* The German Horten H1 glider flown with partial success in 1933, and the subsequent H2 flown successfully in both glider and powered variants.

* Horten brothers German engineers whos planes were the models for the stealth bombers.

Walter Horten ( born 13 November 1913 ; died 9 December 1998 in Baden-Baden, Germany ) and Reimar Horten ( born 12 March 1915 ; died 14 August 1993 in Villa General Belgrano, Argentina ), sometimes credited as the Horten Brothers, were German aircraft pilots and enthusiasts, and members of the Hitler Youth and Nazi party.

Virtually every German aeronautical engineer and test pilot of note during the 1920s and 30s spent time building, testing, and flying aircraft at the Wasserkuppe, including the Günter brothers, Wolf Hirth, the Horten brothers, Robert Kronfeld, Hans Jacobs, Alexander Lippisch, Willy Messerschmitt, Hanna Reitsch, Peter Riedel, Alexander Schleicher and many, many others.

Requests for designs, at various stages during the war, were made to the major German aircraft manufacturers ( Messerschmitt, Junkers, Heinkel, Focke-Wulf and the Horten Brothers ) early in World War II, coinciding with the passage of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom in September 1940.

Several of the smaller German ships then broke off in order to capture the bypassed fortifications along with Horten.

Helmut Horten ( 8 January 1909, Bonn – 30 November 1987, Croglio, Switzerland ) was a German entrepreneur who built up and owned the fourth-largest chain of department stores in Germany-the Horten AG.

Ho was a part of the German colony of Togoland until World War I, when it was occupied by the British.

Mr. Ed Jumps the Gun is a German rock group from Berlin, comprising rapper M. C. O., guitarist J. D., bassist Big H, and drummer Mr. Ho.

On 13 November 2001, a German court found four persons, including a former employee of the Libyan embassy in East Berlin, guilty in connection with the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, in which 229 people were injured and two U. S. servicemen were killed.

* Hennock, E. P. " Social Policy in the Bismarck Era: A Progress Report ," German History, ( June 2003 ) 21 # 2 pp 229 – 238 online

In the German federal elections the MPL received 229 votes in 1898 and 20 in 1912 in the Lyck constituency.

* July 15 – A German Arado Ar 79 training and touring aircraft sets an international solo speed record over a 1, 000-km ( 621. 4-statute mile ) course for an aircraft of its class, averaging 229. 04 km / hr ( 142. 32 mph ).

Since the German offensive in the West began on May 10, the AASF has lost 229 aircraft.

Most of the population () speaks French ( 4, 229 or 82. 3 %), with Portuguese being second most common ( 255 or 5. 0 %) and German being third ( 161 or 3. 1 %).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 1, 229 or 98. 0 %) as their first language, Dutch is the second most common ( 11 or 0. 9 %) and French is the third ( 4 or 0. 3 %).

Most of the population () speaks French ( 4, 229 or 86. 4 %) as their first language, German is the second most common ( 220 or 4. 5 %) and Italian is the third ( 132 or 2. 7 %).

Soviet engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov quickly adapted the German concept, using a less-powerful 7. 62 × 39mm cartridge derived from the standard 7. 62 × 54mmR Russian battle rifle round, to produce the AK-47, which has become the world's most widely used assault rifle.

Any one language has only a subset of the aspectual distinctions attested in the world's languages, and some languages ( such as Standard German ; see below ) do not have aspects.

At his death twenty thousand people worked for Krupp — making it the world's largest industrial company and the largest private company in the German empire.

This would bring the German fleet to a strength where it could contemplate challenging France or Russia, but would remain clearly inferior to the world's largest fleet, the Royal Navy.

The British Admiralty estimated that the German navy would be the world's second largest by 1906.

* 1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.

The world's first patent for an underwater echo ranging device was filed at the British Patent Office by English meteorologist Lewis Richardson a month after the sinking of the Titanic, and a German physicist Alexander Behm obtained a patent for an echo sounder in 1913.

Three quarters of the world's taxation literature refers to the German system.

" The rise of the German Empire since 1871 posed a new challenge, for it ( along with the United States ) threatened to take Britain's place as the world's foremost industrial power.

Two German churches have challenged the tower's status as the world's most lop-sided building: the 15th-century square Leaning Tower of Suurhusen and the 14th century bell tower in the town of Bad Frankenhausen.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

In the 1930s, under Austrian engineer Hans Ledwinka, his son Erich and German engineer Erich Übelacker and protected by a high tariff and absence of foreign assemblers, Tatra then began building advanced, streamlined cars after obtaining licences from Paul Jaray, which started in 1934 with the large Tatra T77, the world's first production aerodynamic car.

With inspiration from German Romanticism, Humboldt sought to create a compendium of the world's environment.

The Amelia County Fair was home to the world's largest potato pancake ( with apple sauce ) which was built to raise money for the German American National Scholarship Fund in 1986.

Though once voted the world's sexiest head of state by readers of the German Der Spiegel magazine, few expected Hillery to become embroiled in a sex scandal as president.

Because of this unique situation the economic historian Alfred Chandler called the German dye companies " the world's first truly managerial industrial enterprises ".

Spoken by approximately 100 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union.

Datenschlag was founded in 1996 to collect and provide as much information about sadomasochism as possible — as an offspring of that effort, it has compiled the world's largest bibliography, one of the most extensive history and a dictionary of German BDSM terms.

In addition, he played German SS General Reinhard Heydrich both in the film Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil, and the television miniseries Holocaust ; as sinister millionaire recluse Amos Hackshaw in HBO's original 1991 film Cast a Deadly Spell, who plots to use the world's most powerful spell book – the Necronomicon – to unleash the Lovecraftian Old Ones from eternal imprisonment upon the Earth.

* The ' Little Wedding House ' ( local German dialect Eh ’ häusl ), claimed by town authorities to be the world's smallest hotel.

German physicist Heinrich Hertz constructed the world's first parabolic reflector antenna in 1888.

The Deutsches Museum ( German Museum ) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of technology and science, with approximately 1. 5 million visitors per year and about 28, 000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.

Beck's Brewery, also known as Brauerei Beck & Co., is a German brewery in the northern German city of Bremen and is the world's best selling German beer and sold in nearly 90 countries.

The German courteously indicated that Robinson should mount first.

He had presented the first German performances of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and De Falla's La Vida Breve.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Compositae were first described in 1792 by the German botanist Paul Dietrich Giseke.

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

* 1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

Aachen was the first German city to be captured by the Allies.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

The first German tank destroyers were the Panzerjäger (" tank hunters ") which took an existing anti-tank gun and mounted it on a convenient chassis to give mobility, usually with just a three-sided gun shield for protection.

Friedrich Sertürner, the German chemist who first isolated morphine from opium.

The first complete synthesis of an alkaloid was achieved in 1886 by the German chemist Albert Ladenburg.

" The Four Books on Measurement " were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.