – Wolf Siebert - Young Patron * ''The Street'' (1958) – Bob Schneider * '' The Rest Is Silence'' (1959) – Herbert von Pohl * '' The Woman by the Dark Window'' (1960) – Andreas Wegner * ' (1960) – Kurt * '' The Avenger'' (1960) – Michael Brixan * ''Town Without Pity'' (1961) – Maj. Steve Garrett (voice, uncredited) * ' (1962) (TV miniseries) – Kriminalinspektor Yates * '' The Door with Seven Locks'' (1962) – Inspektor Richard "Dick" Martin * ' (1962) – Inspector Kaufmann * ''The Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 In Germany
Events in the year 1900 in Germany. Incumbents National level * Kaiser – Wilhelm II * Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst to 17 October, then Bernhard von Bülow State level Kingdoms * King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria * King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II * King of Saxony – Albert of Saxony * King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg Grand Duchies * Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I * Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William * Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II to 13 June, then Frederick Augustus II * Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander Principalities * Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt * Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen * Principality of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 ''magnum opus'', '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''), on hermeneutics. Life Family and early life Gadamer was born in Marburg, Germany, the son of Johannes Gadamer (1867–1928), a pharmaceutical chemistry professor who later also served as the rector of the University of Marburg. He was raised a Protestant Christian. Gadamer resisted his father's urging to take up the natural sciences and became more and more interested in the humanities. His mother, Emma Karoline Johanna Geiese (1869–1904) died of diabetes while Hans-Georg was four years old, and he later noted that this may have had an effect on his decision to not pursue scientific studies. Jean Grondin describes Gadamer as finding in his mother "a poetic and almost religious counterpart to the iron fist of his father". Gadamer did not serve during World War I for re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 In Germany
Events in the year 1909 in Germany. Incumbents National level * Kaiser – Wilhelm II * Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow until 14 July, then Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg State level Kingdoms * King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria * King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II * King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony * King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg Grand Duchies * Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II * Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V * Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II * Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest Principalities * Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (who assumed the title "Prince of Schwarzburg" from 28 March) * Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Dönhoff
Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (2 December 1909 – 11 March 2002) was a German journalist and publisher who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. After the war, she became one of Germany's leading journalists and intellectuals, working for over 55 years as an editor and later publisher of the Hamburg-based weekly newspaper '' Die Zeit''. Biography Dönhoff was born in East Prussia in 1909 into the old aristocratic Dönhoff family at Schloss Friedrichstein Kilian Heck / Christian Thielemann (eds.): Friedrichstein. The castle of the Counts of Dönhoff in East Prussia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2006 and 2019, ISBN 978-3-422-07361-6( pl) ( de) (now in the Gurkyevsky District of the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad). Her father was Count August von Dönhoff, a diplomat and member of the Prussian House of Lords and the German Parliament. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 In Germany
Events in the year 1930 in Germany. Incumbents National level * President - Paul von Hindenburg * Chancellor - Hermann Müller (to 27 March), Heinrich Brüning (from 30 March) * Minister of Defence - Wilhelm Groener * Minister of Economics - Robert Schmidt then Hermann R. Dietrich then Ernst Trendelenburg * Minister of Finance - Paul Moldenhauer then Heinrich Brüning then Hermann R. Dietrich * Minister for Foreign Affairs - Julius Curtius * Minister of Labour - Rudolf Wissell then Adam Stegerwald * Postal Minister - Georg Schätzel * Minister of Transport - Adam Stegerwald then Theodor von Guérard State level * Minister-President of Anhalt - Heinrich Deist * President of the Republic of Baden - Franz Josef Wittemann * Minister-President of Bavaria - Heinrich Held * Minister-President of the Republic of Brunswick - Heinrich Jasper then Werner Küchenthal * President of Hesse - Bernhard Adelung * Chairman of Lippe - Heinrich Drake * Minister-President of Meck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Hoffmann
Joachim Hoffmann (1 December 1930 – 8 February 2002) was a German historian who was the academic director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office. Life Joachim Hoffmann was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, in 1930. In the latter stages of World War II Hoffmann's family fled to western Germany to avoid the advancing Red Army. There the family settled in Berlin. From 1951 Hoffmann studied modern history, eastern European history and comparative ethnology at the Free University of Berlin and University of Hamburg. In 1959 he received his PhD in history for his study ''Die Berliner Mission des Grafen Prokesch-Osten 1849–1852''. From 1960 until 1995 Hoffmann was working in the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office, where his field of expertise was the "Armed Forces of the Soviet Union". In his later years he held the post of scientific director. In these years he was also awarded prizes for his work, such as the " Dr. Walter-Eckhardt" Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Germany
Events in the year 1925 in Germany. Incumbents National level President of Germany *Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) to 28 February, then from 12 May Paul von Hindenburg Chancellor *Wilhelm Marx ''(1st term)'' (Centre) to 15 January, then Hans Luther (German People's Party) Events * 15 January – Centre Party member Hans Luther becomes Chancellor of Germany after the resignation of Wilhelm Marx. * 25 February – Adolf Hitler makes his first public appearance since being released from prison * 25 April – Paul von Hindenburg, winning 48.5% of the popular vote against the Centre Party's Wilhelm Marx with 45.2%, is elected President of Germany. * 13 July – France begins to withdraw from the Rhineland. * 18 July – Publication of Mein Kampf * 29 August – Walther von Lüttwitz and members involved in the attempted "Kapp Putsch" coup of March 1920 are granted amnesty by the German government. * 5– 16 October – The United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, and Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (; 28 December 19251 February 2002) was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff. Early years Hildegard Knef was born in Ulm in 1925. Her parents were Hans Theodor and Friede Augustine Knef. Her father, a decorated First World War veteran, died when she was only six months old, and her mother moved to Berlin and worked in a factory. Knef began studying acting at age 14 in 1940. She left school at 15 to become an apprentice animator with Universum Film AG. After she had a successful screen test, she went to the State Film School at Babelsberg, Berlin, where she studied acting, ballet, and elocution. Joseph Goebbels, who was Hitler's propaganda minister, wrote to her and asked to meet her, but Knef's friends wanted her to stay away from him. German film career Knef appeared in several films before the fall of Nazi Germany, but most were released only a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 In Germany
Events in the year 1908 in Germany. Incumbents National level * Kaiser – Wilhelm II * Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow State level Kingdoms * King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria * King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II * King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony * King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg Grand Duchies * Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II * Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V * Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II * Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest Principalities * Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt * Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen * Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe * Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
