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1961 In Germany
Events in the year 1961 in Germany. Incumbents *President – Heinrich Lübke *Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer Events *25 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 *23 June - 4 July - 11th Berlin International Film Festival *17 September - West German federal election, 1961 *14 November - The Fourth Adenauer cabinet, led by Konrad Adenauer, is sworn in. * Date unknown - The Bark scale is devised by German acoustics scientist Eberhard Zwicker and named after Heinrich Barkhausen who proposes the first subjective measurements of loudness. Births *24 January — Guido Buchwald, German football player *9 January — Petra Thümer, German swimmer *5 February — Dietmar Bär, German actor *6 February — Malu Dreyer, German politician *18 February — Armin Laschet, German politician *25 February — Hermann Gröhe, German politician *20 March — Maja Maranow, German actress (died 2016) *21 March — Lothar Matthäus, German football player and manager *19 April — ... [...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] |
24 January
Events Pre-1600 * 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula. * 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt. *1438 – The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV. *1458 – Matthias Corvinus is elected King of Hungary. *1536 – King Henry VIII of England suffers an accident while jousting, leading to a brain injury that historians say may have influenced his later erratic behaviour and possible impotence. 1601–1900 *1651 – Arauco War: Spanish and Mapuche authorities meet in the Parliament of Boroa renewing the fragile peace established at the parliaments of Quillín in 1641 and 1647. *1679 – King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament. *1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. *1758 – During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of Königsberg submit to Elizabeth of Russia, thus forming Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In Germany
This list details notable events that occurred in 2016 in Germany. Incumbents *President: Joachim Gauck * Chancellor: Angela Merkel Events January *January 1 – New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany *January 30–31 - 2016 FIL World Luge Championships in Königssee February *February 9 - Bad Aibling rail accident *February 3–7 - 2016 German Masters *February 11–21 - 66th Berlin International Film Festival *February 25: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 March * CeBIT in Hanover * ITB Berlin in Berlin * Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig * Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 * March 13: Baden-Württemberg state election, 2016 * March 13: Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2016 * March 13: Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2016 * Böhmermann affair April * Hanover Messe in Hanover * Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin May * 10 May: Munich knife attack June * Kiel Week in Kiel *2016 Düsseldorf terrorism plot *9-12: 2016 Bilderberg Conference in Dresden J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maja Maranow
Maja Maranow (20 March 1961 – 4 January 2016) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 60 films and television shows between 1983 and 2016. On January 4, 2016, Maranow died of breast cancer in Berlin, aged 54. (in German) Selected filmography * '' Tage im Hotel'' (1983) * '''' (1985) * ' (1987, TV series, 6 episodes) * '' |
20 March
Events Pre-1600 * 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka. * 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. *1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599). 1601–1900 *1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established. *1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. *1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings. *1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. *1848 – German revolutions of 1848–49: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. *1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' is published. *1854 &nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Gröhe
Gottfried Hermann Gröhe (born 25 February 1961) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of Health in the third cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018. Early life and career Gröhe finished law school at the University of Cologne and was a research assistant at the university from 1987 to 1993. He also worked as a trainee lawyer at a local court in Cologne from 1991 until 1993. He has been a licensed lawyer since 1997. http://www.hermann-groehe.de/page/57.htm Hermann-grohe.de. Retrieved 16 December 2013Archivedat WebCite. Political career Gröhe was active member of ''Junge Union (JU)'' the youth organization of CDU which he joined as a schoolboy 1975. He led the JU as federal chairman from 1989 till 1994. Becoming a member of CDU in 1977, Gröhe has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 1994 elections, representing the Neuss I constituency. Between 1998 and 2005, he was his parliamentar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armin Laschet
Armin Laschet (; born 18 February 1961) is a German politician who served as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 June 2017 to 26 October 2021. He served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 22 January 2021 to 31 January 2022. He was elected to the German Bundestag following the 2021 German federal election, and since 24 January 2022 he has served as Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Laschet earned a law degree and worked as a journalist before and during his early political career. In 1994 he was elected to the German Bundestag and in 1999 he became a Member of the European Parliament. In 2005 he entered state politics in North Rhine-Westphalia as a member of the state government. In 2012 he became leader of the state party, and he was elected Prime Minister of the state in 2017. His Cabinet consisted of members of his own CDU and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). In January 2021, Laschet was elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18 February
Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. *1268 – The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov. *1332 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. *1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London. 1601–1900 *1637 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them. *1735 – The ballad opera called ''Flora, or Hob in the Well'' went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malu Dreyer
Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer (born 6 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as the 8th and current Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate since 13 January 2013. She is the first woman to hold this office. She served a one-year-term as the President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2016 – 2017, which made her the deputy to the President of Germany while in office. She was the second female President of the Bundesrat and the sixth woman holding one of the five highest federal offices in Germany. Early life and education Dreyer was born the second of three children of a principal and a teacher. Following a year as an exchange student at Claremont High School in California in 1977, and her final Abitur exams at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium Neustadt in 1980, Dreyer started her English studies and Roman Catholic theology at the University of Mainz. The following year she switched majors to jurisprudence and graduated in bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6 February
Events Pre-1600 *1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 *1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of his brother Charles II. *1694 – The warrior queen Dandara, leader of the runaway slaves in Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil, is captured and commits suicide rather than be returned to a life of slavery. *1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic. * 1778 – New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. *1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution. * 1806 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean. *1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietmar Bär
Dietmar Bär (born 5 February 1961, in Dortmund) is a German actor. Since 1997 he has starred as ''Freddy Schenk'' in the popular television crime series ''Tatort'' and in ''Ärzte'' (a TV Series in 1994). He has been in several films, including ''Männer'' by Doris Dörrie. He is a narrator of many audiobooks translated into German. Early life In 1981, Bär graduated from the Dortmund Leibniz-Gymnasium. During his schooling, he became a member of the Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterjugend (SDAJ). He was noticed for his acting talent in various school theater projects. Later, he became a singer of a Dortmund-based punk band, ''Planlos,'' through the 80s. He then trained as an actor from 1982 to 1985 at the Westfälische Schauspielschule Bochum. One of his first acting roles was in 1984, as a football club hooligan for MSV Duisburg in the crime series ''Tatort'' (episode ''Two kinds of blood''). Career Bär received his first lead role in 1984, appearing Dominik Graf's hit (TV Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5 February
Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1601–1900 * 1783 – In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. * 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins. * 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. * 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. * 1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state. * 1862 &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
