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1 day ago · Hindenburg is a controversial figure in German history. [206] In recent years, numerous German local bodies have derecognized Hindenburg. In February 2020, Hindenburg's Berlin honorary citizenship had also been revoked. [207] [208] The decision was passed by Berlin's left-wing coalition of Social Democrats, The Left and Greens. [209]
23 hours ago · During the Weimar Republic, Germany had about 3,000 newspapers, of which only 14 were owned by Hugenberg. [44] It was via the TU that some 1,600 newspapers, mostly in rural areas and small towns, used for national and international news that Hugenberg had influence. [47]
4 days ago · 1931 Lujo Brentano, German economist and social reformer, dies at 86; 1941 Gustav Ehrismann, German author and expert on the German language, dies at 85; 1941 Hans Spemann, German embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), dies at 72; 1963 Ernst Kantorowicz, German-American historian (Laudes regiae), dies at 68
2 days ago · Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht [a] (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long ...
1 day ago · Germany - End of Republic, Weimar, Nazi: An unintended effect of the anti-Young Plan campaign was to give widespread public exposure to Hitler, who used his access to the Hugenberg-owned press empire and to its weekly movie newsreels to give himself and his Nazi movement national publicity. An additional assist to Hitler’s career came on October 29, 1929, with the stock market crash on Wall ...
1 day ago · Germany - Unification, Imperialism, WWI: The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year period Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France were vanquished in short, decisive conflicts. The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist feeling from the masses but through ...
2 days ago · Germany - Culture, Arts, Cuisine: The birthplace of the modern printing press and of influential schools of philosophy and artistic styles, Germany has long played an important role in Western culture, and the arts have been central to Germany’s idea of itself. Indeed, the historian Hagen Schulze observed that That ideal fell only when the German nation began to experiment with power and ...
