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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 ...
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed, promising mutual non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union and agreeing to a division of much of Eastern Europe between those two countries. 1 September: Invasion of Poland: Germany invaded Poland. 22 December Genthin rail disaster: 1940 9 April Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark ...
The unification of Germany (German: Deutsche Einigung, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʔaɪnɪɡʊŋ] ⓘ) was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without Habsburgs' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part).
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. It was based in Leipzig.
William Seward served as Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869.. The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1861 to 1897 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison.
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 ...
1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1879th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 879th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of ...
Probleme der Reichsgründungszeit 1848–1879, Köln 1968. Hagen Schulze: Der Weg zum Nationalstaat. Die deutsche Nationalbewegung vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Reichsgründung. In: Martin Broszat, Wolfgang Benz, Hermann Graml (Hrsg.): Deutsche Geschichte der neuesten Zeit vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, München 1985.