* February 10 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian ( b. 1702 )

* February 11 – Albert Christoph Dies, German composer ( d. 1822 )

* February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile ( b. 1742 )

* February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer ( d. 1766 )

* In February 1943, university students Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst of the White Rose protest movement, were beheaded for distributing anti-war and anti-Nazi leaflets.

* February 1: Christoph Eymann becomes president of the government of Basel-Stadt.

Johann Christoph Gottsched ( 2 February 1700 – 12 December 1766 ) was a German author and critic.

Friedrich Christoph Oetinger ( 2 May 1702 – 10 February 1782 ) was a German theosopher.

* February 10-Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, theosopher ( born 1702 )

* February 2-Johann Christoph Gottsched ( died 1766 )

* 2007: 21 February: Ueli Steck ( Switzerland ) breaks Christoph Hainz's record, soloing the face in 3 hours and 54 minutes.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ( 1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799 ) was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile.

* February 19 – Johann Christoph Richter, composer ( b. 1700 )

John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus ( February 5, 1882July 31, 1949 ) was the Governor of North Carolina from 1933 to 1937.

* February 7 – Christoph Schaffrath, composer ( born 1709 )

* 1985: Siegfried Matthus – Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, 16 February 1985

* Christoph Probst ( born 6 November 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee: executed 22 February 1943 in Munich ) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose ( Weiße Rose ) resistance group.

Matthias Abele von und zu Lilienberg ( 17 February, 1618 – 14 November, 1677 ) brother of Christoph Ignaz Abele, was a mine official and jurist in Steyer, Austria.

* February 22-Johann Christoph Bach, organist, elder brother of Johann Sebastian ( born 1642 )

Christoph Badelt ( born February 26, 1951 ) is the current Rector of the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

* February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet

Christoph von Wangenheim ( 21 February 1942 – 9 March 1981 ) was a top professional fashion photographer of the late 1960s through early 1980s.

Christoph Hermann Probst ( born 6 November 1919, Murnau am Staffelsee – 22 February 1943, Munich ) was a German student of medicine and a member of the White Rose ( Weiße Rose ) resistance group.

On 22 February 1943, Christoph Probst and the Scholls were tried and sentenced together at the Volksgerichtshof by judge Roland Freisler, who was known for often determining sentences even before the trial, and all three were sentenced to death by guillotine.

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

Anton Drexler ( 13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942 ) was a German far-right political leader of the 1920s, instrumental in the formation of the anti-communist German Workers ' Party.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;, ) ( 30 April 177723 February 1855 ) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

* SS Corvus, a Norwegian steamship sunk by German U-boats in February 1945

February 14, 1943 ) was a German mathematician.

In the recess drafted on 9 February 1523, however, the German princes rejected this appeal.

Eusebius Amort ( November 15, 1692 – February 5, 1775 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.

Emil Kraepelin ( 15 February 1856, Neustrelitz – 7 October 1926, Munich ) was a German psychiatrist.

In a February 26, 1942, letter to German diplomat Martin Luther ( diplomat ) | Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the " Endlösung der Judenfrage " ( Final Solution to the Jewish Question ).

As a reaction to the artistic and economic stagnation of German cinema, a group of young film-makers issued the Oberhausen Manifesto on February 28, 1962.

The German stance was altered radically after 10 February when Leon Trotsky, despite the weakness of the Bolsheviks ' position, broke off negotiations, hoping revolutions would break out in the German Empire and change everything.

Representatives of White Finland in Berlin duly requested help on 14 February ; on 13 February the German Imperial Military Council had made the decision to send troops to Finland.

The final blow to the cause of the Finnish Reds was dealt when the Bolsheviks broke off the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, leading to the German eastern offensive in February 1918.

Moreover, the Swedish Navy escorted the German naval squadron, transporting German weapons to the Finnish Whites, and allowed the squadron to pass through Swedish territorial waters in February 1918.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 22 January 172915 February 1781 ) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Hermann Ebbinghaus ( January 24, 1850 — February 26, 1909 ) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

In November 1942, the Allied forces retook Cyrenaica ; by February 1943, the last German and Italian soldiers were driven from Libya.

In February 2009, the Polish paper Polska wrote that over one third of the Federation top officials were former Nazi activists, and based this on an article published by the German magazine Der Spiegel in 2006.