Monday 14th of November 1831 (-) — Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel dies of cholera
Monday 29th of December 1834 (-) — Poet Charlotte Stieglitz commits suicide by driving a dagger through her heart
Friday 16th of December 1859 (-) — Folklorist and mythologist Wilhelm Grimm dies of an internal infection
Sunday 20th of September 1863 (-) — Philologist, folklorist and mythologist Jacob Grimm dies of natural causes
Wednesday 18th of May 1881 (+) — Architect Walter Gropius is born
Sunday 4th of December 1881 (-) — Mass murderer Konrad Beck is executed by hanging
Beck killed his wife and five children.
Tuesday 19th of July 1898 (+) — Philosopher, sociologist and political theorist Herbert Marcuse is born
Monday 11th of November 1901 (+) — Wife of Joseph Goebbels Magda Ritschel is born
Friday 22nd of August 1902 (+) — Dancer, actress, film director and photographer Leni Riefenstahl is born
Wednesday 31st of October 1906 (+) — Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Fritz Franke is born
Sunday 14th of January 1906 (+) — SS-Hauptsturmführer Gerhard Schiedlausky is born
Thursday 9th of May 1907 (+) — Nazi leader and Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach is born
Wednesday 9th of November 1910 (+) — Judge and President of Germany’s Superior Court of Justice Günter von Drenkmann is born
Monday 27th of July 1914 (+) — Victim of Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder Elfriede Franke is born
Thursday 8th of March 1917 (-) — Aircraft designer and manufacturer Ferdinand von Zeppelin dies of unknown causes
Tuesday 25th of March 1919 (-) — Sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide due to distress in his ongoing state of depression
Tuesday 1st of April 1924 (x) — Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for conspiracy and high-treason
Tuesday 20th of December 1927 (x) — Nazi leader and Stellvertreter des Führers Rudolf Hess marries Ilse Pröhl
Friday 8th of February 1929 (+) — Cop killer Günther Podola is born
Friday 6th of November 1931 (+) — Film and theatre director Mike Nichols is born
Monday 30th of January 1933 (x) — Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler is appointed as Reichskanzler
Monday 27th of February 1933 (x) — Communist and presumed arsonist Marinus Van der Lubbe is arrested
Wednesday 26th of April 1933 (x) — The Gestapo is founded by Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Göring
Gestapo was an abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei.
Wednesday 10th of April 1935 (x) — Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Göring marries Emma Sonnemann
30.000 soldiers lined the streets as the Görings paraded through the city.
Wednesday 29th of May 1940 (x) — Serial killer Bruno Lüdke is sterilised by law
Lüdke was sterilised under a 1933 German law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, 'Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses'.
Monday 13th of January 1941 (x) — Victim of Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder Lotte Marlow is assaulted by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder
Marlow survived.
Thursday 24th of July 1941 (x) — Serial killer Paul Ogorzow is sentenced to death
Thursday 20th of February 1941 (-) — Victim of Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder Lisa Nowak is beaten to death by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder
Wednesday 5th of November 1941 (+) — Actress and pin-up model Elke Sommer is born
Sunday 26th of November 1944 (x) — Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of all crematoria in the concentration camps
Friday 14th of January 1944 (+) — Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter is born
Wednesday 2nd of May 1945 (x) — The German radio officially anounces the death of Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler
Monday 4th of August 1947 (+) — Electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze is born
Monday 9th of January 1950 (+) — Musician Rio Reiser is born
Tuesday 14th of August 1956 (-) — Poet, playwright and theatre director Bertolt Brecht dies of a heart attack
In his will Brecht provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms.
Sunday 13th of August 1961 (x) — East German troops and workers begin to tear up streets running alongside the border to make them impassable to most vehicles and to install barbed wire entanglements and fences along the 156 kilometres around the three western sectors, and the 43 kilometres that divided West and East
Tuesday 24th of January 1961 (+) — Actress Nastassja Kinski is born
Thursday 6th of September 1962 (-) — Composer Hanns Eisler dies of a heart attack
Friday 26th of April 1968 (-) — Collage artist John Heartfield dies of unknown causes
Friday 6th of February 1970 (x) — Member of Zentralrat der Umherschweifenden Haschrebellen and Bewegung 2. Juni Georg von Rauch is arrested with Thomas Weissbecker on charges of assaulting a journalist from Quick magazine
Tuesday 29th of September 1970 (x) — Between 9.48 hrs and 9.58 hrs die Rote Armee Fraktion robs the Berliner Bank at Rheinstrasse of 154.182,50 marks, the Sparkasse at Südwestkorso of 55.152 marks and the Sparkasse at Altonaer Strasse of 8.115 marks
In the Altonaer Strasse Ulrike Meinhof forgets a box with 97.000 marks.
Saturday 4th of April 1970 (x) — Leader of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion Andreas Baader is arrested during a traffic control
Baader was using a fake ID in the name of Peter Chotjewitz but was placed under arrest when he failed to answer personal questions like the names and ages of Chotjewitz's children.
Friday 9th of June 1972 (x) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Mohnhaupt is arrested
Mohnhaupt was charged and sentenced to prison for involvement with a criminal organization, identity document forgery and illegal weapon possession.
Friday 29th of November 1974 (x) — Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Meinhof is sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for taking part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970
Friday 7th of June 1985 (x) — Serial killer Waldemar Stepinski is sentenced to life-imprisonment
Friday 3rd of April 1998 (-) — Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell dies of a heart attack
Saturday 22nd of May 1999 — The Eyes Had it: Two men discussing at the opening of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK's exhibition at Barbara Thumm Gallery
Friday 21st of May 1999 — The Eyes Had it: A passing S-Bahn train
Friday 1st of February 2002 (-) — Actress and singer Hildegard Knef dies of lung cancer and pneumonia
Saturday 25th of March 2006 — The Eyes Had it: A bright lit corridor in a U-Bahn station
Monday 2nd of July 2007 — The Eyes Had it: Underground club atmosphere
Sunday 11th of October 2015 (-) — Drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumental musician John Murphy dies of hepatitis C
