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May 1
- 1218 - Birth of King Rudolph I of Germany
- 1776 - The Illuminati are founded by Adam Weishaupt
- 1915 - Birth of employer representative Hanns Martin Schleyer, kidnapped by the RAF in the German Autumn
- 1945 - Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda murder their children and commit suicide
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May 2
- 1602 - Birth of Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher
- 1772 - Birth of romantic author Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
- 1886 - Birth of author Gottfried Benn
- 1892 - Birth of Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen
- 1945 - Capitulation of German forces in Berlin after the Battle of Berlin
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May 3
- 1761 - Birth of dramatist August von Kotzebue (pictured)
- 1793 - Death of theologian Martin Gerbert
- 1849 - Birth of Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany 1900-1909
- 1907 - Death of merchant Hermann Tietz
- 1979 - Premiere of Volker Schlöndorff's film adaptation of The Tin Drum
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May 4
- 1772 - Birth of encyclopedia publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
- 1900 - 1. FC Nürnberg is founded
- 1904 - FC Schalke 04 is founded in Gelsenkirchen
- 1938 - Death of pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1956 - Birth of high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth
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May 5
- 1818 - Birth of philosopher Karl Marx
- 1859 - Death of mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- 1892 - Death of chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann
- 1944 - Death of automobile pioneer Bertha Benz, commemorated by a Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
- 1955 - West Germany becomes sovereign
- 1964 - Birth of high jump athlete Heike Henkel
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May 6
- 1796 - Death of writer Adolf Freiherr Knigge, known for his book Über den Umgang mit Menschen
- 1871 - Birth of poet Christian Morgenstern
- 1880 - Birth of painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- 1937 - 36 people die in the Hindenburg disaster
- 1992 - Death of actress Marlene Dietrich
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May 7
- 1523 - Death of knight Franz von Sickingen
- 1617 - Death of astronomer David Fabricius
- 1833 - Birth of composer Johannes Brahms
- 1915 - A German submarine sinks the RMS Lusitania, about 1200 people die
- 1998 - The merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corporation to form DaimlerChrysler is announced
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May 8
- 1521 - Birth of theologian Petrus Canisius
- 1928 - Birth of politician Manfred Gerlach, Staatsratsvorsitzender der DDR 1989-1990
- 1936 - Death of historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler
- 1945 - Victory in Europe Day: The unconditional surrender of German forces ends World War II in Europe
- 1976 - Death of Red Army Faction terrorist Ulrike Meinhof
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May 9
- 1805 - Death of poet Friedrich Schiller
- 1837 - Birth of engineer and industrialist Adam Opel
- 1907 - Birth of Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach
- 1921 - Birth of resistance fighter Sophie Scholl
- 1955 - West Germany joins the NATO
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May 10
- 1521 - Death of humanist and satirist Sebastian Brant, author of the Ship of Fools
- 1566 - Death of botanist Leonhart Fuchs
- 1760 - Birth of poet Johann Peter Hebel
- 1878 - Birth of politician Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany 1923 and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1933 - Nazis and like-minded professors and students start the book burning on the Opernplatz in Berlin
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May 11
- 1720 – Birth of Baron von Münchhausen
- 1752 – Birth of anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- 1901 – Birth of poet Rose Ausländer
- 1916 – Death of composer Max Reger
- 1916 – Death of astronomer and physicist Karl Schwarzschild
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May 12
- 1885 – Death of composer Ferdinand Hiller
- 1900 – Birth of actress Helene Weigel
- 1921 – Birth of artist Joseph Beuys
- 1949 – The Berlin Blockade ends shortly after midnight
- 1970 – Death of writer Nelly Sachs, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature
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May 13
- 1885 – Death of physician Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
- 1905 – Birth of physicist Kurt Diebner
- 1934 – Birth of legal scholar Peter Häberle
- 1947 – Birth of Irmgard Möller, member of the Red Army Faction
- 1965 – The Bundesgerichtshof refuses to open a trial against Rudolf Augstein, ending the Spiegel scandal
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May 14
- 1832 – Birth of mathematician Rudolf Lipschitz
- 1847 – Death of pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn
- 1867 – Birth of politician Kurt Eisner
- 1927 – The SS Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg
- 1970 – Andreas Baader escapes from custody in one of the founding acts of the Red Army Faction
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May 15
- 1381 – Death of robber baron Eppelein von Gailingen
- 1874 – Birth of Richard Schirrmann, founder of the first youth hostel
- 1944 – Birth of sociologist Ulrich Beck
- 1955 – Birth of Green Party politician Claudia Roth
- 1991 – Death of mathematician Andreas Floer
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May 16
