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April 1
- 1963 - The ZDF television channel starts broadcasting
- 1931 - Birth of author Rolf Hochhuth, known for his play The Deputy
- 1815 - Birth of statesman Otto von Bismarck, minister-president of Prussia and first Chancellor of Germany
- 2005 - Death of entertainer Harald Juhnke
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April 2
- 1647 - Birth of naturalist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian
- 1798 - Birth of poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, author of Das Lied der Deutschen
- 1891 - Birth of painter Max Ernst
- 1914 - Death of writer Paul Heyse
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April 3
- 1827 - Death of physicist Ernst Chladni, known for the Chladni patterns
- 1833 - The Frankfurter Wachensturm fails
- 1892 - Birth of mathematician Hans Rademacher
- 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler is granted a patent for his engine design.
- 1897 - Death of Romantic composer Johannes Brahms
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April 4
- 1785 - Birth of writer Bettina von Arnim
- 1854 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama Faust, Part 2 premieres in Hamburg
- 1870 - Death of scientist Heinrich Gustav Magnus
- 1932 - Death of chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1981 - Death of mathematician Carl Ludwig Siegel
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April 5
- 1877 - The Blohm & Voss shipbuilding company is founded
- 1908 - Germany's national football team plays its first game and loses 3-5 to Switzerland
- 1934 - Birth of judge and politician Roman Herzog, President of Germany 1994-1999
- 1978 - Birth of swimmer Franziska van Almsick
- 1986 - The bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in Berlin kills three and injures 230
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April 6
- 1878 - Birth of author Erich Mühsam
- 1884 - Death of poet Emanuel Geibel
- 1911 - Birth of biochemist Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1972 - Death of former President of Germany Heinrich Lübke
- 1980 - Germany observes Daylight saving time for the first time
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April 7
- 1724 - The Johannespassion by Johann Sebastian Bach is performed for the first time
- 1885 - Death of physiologist Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
- 1944 - Birth of politician Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany 1998-2005
- 1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback is assassinated by the Red Army Faction
- 1994 - Death of historian Golo Mann
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April 8
- 1835 - Death of Wilhelm von Humboldt, founder of Humboldt University
- 1859 - Birth of philosopher Edmund Husserl, known as the "father" of phenomenology
- 1897 - Death of Heinrich von Stephan, one of the founders of the Universal Postal Union
- 1992 - Death of literary scholar and philosopher Käte Hamburger
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April 9
- 1794 - Birth of Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute
- 1886 - Death of poet Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
- 1936 - Death of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies
- 1945 - Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp
- 1945 - Georg Elser, who had attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, is executed at Dachau concentration camp
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April 10
- 1651 - Birth of scientist Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
- 1807 - Death of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach
- 1883 - AEG is founded as Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität
- 1913 - Birth of writer Stefan Heym
- 1924 - Death of industrialist Hugo Stinnes
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April 11
- 1825 – Birth of politician Ferdinand Lassalle
- 1895 – Death of chemist Julius Lothar Meyer
- 1945 – Liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp
- 1949 – Birth of film producer Bernd Eichinger
- 1968 – Student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot and wounded in Berlin
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April 12
- 1928 – Birth of actor Hardy Krüger
- 1948 – Birth of politician Joschka Fischer, Federal Foreign Minister 1998–2005
- 1956 – Birth of singer and actor Herbert Grönemeyer
- 1990 – Lothar de Maizière becomes the first democratically elected minister-president of the GDR
- 1999 – Five people die in the first serious accident on the Schwebebahn Wuppertal in almost 100 years
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April 13
- 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
- 1784 - Friedrich Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe premieres in Frankfurt
- 1826 - Death of composer Franz Danzi
- 1945 - Death of philosopher Ernst Cassirer
- 1960 - Birth of football player and coach Rudi Völler
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April 14
- 972 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor marries Theophanu, niece of the Eastern Roman Emperor John I Tzimisces
- 1759 - Death of composer Georg Friedrich Händel
- 1783 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan der Weise premieres in Berlin
- 1868 - Birth of architect and designer Peter Behrens
- 1886 - Birth of philologist Ernst Robert Curtius
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April 15
- 1659 - Death of poet Simon Dach
- 1832 - Birth of artist and poet Wilhelm Busch, author of Max and Moritz
- 1874 - Birth of physicist Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics and supporter of the Deutsche Physik agenda
- 1920 - Birth of politician Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany 1984-1994
- 1945 - British forces liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
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April 16
