* 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer ( d. 1894 )

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

Handel and his father travelled to Weissenfels to visit either Handel's half-brother, Carl, or nephew, Georg Christian, who was serving as valet to Duke Johann Adolf I. Handel and the duke convinced his father to allow him to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of Halle's Marienkirche.

* 1708 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( b. 1658 )

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.

* 1658 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1704 )

Adolf Friedrich von Schack ( 1815 – 1894 ) published a German translation in 1878.

* February 23 – Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( b. 1882 )

* Chemistry – Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka

* November 22 – WWII: Battle of Stalingrad: The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus, and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German Sixth Army is surrounded.

** Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1914 )

** Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1918 )

** Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, German soldier ( b. 1738 )

* October 19 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1704 )

* May 12 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( b. 1658 )

Tangrams were first introduced to the German public by industrialist Friedrich Adolf Richter around 1891.

Hitler became irritated by von Kahr and summoned Ernst Pöhner, Friedrich Weber and Hermann Kriebel to stand in for him while he returned to the auditorium flanked by Rudolf Hess and Adolf Lenkwhere.

Around 11: 00 p. m., Ritter von Danner, along with fellow officers General Adolf Ritter von Ruith and General Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, compelled von Lossow to repudiate the putsch.

Among the architects invited to work in Bulgaria were Friedrich Grünanger, Adolf Václav Kolář, Viktor Rumpelmayer and others, who designed the most important public buildings needed by the newly-reestablished Bulgarian government, as well as numerous houses for the country's elite.

* Electra, opera by Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, Libretto by Adolf Fredrik Ristell after Nicolas Francois Guillard.

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Adolf Hitler — stunned by the attack — agreed that the defence of Holland should receive absolute priority and over the course of the battle reinforcements would stream in ; from Wehrkreis VI, the Wesel area and General Friedrich Christiansen's Armed Forces Command Netherlands.

The Berlin edition was to some extent superseded by the Stuttgart Edition ( Grosse Stuttgarter Ausgabe ) edited by Friedrich Beissner and Adolf Beck, which began publication in 1943 and eventually saw completion in 1986.

Friedrich Beißner ( works ) and Adolf Beck ( letters and documents ).

Karl Friedrich von Schlegel was born on 10 March 1772 at Hanover, and his father was the Lutheran pastor Johann Adolf Schlegel ( 1721-1793 ).

Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”

van't Hoff, and the reform of chemical nomenclature by Adolf von Baeyer, resulted in vituperative articles in the Journal für Praktische Chemie.

His circle included the musicians Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, the painter Gustav Klimt, the writer and satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos, and the poet Peter Altenberg.

Participants included Theodore von Kármán, Ludwig Prandtl, Jakob Ackeret, Eastman Jacobs, Adolf Busemann, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Gaetano Arturo Crocco, and Enrico Pistolesi.

* Harnack, Adolf von.

Later, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, a survivor of Schill's Freikorps, formed the Lützow Free Corps, which took part in the German War of Liberation.

Gnosticism was primarily defined in Christian context, e. g., as " the acute Hellenization of Christianity " per Adolf von Harnack ( 1885 ), until Moritz Friedländer ( 1898 ) advocated Hellenistic Jewish origins, and Wilhelm Bousset ( 1907 ) advocated Persian origins.

Following on from " the higher criticism " of the 19th century, Adolf von Harnack and Raymond E. Brown have questioned the gospel of John as a reliable source of information about the historical Jesus.

Subsequently President von Hindenburg used his power to appoint Adolf Hitler as Chancellor without consulting the Reichstag.

* 1921 – Adolf von Thadden, German politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1944 – World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

In the spring of 1941, Ribbentrop appointed an assemblage of SA men to German embassies in Eastern Europe, with Manfred von Killinger going to Romania, Siegfried Kasche to Croatia, Adolf Beckerle to Bulgaria, Dietrich von Jagow to Hungary, and Hans Ludin to Slovakia.

Responding to a question by The Times film critic Kate Muir about his German roots and his comments in a Danish film magazine about the Nazi aesthetic, von Trier claimed to have some sympathy for and understanding of Adolf Hitler, and then jokingly claimed to be a Nazi himself:

* Adolf von Harnack

* 1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German composer and pianist ( d. 1889 )

* 1981 – Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler ( b. 1900 )

* 1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through.

* 1835 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1917 )

Historian Adolf von Harnack deduced from this that the family was of Jewish origin, but this cannot be certain.

The writer Theodor Fontane, painter Adolf von Menzel, and Dadaist Kurt Schwitters were all guests ; Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacus Communist movement leader read a lot here and even made some key political speeches from the pavement terrace, while author Erich Kästner wrote part of his 1929 bestseller for children, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ), on the same terrace and made the café the setting for an important scene in the book.