- 1925 – Birth of illustrator and caricaturist Hannes Hegen, creator of Mosaik
- 1936 – Birth of Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz and chairman of the Congregation of the German Bishops
- 1950 – Birth of physicist Johannes Georg Bednorz, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1974 – Helmut Schmidt is elected Chancellor of Germany
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May 17
- 1587 – Death of Gotthard Kettler, last master of the Livonian Order
- 1706 – Birth of historian Andreas Felix von Oefele
- 1821 – Birth of naturopathist Sebastian Kneipp
- 1946 – Birth of musician Udo Lindenberg
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May 18
- 1733 – Death of organist Georg Böhm
- 1848 – First meeting of the Frankfurt Parliament in the Paulskirche
- 1883 – Birth of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus
- 1941 – Death of economist and sociologist Werner Sombart
- 1950 – Birth of actor and show host Thomas Gottschalk
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May 19
- 1762 – Birth of philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- 1891 – Birth of World War I flying ace Oswald Boelcke
- 1935 – The first section of the Autobahn system is opened
- 1993 – Heide Simonis becomes minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein as the first woman to hold such a post
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May 20
- 1820 – Execution of radical liberal student Karl Ludwig Sand, the murderer of August von Kotzebue
- 1860 – Birth of chemist Eduard Buchner, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1896 – Death of pianist Clara Schumann
- 1921 – Birth of author and playwright Wolfgang Borchert
- 1961 – Death of World War II ace Josef Priller
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May 21
- 996 – Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
- 1471 – Birth of artist Albrecht Dürer
- 1873 – Birth of neurologist Hans Berger, inventor of electroencephalography
- 1936 – Birth of biologist Günter Blobel, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1945 – Birth of astronaut Ernst Messerschmid
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May 22
- 1813 – Birth of composer Richard Wagner
- 1868 – Death of mathematician and physicist Julius Plücker
- 1880 – Death of politician Heinrich von Gagern
- 1939 – The Pact of Steel between Italy and Germany is signed
- 1939 – Death of author Ernst Toller
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May 23
- 1848 – Birth of aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal
- 1873 – Birth of rabbi Leo Baeck
- 1900 – Birth of war criminal Hans Frank, Governor-General of occupied Poland
- 1949 – Proclamation of the Basic Law and founding of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1965 – Birth of film director Tom Tykwer
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May 24
- 1686 – Birth of physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit
- 1734 – Death of chemist Georg Ernst Stahl
- 1810 – Birth of rabbi Abraham Geiger
- 1909 – Death of explorer and scientist Georg von Neumayer
- 1945 – Birth of New Forum founder Bärbel Bohley
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May 25
- 1595 – Death of poet and critic Valens Acidalius
- 1848 – Death of poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
- 1882 – Birth of diplomat Ernst von Weizsäcker
- 1988 – Death of physicist Ernst Ruska, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
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May 26
- 1700 – Birth of social reformer and bishop Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf
- 1894 – Emanuel Lasker becomes World Chess Champion, a title that he will hold for 27 years
- 1923 – Birth of actor Horst Tappert, best known as Derrick
- 1976 – Death of philosopher Martin Heidegger
- 1997 – Death of scientist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne
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May 27
- 1525 – Death of Thomas Müntzer, rebel leader during the German Peasants' War
- 1576 – Birth of scholar Caspar Schoppe
- 1676 – Death of hymn writer Paul Gerhardt
- 1756 – Birth of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
- 1928 – Death of mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies
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May 28
- 1862 – Birth of architect Theodor Fischer
- 1869 – Death of theologian Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
- 1987 – Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow
- 1925 – Birth of baritone singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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May 29
- 1794 – Birth of astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler
- 1880 – Birth of historian Oswald Spengler, best known for The Decline of the West
- 1933 – Birth of conductor Helmuth Rilling
- 1934 – Synod of the Confessing Church in Barmen starts, leading to the Barmen declaration
- 1994 – Death of East German leader Erich Honecker
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May 30
- 1800 – Birth of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
- 1832 – End of the Hambacher Fest democratic meeting
- 1910 – Birth of actress Inge Meysel
- 1968 – The German Emergency Acts are passed
- 1992 – Death of former president Karl Carstens
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May 31
- 1740 — Death of "soldier king" Frederick William I of Prussia
- 1773 — Birth of poet Ludwig Tieck
- 1903 — VfB Leipzig becomes the first German football champion
- 1916 — German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland
- 1945 — Birth of movie director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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