* 1640 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer ( d. 1697 )

* 1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet

The German poet Unica Zürn, who made extensive use of anagram techniques, came to regard obsession with anagrams as a " dangerous fever ", because it created isolation of the author.

* 1740 – Matthias Claudius, German poet ( d. 1815 )

* 1719 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet ( d. 1803 )

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

He was a poet and a member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers ' Party ( DAP ) in Munich with Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart in 1919.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

* 1567 – Christoph Demantius, German composer, music theorist, writer and poet ( d. 1643 )

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

* 1933 – Stefan George, German poet ( b. 1868 )

* 1797 – Heinrich Heine, German poet ( d. 1856 )

* 1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( b. 1715 )

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

* 1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet ( d. 1927 )

* 1812 – Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet ( d. 1886 )

German artists and intellectuals, heavily influenced by the French Revolution and by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), turned to Romanticism after a period of Enlightenment.

* 1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet ( d. 1831 )

* 1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( d. 1769 )

* 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet ( d. 1909 )

* 1956 – Gottfried Benn, German poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian / German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet

* 1925 – Erich Göstl, German soldier ( d. 1990 )

The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).

* 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.

Ebert had meant these sayings as a tribute to the German soldier, but it only contributed to the prevailing feeling.

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov wrote that German films of the 1950s showed the average German soldier as a heroic victim: noble, tough, brave, honourable, and patriotic while fighting hard in a senseless war for a regime that he did not care for.

The 08 / 15 film trilogy of 1954 – 55 concerns a sensitive young German soldier who rather be playing the piano who fights on the Eastern Front without understanding why, and no mention is made of genocidal aspects of Germany's war in East.

) of 1959, which deals with the Battle of Stalingrad, the focus is on celebrating the heroism of the German soldier in that battle, who are shown as valiantly holding out against overwhelming odds with no mention at all of what those soldiers were fighting for, namely National Socialist ideology or the Holocaust.

During these operations the Crown Prince won the reputation of a thorough soldier ; after peace was made and Saxony had entered the North German Confederation, he gained the command of the Saxon army, which had now become the XII army corps of the North German army, and in this position carried out the necessary re-organisation.

A German soldier during the decisive Battle of Stalingrad

One was shot by a German soldier the day after an armistice was declared in Paris, the other while sabotaging a train ( Acquaviva 2008 ).

Of the two references, General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, the German military attaché in London, commented that Ribbentrop had been a brave soldier in World War I, while the wife of the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Elisabetta Cerruti, called Ribbentrop " one of the most diverting of the Nazis ".

According to her memoir, Riefenstahl tried to intervene but a furious German soldier held her at gunpoint and threatened to shoot her on the spot.

* 1523 – Franz von Sickingen, German soldier ( b. 1481 )

* All else being equal, the course of war will tend to favour the party with the stronger emotional and political motivations, but especially the defender ( a notion that surprises and confuses many readers, who typically expect a soldier — especially a German soldier — to be a proponent of aggressive warfare ).

The last surviving German, known only as " Steamboat Willie ", incurs the wrath of all the squad members except Upham, who protests to Miller about letting the squad shoot the German soldier.

* Joerg Stadler as " Steamboat Willie ", a German soldier

Fallen German soldier in France, 1917

* November 29 – Ernst von Mansfeld, German soldier ( b. c. 1580 )

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

* April 27 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German soldier ( d. 1921 )

* April 27 – Wilhelm von Rath, German soldier and scholar ( b. 1585 )