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February 1
- 1411 – The Peace of Thorn ends the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
- 1733 – Death of Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony (pictured)
- 1957 – First run of the prototype of the Wankel engine
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February 2
- 1700 – Birth of author and critic Johann Christoph Gottsched (pictured)
- 1943 – The Battle of Stalingrad ends with German surrender
- 1945 – Execution of politician Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
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February 3
- 1468 – Death of printer Johannes Gutenberg
- 1809 – Birth of composer Felix Mendelssohn (pictured)
- 1926 – Birth of politician Hans-Jochen Vogel
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February 4
- 856 – Death of Rabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz
- 1708 – Bach's cantata Gott ist mein König is performed for the first time
- 1871 – Birth of Friedrich Ebert (pictured), first president of the Weimar Republic
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February 5
- 1705 – Death of theologian Philipp Jakob Spener (pictured), known as the "Father of Pietism"
- 1808 – Birth of painter Carl Spitzweg
- 1949 – Birth of politician Kurt Beck
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February 6
- 1887 – Birth of Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne
- 1899 – Death of Leo von Caprivi (pictured), Chancellor of Germany 1890-1894
- 1912 – Birth of Eva Braun, mistress of Adolf Hitler
- 1936 – The 1936 Winter Olympics open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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February 7
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- 1626 – Death of William V, Duke of Bavaria
- 1825 – Birth of zoologist Karl Möbius (pictured)
- 1882 – Berlin Stadtbahn opens for regional traffic
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February 8
- 1876 – Birth of expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (pictured)
- 1880 – Birth of expressionist painter Franz Marc
- 1950 – The Stasi is founded as secret police of East Germany
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February 9
- 1781 – Birth of naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (pictured)
- 1834 – Birth of author Felix Dahn
- 1905 – Death of artist Adolph Menzel
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February 10
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- 1898 – Birth of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht
- 1923 – Death of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (pictured), winner of the first Nobel Prize in Physics
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February 11
- 1141 – Death of mystic Hugh of St Victor
- 1816 – Birth of printer and publisher Ernst Litfaß
- 1869 – Birth of poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler (pictured)
- 1919 – Friedrich Ebert is elected President of Germany
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February 12
- 1777 – Birth of writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (pictured)
- 1804 – Death of philosopher Immanuel Kant
- 1916 – Death of mathematician Richard Dedekind
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February 13
- 1805 – Birth of mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (pictured)
- 1883 – Death of composer Richard Wagner
- 1945 – The bombing of Dresden starts
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February 14
- 1780 – Birth of scientist Johann Friedrich Naumann, considered the founder of ornithology
- 1895 – Birth of philosopher and sociologist Max Horkheimer
- 1943 – Death of mathematician David Hilbert (pictured)
- 1981 – The first episode of Wetten, dass..? is broadcast
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February 15
- 1637 – Death of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1781 – Death of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (pictured)
- 1909 – Birth of artist HAP Grieshaber
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February 16
- 1497 – Birth of theologian Philip Melanchthon (pictured), a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation
- 1821 – Birth of explorer Heinrich Barth
- 1826 – Birth of poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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February 17
- 1699 – Birth of painter and architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (pictured)
- 1752 – Birth of author Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
- 1888 – Birth of physicist Otto Stern, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics
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February 18
- 1546 – Death of reformer Martin Luther (pictured)
- 1856 – Death of poet Heinrich Heine
- 1867 – Birth of writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler
- 1943 – Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech
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February 19
- 1660 – Birth of physician Friedrich Hoffmann
- 1837 – Birth of dramatist and revolutionary Georg Büchner
- 1877 – Birth of expressionist painter Gabriele Münter (pictured)
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February 20
- 1751 – Birth of poet and translator Johann Heinrich Voß (pictured), best known for his translation of Homer's Odyssey
- 1762 – Death of astronomer Tobias Mayer, famous for his studies of the Moon
- 1909 – Birth of actor and comedian Heinz Erhardt
- 1937 – Birth of biochemist Robert Huber, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1972 – Death of physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
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February 21
- 1484 - Birth of elector Joachim I of Brandenburg
- 1880 - Birth of Waldemar Bonsels (pictured), author of Maya the Bee
- 1916 - The Battle of Verdun begins
- 1919 - Assassination of politician Kurt Eisner, the first minister-president of Bavaria
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February 22
- 1840 - Birth of Social democratic politician August Bebel
- 1857 - Birth of physicist Heinrich Hertz (pictured), discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
- 1902 - Birth of physicist Fritz Strassmann, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
- 1943 - White Rose resistance fighters Christoph Probst and Hans and Sophie Scholl are tried and executed
- 1972 - Birth of speed skater Claudia Pechstein, winner of five olympic gold medals
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February 23
- 1855 - Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- 1893 - Rudolf Diesel is granted a patent for the Diesel engine
- 1899 - Birth of author Erich Kästner (pictured), known for his children's books such as Lottie and Lisa
- 1945 - Birth of Georg Milbradt, minister-president of Saxony
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February 24
- 1622 - Birth of theologian and philosopher Johannes Clauberg
- 1786 - Birth of philologist Wilhelm Grimm, known for Deutsches Wörterbuch and Grimm's Fairy Tales
- 1799 - Death of scientist and aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (pictured)
- 1920 - The NSDAP is created by the renaming of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
- 2005 - Death of former minister of state Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski
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February 25
- 1591 - Birth of Friedrich von Spee, Jesuit writer who opposed the witch trials
- 1842 - Birth of Karl May (pictured), best-selling German author of Winnetou
- 1913 - Birth of Gert Fröbe, the actor who played Goldfinger
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February 26
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- 1829 - Death of painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (pictured), known for his portrait of Goethe
- 1931 - Death of Otto Wallach, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1924 - The trial against Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff for the Beer Hall putsch begins
- 1935 - The Luftwaffe is re-founded in a violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
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February 27
- 1531 - Establishment of the Schmalkaldic League, a defensive league of protestant princes
- 1900 - Foundation of FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club
- 1905 - Inauguration of Berlin Cathedral (pictured)
- 1933 - The Reichstag burns down in the Reichstag fire
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February 28
- 1746 - Death of historian Hermann von der Hardt
- 1833 - Birth of field marshal Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (pictured), strategist of the Schlieffen Plan
- 1900 - Birth of sailplane designer Wolf Hirth
- 1944 - Birth of Sepp Maier, goalkeeper of the German national football team in the Football World Cup 1974
- 2002 - Last day on which the German Mark is accepted as a form of payment
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February 29
- 1528 - Birth of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (pictured), a leader of the German Counter-Reformation
- 1820 - Death of literary critic and historian Johann Joachim Eschenburg
- 1868 - Death of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, whose 1810 wedding was the occasion of the first Oktoberfest
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