* 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 ).

For some Chicagoans, however, the appearance of the Graf Zeppelin over their fair city was not a welcome sight, as the airship had become a prominent reminder of the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler to power earlier that same year.

Hitler, surrounded by his associates Hermann Göring, Alfred Rosenberg, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Ulrich Graf, Johann Aigner, Adolf Lenk, Max Amann, Scheubner-Richter, Wilhelm Adam, and others ( some 20 in all ), advanced through the crowded auditorium.

Hitler, accompanied by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Lenk and Ulrich Graf, ordered the triumvirate of von Kahr, von Seisser, and von Lossow into an adjoining room at gunpoint and demanded they support the putsch.

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ( 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944 ), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power.

Accompanied by The Ride of the Valkyries, they promised fealty to Siegfried, Wagner, Nietzsche, Hindenburg, the Graf Spee, the Blue Max, and " Adolf You-Know-Who ".

Besides Adolf Hitler himself, he and Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk were the only members of the Third Reich's cabinet to serve continuously from Hitler's appointment as Chancellor until his death.

With the aid of the Graf von Götzen ( named after Count Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen, the former governor of German East Africa ), the Germans had complete control of the lake in the early stages of the war.

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke ( 11 March 1907 – 23 January 1945 ) was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II and subsequently became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group, whose members opposed the government of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

Along with several of the above, Sabine Freitag also lists Gustav Adolf Techow, Eduard Meyen, Graf Oskar von Reichenbach, Josef Fickler and Amand Goegg.

Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth ( 22 February 1737 – 10 June 1818 ) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall.

The Schenken von Stauffenberg are an aristocratic Roman Catholic family from Swabia in Germany, whose best-known member was Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – the key figure in the 1944 " 20 July plot " to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

* 1945 – Helmuth James Graf von Moltke – German jurist, a member of the opposition against Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, and a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group.

* Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth ( 1737-1818 ), Prussian field marshal

* Leopold, Graf von Kalckreuth ( 1855-1928 ), German Impressionist painter, descendant of Friedrich Adolf

A direct descendant of the famous field-marshal Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth, Leopold was born at Düsseldorf, received his first training at Weimar from his father, the landscape painter Count Stanislaus von Kalckreuth ( 1820 – 1894 ), and subsequently studied at the academies of Weimar and Munich.

Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger, Graf von der Goltz ( December 8, 1865 – November 4, 1946 ) was German Army general during World War I.

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Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal ( February 23, 1907 – October 13, 1944 ) was a German aristocrat and Army officer in World War II who was executed by the Nazi régime for his role in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

In the document Graf Adolf IV.