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Joseph Wirth, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany (died 1956) 9 October – Max von Laue, German physicist (died 1960) 28 October – Martin Kirschner, German surgeon (died 1942) 29 October – Franz von Papen, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969) 1 November – Oskar Barnack, German inventor and German photographer ...
1879: 7 October: Germany and Austria-Hungary joined a mutual defense treaty, the Dual Alliance. 1880: July: Kulturkampf: The First Mitigation Law was passed, resuming government payments to Prussian dioceses. 16 December: First Boer War: Boer rebels laid siege to a British fort at Potchefstroom. 1882: 20 May
In 1873 free trade won its last victory in Germany with the abolition of the duty on iron. [4] Tariffs were now for raising revenue and not for protective purposes, with the German Empire therefore almost a completely free-trading state. [5] In 1850 two-thirds of Germany was employed in agriculture and this proportion declined slowly until 1870 ...
The President George H.W. Bush Administration strenuously supported the territorial and political integrity of the former Yugoslavia [152] and discouraged the secessionist movements in Croatia and Slovenia. Bush believed that the United States should not "fight its fourth war in Europe this century," and Baker agreed that "We don't have a dog ...
The Reichsgericht (German: [ˈʁaɪçs.ɡəˌʁɪçt], transl. Reich Court or National Court) was the supreme criminal and civil court of Germany from 1879 to 1945, encompassing the periods of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
Germany's dominance in physics and chemistry was such that one-third of all Nobel Prizes went to German inventors and researchers. The German cartel system (known as Konzerne), being significantly concentrated, was able to make more efficient use of capital. Germany was not weighted down with an expensive worldwide empire that needed defense.
The history of German foreign policy covers diplomatic developments and international history since 1871.. Before 1866, Habsburg Austria and its German Confederation were the nominal leader in German affairs, but the Hohenzollern Kingdom of Prussia exercised increasingly dominant influence in German affairs, owing partly to its ability to participate in German Confederation politics through ...
The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History (2011), 862 pp; 35 essays by specialists; Germany since 1760 excerpt; Wilson, Peter H. Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War (2009) Wunder, Heide. He is the sun, she is the moon: Women in early modern Germany (Harvard UP, 1998).