- 1823 - Birth of mathematician Ferdinand Eisenstein
- 1886 - Birth of communist politician Ernst Thälmann
- 1922 - The Treaty of Rapallo is signed, re-establishing relations between Germany and Russia
- 1927 - Birth of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
- 1945 - The refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine, killing more than 6,000
- 1947 - Execution of Rudolf Höß, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp
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April 17
- 1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
- 1574 - Death of classical scholar Joachim Camerarius
- 1794 - Birth of botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
- 1870 - Birth of architect Max Berg, who built the Hala Ludowa in Wrocław
- 1899 - Death of mathematician Wilhelm Jordan
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April 18
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- 1567 - Death of adventurer Wilhelm von Grumbach
- 1873 - Death of chemist Justus von Liebig
- 1947 - British units attempt to destroy the island of Heligoland in a large explosion
- 1955 - Death of physicist Albert Einstein, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics
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April 19
- 1529 - In the Protestation at Speyer, a group of rulers and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms
- 1560 - Death of theologian Philip Melanchthon
- 1922 - Birth of World War II ace Erich Hartmann
- 1967 - Death of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany 1949–1963
- 2005 - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is elected Pope Benedict XVI
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April 20
- 1494 - Birth of Protestant reformer Johannes Agricola
- 1643 - Death of composer Christoph Demantius
- 1889 - Birth of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
- 1918 - Death of physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1998 - The terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution
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April 21
- 1488 - Birth of Imperial Knight and humanist Ulrich von Hutten
- 1864 - Birth of sociologist Max Weber
- 1900 - Birth of Nazi journalist Hans Fritzsche
- 1918 - The Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen is shot down
- 1946 - In the Soviet occupation zone, KPD and SPD are united to form the SED
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April 22
- 1401 - Capture of Klaus Störtebeker
- 1724 - Birth of philosopher Immanuel Kant
- 1915 - Germany becomes the first nation to use chemical weapons in the Second Battle of Ypres
- 1945 - Death of artist Käthe Kollwitz
- 1980 - Death of physicist Fritz Strassmann, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission
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April 23
- 1516 - The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law is decreed by William IV, Duke of Bavaria
- 1805 - Birth of philosopher Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz
- 1858 - Birth of physicist Max Planck, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1895 - Death of physician Carl Ludwig
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April 24
- 1889 - Birth of resistance fighter Johanna Kirchner
- 1918 - Birth of oceanographer and ecologist Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
- 1960 - Death of physicist Max von Laue, recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1964 - Death of bacteriologist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, who declined the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine under pressure of Nazi authorities
- 1974 - East German spy Günter Guillaume is arrested
- 1982 - Nicole becomes the first German candidate to win the Eurovision Song Contest
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April 25
- 1228 - Birth of king Conrad IV of Germany
- 1849 - Birth of mathematician Felix Klein
- 1945 - Elbe Day: Soviet and American troops meet near Torgau
- 1952 - Baden-Württemberg is founded by the merging of Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern
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April 26
- 1787 - Birth of poet Ludwig Uhland
- 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident
- 1933 - Establishment of the Gestapo as secret police of Nazi Germany
- 1951 - Death of physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (pictured)
- 2002 - 17 people die in the Erfurt spree killing
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April 27
- 1764 - Birth of publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta
- 1812 - Birth of composer Friedrich von Flotow
- 1921 - Birth of actor and TV show host Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
- 1972 - The constructive vote of no confidence against Willy Brandt fails
- 2003 - Death of theologian Dorothee Sölle
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April 28
- 1753 - Birth of Franz Karl Achard, discoverer of the production of sugar from sugar beets
- 1853 - Death of writer Ludwig Tieck
- 1858 - Death of physiologist Johannes Peter Müller
- 1908 - Birth of industrialist Oskar Schindler
- 1977 - Death of football player and manager Sepp Herberger
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April 29
- 1688 - Death of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, commonly known as the Great Elector (Großer Kurfürst)
- 1785 - Birth of inventor Karl Drais
- 1837 - Birth of merchant Hermann Tietz
- 1929 - Birth of author Walter Kempowski
- 1945 - Liberation of Dachau concentration camp
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April 30
- 1777 - Birth of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß
- 1865 - Birth of anarchist and historian Max Nettlau
- 1916 - Germany is the first country to switch to daylight saving time
- 1945 - Suicides of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
- 1991 - Production of the last Trabant car
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