After serving in the German army in World War I, he returned to Hamburg and climbed the academic ladder.

After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking Wanderjahre — in effect gap year — in which the apprentice learned skills from artists in other areas ; Dürer was to spend about four years away.

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.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

After Germany's failure to destroy the Soviets before the winter of 1941, the strategic failure above the German tactical superiority became apparent.

After the war, Albert Speer pointed out that the German economy achieved greater armaments output, not because of diversions of capacity from civilian to military industry, but through streamlining of the economy.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.

After finishing his studies he went on long educational voyages from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, Holland, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli.

After the Pope condemned in Exsurge Domine fifty-two sentences of Luther as heresy, German opinion considered a council the best method to reconcile existing differences.

After the death of Pope Silvester II in 1003, the papacy fell under the influence of the nobility in Latium, and then after 1046, under the influence of the German emperors.

After the Concordat, the German kings never had the same control over the Church as had existed in the time of the Ottonian Dynasty.

After the First World War, the victorious allies divided up the German colonial empire and much of the Ottoman Empire between themselves as League of Nations mandates.

All the presents being placed round the trees …" After her marriage to her German cousin Prince Albert, by 1841 the custom became even more widespread throughout Britain.

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

After the March Revolution of 1848, the German Confederation handed over its authority to the Frankfurt Parliament, and Eastern Prussia joined the Confederation.

After the last German offensive on the Western Front failed in 1918, the war effort was doomed.

" Stabbed at the Front: After 1918 the Myth Was Created That the German Army Only Lost the War Because It Had Been ' Stabbed in the Back ' by Defeatists and Revolutionaries on the Home Front.

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.

After the expulsion of most of the German population, the city was repopulated and became known under the Polish name Elbląg.

After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.

After the conclusion of the Treaty of Frankfurt ( 1871 ), he was left in command of the German army of occupation, a position which he held till the fall of the Paris Commune.

After the dissolution of the so-called Stem duchy of Franconia, the Holy Roman Emperors created the Franconian Circle ( German Fränkischer Reichskreis ) in 1500 to embrace the principalities that grew out of the eastern half of the former duchy.

After a performance of the ballet ' Tsar Kandavl ' at the Mariinsky Theatre, I first caught sight of the Emperor.

After his education, Alexei married, albeit greatly against his will Princess Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, whose family was connected by marriage to many of the great families of Europe i. e., Charlotte's sister Elizabeth was married to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy.

* 69 – After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.

After the Emperor had deposed the Guelph rulers of Saxony in 1180, Ascanians returned to rule the Duchy of Saxony, which had been reduced to its eastern half by the Emperor.

After his death in 54, his grand-nephew and adopted son Nero succeeded him as Emperor.

After he became Emperor, Caligula claimed to have planned to kill Tiberius with a dagger in order to avenge his mother and brother: however, having brought the weapon into Tiberius's bedroom he did not kill the Emperor but instead threw the dagger down on the floor.

" After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, Francis continued to rule as Austrian Emperor.

After the deaths of Carus and his son Numerian on campaign in Persia, Diocletian was proclaimed Emperor.

After the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Black Ships forcibly opened Japan to foreign trade and the shogunate proved incapable of hindering the " barbarian " interlopers, the Emperor Kōmei began to assert himself politically.

After a decision decreed by Emperor Ichijō, some emperors even had two empresses simultaneously ( kōgō and chūgū are the two separate titles for that situation ).

After the capture of Constantinople ( also called the Eastern Roman Empire ) in 1453, the Ottoman sultan's also styled themselves Kaysar-i Rum ( Emperor of the Romans ) as they asserted themselves to be the heirs to the Roman empire by right of conquest.

After Bidatsu's death, Suiko's brother, Emperor Yōmei, came to power for about two years before dying of illness.

After a brief struggle within the Soga clan in which one of Prince Yamashiro's main supporters was killed, Prince Tamura was chosen and he acceded to the throne as Emperor Jomei in 629.

: After the death of the Emperor Temmu

* 809 (): After a reign of four years, Heizei fell ill ; and fearing that he would not survive, Heizei abdicated in favor of his younger brother, who would later come to be known as Emperor Saga.

After abdicating, Heizei moved to Nara and was henceforth known as Nara no Mikado, the " Emperor of Nara ".

* 810: After the rebellion of Emperor Heizei, he became the crown prince of Emperor Saga at 25 years of age.

After his elder brother Emperor Ankō was murdered, he won the struggle against his other brothers and became the new emperor.

After the death of Joseph II in 1790, Francis's father became Emperor.

After 1806 he used the titles: " We, Francis the First, by the grace of God Emperor of Austria ; King of Jerusalem, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia and Lodomeria ; Archduke of Austria ; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Würzburg, Franconia, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola ; Grand Duke of Cracow ; Grand Prince of Transylvania ; Margrave of Moravia ; Duke of Sandomir, Masovia, Lublin, Upper and Lower Silesia, Auschwitz and Zator, Teschen and Friule ; Prince of Berchtesgaden and Mergentheim ; Princely Count of Habsburg, Gorizia and Gradisca and of the Tirol ; and Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria ", President of the German Confederation.

After the Unification of Germany, in the Empire Unification of 1870 ( Letter of the Emperor ) and the Founding of the Empire 1871, there was still no common national holiday.

After the removal of the powerful Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1890 following the death of Emperor Wilhelm I, the young Emperor Wilhelm II engaged in increasingly reckless foreign policies that left the Empire isolated.