* 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German pilot ( d. 1993 )

Compositions for four double basses exist by Gunther Schuller, Jacob Druckman, James Tenney, Robert Ceely, Jan Alm, Bernhard Alt, Norman Ludwin, Frank Proto, Joseph Lauber, Erich Hartmann, Colin Brumby, Miloslav Gajdos and Theodore Albin Findeisen.

* September 20 – Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring fighter ace in world history ( b. 1922 )

* April 19 – Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring ace in world history ( d. 1993 )

* Jagdgeschwader 71 " Richthofen " ( from 6 June 1959 )— the first jet fighter unit established by the post-World War II German Bundeswehr (" federal defence force "); its founding commander was the most successful air ace in history, Erich Hartmann.

Erich Hartmann was also asked but would not leave his unit.

Erich Alfred Hartmann ( 19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993 ), nicknamed " Bubi " ( the hypocoristic form of " young boy ") by his comrades and " The Black Devil " by his Soviet adversaries, was a German fighter pilot during World War II and is the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare.

Erich Hartmann was born on 19 April 1922 in Weissach, Württemberg, to Doctor Alfred Erich Hartmann and his wife, Elisabeth Wilhelmine Machtholf.

The economic depression that followed World War I in Germany prompted Doctor Hartmann to find work in Changsha, China, and Erich spent his early childhood there.

The rise to power of the Nazi party in 1933 resulted in government support for gliding, and, in 1936, Elisabeth Hartmann helped set up a flying school at Weil im Schönbuch, where 14-year-old Erich became an instructor.

In March 1944, Erich Hartmann, Gerhard Barkhorn, Walter Krupinski and Johannes Wiese were summoned to Adolf Hitler's Berghof in Berchtesgaden.

Erich Hartmann passed the 300 kill mark on 24 August 1944, a day on which he shot down 11 aircraft in two combat missions, bringing the number of aerial victories to an unprecedented 301 victories.

Now Gruppenkommandeur of I ./ JG 52, Erich Hartmann claimed his 350th aerial victory on 17 April, in the vicinity of Chrudim.

At the end of the war, Erich Hartmann disobeyed General Hans Seidemann's order to Hartmann and Hermann Graf to fly to the British sector to avoid capture by Soviet forces.

Erich Hartmann flew 1, 404 combat missions during World War II, resulting in 825 engagements, and was never shot down.

* Erich Hartmann

** Flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109, Luftwaffe fighter pilot Erich Hartmann scores his final aerial victory, shooting down a Soviet Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter over Brno, Slovakia.

* Erich Hartmann ( highest-scoring ace of WWII, 352 victories )

This includes the works of such composers as Alexander von Zemlinsky, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, Kurt Weill, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Erwin Schulhoff, and Ernst Krenek.

* Portrait by Erich Hartmann, Magnum Photos, 1961: magnumphotos. com

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

** Hans Erich Apostel, Austrian composer ( died 1972 )

** Erich Ollenhauer, German politician ( died 1963 )

* May 6 – Erich Fried, Austrian author ( died 1988 )

Erich Raeder died in Kiel on 6 November 1960.

* May 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer ( died 1957 )

Pierce died of cancer on July 23, 2002, and was succeeded as National Chairman by Erich Gliebe.

In 1969, Von Erich took sole control over the Office after McLemore died from a heart attack, and also gained ownership of the Dallas Sportatorium.

Adams, Mike Davis and Terry Gordy died in 2001, and the Sportatorium, which stood since 1934, was demolished in 2003, but not before Kevin Von Erich toured the damaged arena for the last time, along with filmmaker Brian Harrison.

* Mike Von Erich — Wrestler who died by suicide after thinking that he was not as good as he had been prior to a shoulder injury.

German writer Erich Maria Remarque died there in 1970, and Remarque's widow, American actress Paulette Goddard, died there in 1990.

His son Erich, who was a member of the left wing Socialist Workers ' Party ( SAP ), was arrested in 1934 and sentenced to 10 years in prison, where he died in 1944, shortly before the end of his sentence.

* a prison where Erich Koch died

The new Social Democratic leader-Kurt Schumacher had died in 1952-was Erich Ollenhauer, who was more moderate in his policies than Schumacher had been.

* Erich Gimpel lived in São Paulo Brasil after leaving Germany, where he ran a grocery store until the late 1980s and died in São Paulo in 2010.

He went to Columbia University to do a PhD with Abraham Wald but, when Wald died in a plane crash, Birnbaum asked Erich Leo Lehmann, who was visiting Columbia to take him on.

David was named after his mother Doris ' brother David, who had died only months before David Von Erich was born in 1958.

Kerry's victory was a tribute to his brother David, who had died three months earlier and for whom the event, the David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions, was named.

When his father, Fritz Von Erich, died in 1997, he was cremated and his ashes interred in the same plot as Kerry.

He is the last surviving son of wrestler Fritz Von Erich and had four brothers that wrestled, David, Kerry, Mike and Chris, as well as an older brother, Jack, Jr., who died in 1959.

He, however, died in 1959 after an accidental electrocution, and Jack Sr. stopped traveling to the east coast, allowing former partner Waldo to use the Von Erich name in the World Wide Wrestling Federation.

Hans Erich Apostel ( Born January 22, 1901 in Karlsruhe – died November 30, 1972 in Vienna ) was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music.