In June 1939, Franco-German relations were strained when the head of the French section of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Otto Abetz, was expelled from France following allegations that he had bribed two French newspaper editors to print pro-German articles.

To this end, Ribbentrop appointed a colleague, Otto Abetz, from the Dienststelle Ambassador to France with instructions to promote the political career of Pierre Laval, who Ribbentrop had decided was the French politician most favourable to Germany.

In 1942, Ambassador Otto Abetz secured the deportation of 25, 000 French Jews, and Ambassador Hans Ludin secured the deportation of 50, 000 Slovak Jews to the death camps.

In June 1939, Bonnet's reputation was badly damaged when the French agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Otto Abetz, was expelled from France for engaging in espionage, French newspaper editors were charged with receiving bribes from Abetz, and the name of Bonnet's wife was prominently mentioned in connection with the Abetz case as a close friend of the two editors, but despite much lucid speculation in the French press at the time, that no evidence has ever emerged linking Bonnet or his wife to German espionage or bribery.

Abetz is the great-nephew of SS-Brigadeführer Otto Abetz, Nazi German ambassador to Vichy France from 1940 to 1944.

Friend of Otto Abetz, Darquier de Pellepoix and Fernand de Brinon, he was nonetheless an object of hatred for many among the regime de Vichy.

In the center are photographs of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giovanni Gentile, Benedetto Croce, Curzio Malaparte, Gabriele D ' Annunzio's membership card of the Fascio Fiumano di Combattimento, Benito Mussolini & Gabriele D ' Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello, Ardengo Soffici, Giovanni Papini, an illustration of Oswald Spengler, Ernst Jünger, Arnolt Bronnen, Otto Abetz & Robert Brasillach, Martin Heidegger, Jean Cocteau & Arno Breker, Sacha Guitry, Arno Breker & Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Charles Maurras, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Roy Campbell, Henry Williamson, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Percy Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot.

Dr. Heinrich Otto Abetz ( 26 March 1903 – 5 May 1958 ) was the German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II.

Otto Abetz was one of the few German functionaries who admired and respected von Ribbentrop.

The German ambassador in Paris, Otto Abetz, first supervised and later controlled diplomatic relations between France and Germany, but the power amounted to little in practice.

Here he became friends with Otto Abetz, the future German ambassador to Paris during the occupation.

In 1938, the German chemist Otto Hahn, a student of Rutherford, directed neutrons onto uranium atoms expecting to get transuranium elements.

* 1884 – Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German footballer and coach

* 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician ( d. 1940 )

* 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician ( d. 1946 )

* 1896 – Otto Lilienthal, German engineer and aviation pioneer ( b. 1848 )

German physician Leonhart Fuchs ( 1501 – 1566 ) was one of " the three German fathers of botany ", along with Otto Brunfels ( 1489 – 1534 ) and Hieronymus Bock ( 1498 – 1554 ) ( also called Hieronymus Tragus ).

Philip Augustus of France defeated an army consisting of Imperial German, English and Flemish soldiers, led by Otto IV of Germany.

Meanwhile, Otto stood surrounded by 50 German knights.

* Otto Mayer: Programmieren in Common Lisp, German, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-86025-710-2

Conservative thought developed alongside nationalism in Germany, culminating in Germany's victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War, the creation of the unified German Empire in 1871, and the simultaneous rise of Otto von Bismarck on the European political stage.

The publication of the book Crusade against the Grail by the young German Otto Rahn in the 1930s rekindled interest in the connection between the Cathars and the Holy Grail.

* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist ( d. 1969 )

* 1879 – Otto Fickeisen, German rower ( d. 1963 )

The American team proposed that the new element should be named hahnium ( Ha ), in honor of the late German chemist Otto Hahn.

When, after the death of Emperor Otto I in 973, a struggle for the supremacy in Germany began, both Dobrawa's husband and brother Boleslav II the Pious, Duke of Bohemia, supported the same candidate for the German throne, Duke Henry II of Bavaria.

* 1926 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician

After the formation of the German Empire in 1871, German chancellor Otto von Bismarck wanted to portray his nation as a peacemaker and preserver of the European status quo, as well as gain more power for the German Empire and unify Germany.

Habibullah did, however, entertain an Indo-German-Turkish mission in Kabul in 1915 that had as its titular head the Indian nationalist Mahendra Pratap and was led by Oskar Niedermayer and the German legate Werner Otto von Hentig.

Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.

In September 1944, after German forces left, legal power was briefly restored as Otto Tief formed a new government in accordance with the 1938 constitution.

Germany | German physicist Otto von Guericke beside his electrical generator while conducting an experiment.

* The Ambassador ( comic strip ), a comic strip by Otto Soglow

* Public Diplomacy and Covert Propaganda: The Declassified Records of Ambassador Otto Juan Reich, National Security Archive

Freed from Venezuelan charges, Bosch went to the United States, assisted by US Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich ; there, he was ultimately arrested for a parole violation.

Otto was surprised by the speed of his enemy and was thought to have been caught unprepared by the King of France ( which has probably attracted the emperor in this piège ).

Pope Innocent III initially had supported the Welfs, but when Otto, now sole elected monarch, moved to appropriate Sicily, Innocent changed sides and accepted young Frederick II and his ally, King Philip II of France, who defeated Otto at the 1214 Battle of Bouvines.

The Bavarian Regents ruled until 1837, when at the insistence of Britain and France, they were recalled and Otto thereafter appointed Greek ministers, although Bavarian officials still ran most of the administration and the army.

Following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), German Cancellor Otto von Bismarck proposed harsh terms for peace — including the German occupation of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.

The earliest use of the term " Industrial Revolution " seems to be a letter of 6 July 1799 by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto, announcing that France had entered the race to industrialise.

Otto's election pulled the empire into the conflict between England and France, since Philip had allied himself with the French king, Philip II, and Otto was supported at first by Richard I, and after his death in 1199, by his brother John.

In early 940, Stephen intervened on behalf of Louis IV of France, who had been trying to bring to heel his rebellious dukes, Hugh the Great and Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, both of whom had appealed for support from the German king Otto I.

King Philip II of France supported Philip's claim, whereas King Richard of England supported his nephew Otto.

Immediately prior to Otto III's birth, his father had completed military campaigns in France against King Lothar.

There, Otto II declared war against France and prepared his army to march west.

In September 978, Otto II retaliated against Lothair by invading France with the aid of Charles.

Otto II then had Charles crown as King of France by Theodoric I, Bishop of Metz.

The imperial family was joined by Otto II's sister Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, King Conrad of Burgundy and his wife, Duke Hugh Capet of France, Duke Otto of Swabia and Bavaria, and other high secular and religious officials from Germany, Italy and France.

Prince Otto von Bismarck also wanted a greater role in Africa for Germany, which he thought he could achieve in part by fostering competition between France and Britain.

Napoleon III of France | Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck | Bismarck talk after Napoleon's capture at the Battle of Sedan by Wilhelm Camphausen

* German emperor Otto II grants Lower Lorraine, where modern-day Brussels is located, to Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, illegitimate son of King Louis IV of France.