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.

The electrical telegraph, or more commonly just ' telegraph ', superseded optical semaphore telegraph systems, such as those designed by Claude Chappe for the French military, and Friedrich Clemens Gerke for the Prussian military, thus becoming the first form of electrical telecommunications.

They were in contact with such celebrated cultural figures as the Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano and Friedrich Schlegel.

His pupils included Anton Colander, Christoph Bernhard, Matthias Weckmann, Heinrich Albert, Johann Theile, Friedrich Werner, Philipp Stolle Johann Nauwach, Caspar Kittel, Christoph Kittel, Clemens Thieme, Johann Klemm, Johann Vierdanck, David Pohle, Constantin Christian Dedekind, Johann Jakob Loewe ( or Löwe ), Johann Kaspar Horn, Friedrich von Westhoff, Adam Krieger, Johann Wilhelm Furchheim, Carlo Farina.

Based on Anne Catherine's growing reputation, during her life a number of figures who were influential in the renewal movement of the Church early in the 19th century came to visit her, among them Clemens von Vischering, the Archbishop of Cologne, Johann Michael Sailer, the Bishop of Ratisbon, Bernhard Overberg and authors Luise Hensel and Friedrich Stolberg.

* Germany: Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, Clemens Brentano, Joseph von Eichendorff, Achim von Arnim

* Serenade for baritone and eight instruments ( T: Friedrich Hölderlin, Clemens Brentano ) op. 38 ( 1955 )

" (* Fritz is the colloquial term for Friedrich like Willy – William )

* Jean Paul (* 21 March 1763 in Wunsiedel ; † 14 November 1825 in Bayreuth ; in fact Johann Paul Friedrich Richter ), author

* Dekan Friedrich Bauer (* 1803 ; † 1873 ), member of the Frankfurt Parliament, delegate of the Bavarian parliament

* Johann Christoph Friedrich, the ' Bückeburg ' Bach (* 1732 ; † 1795 )

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ( 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions ( which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli ).

Carl Friedrich Abel ( 22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787 ) was a German composer of the Classical era.

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt ( 22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835 ) was a Prussian philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin, which was named after him ( and his brother, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt ) in 1949.

* 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.

* September 22 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor ( b. 1801 )

* February 22 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer ( b. 1720 )

* April 22 – Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician ( b. 1798 )

* July 22 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1846 )

* December 22 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer ( d. 1787 )

The Belgian premiere of the opera was given at La Monnaie on 22 March 1870 with Étienne Troy as Friedrich of Telramund and Feliciano Pons as Heinrich der Vogler.

In response to a proposal first made on July 22 by the commander of his German troops, Baron Riedesel, Burgoyne sent a detachment of about 800 troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum from Fort Miller on a foraging mission to acquire horses for the German dragoons, draft animals to assist in moving the army, and to harass the enemy.

Friedrich Blass ( 22 January 1843, Osnabrück – 5 March 1907, Halle ) was a German classical scholar.

Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen (; 11 May 1720 – 22 February 1797 ) was a German nobleman and a famous recounter of tall tales.

Friedrich Ueberweg ( January 22, 1826 – June 9, 1871 ), was a German historian of philosophy.

He edited the 8th issue of Karl Friedrich Becker's Weltgeschichte, 22 vols.

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick ( April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936 ) was a German philosopher, physicist and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

Friedrich Georg " Fritz " Houtermans ( January 22, 1903 – March 1, 1966 ) was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist born in Zoppot near Danzig, West Prussia.

Friedrich Frey-Herosé ( October 12, 1801, Lindau-September 22, 1873 ) was a Swiss politician.

Louis Karl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen ( January 22, 1865-February 25, 1947 ), was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges.

" Friedrich Denk, together with the journalist and author Hans Krieger, as well as several other critics of the reform, founded the " Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung " ( Council for German Spelling ) on 22 August 2004.

22. 07 % was owned by the German State of Hamburg, 17. 05 % by the state of Bavaria, 7. 16 % by Thyssen AG, 7. 16 % by Siemens AG, 7. 13 % by Allianz Versicherungs-AG, 7. 13 % by Robert Bosch GmbH and 6. 15 % by Friedrich Krupp GmbH.

Friedrich Münzer ( 22 April 1868-20 October 1942 ) was a German classical scholar noted for the development of prosopography, particularly for his demonstrations of how family relationships in ancient Rome connected to political struggles.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ( 11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840 ) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist.

* May 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, composer and music critic ( b. 1718 )

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

Johann Friedrich Agricola ( 4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774 ) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music.

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (; ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978 ) was an Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

Ludwig Alois Friedrich Ritter von Köchel (; 14 January 1800 – 3 June 1877 ) was an Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist and publisher.

On January 31, 1943 the Sixth Army's commander, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered, and on February 2, with the elimination of straggling German troops, the Battle of Stalingrad was over.

The first white dwarf discovered was in the triple star system of 40 Eridani, which contains the relatively bright main sequence star 40 Eridani A, orbited at a distance by the closer binary system of the white dwarf 40 Eridani B and the main sequence red dwarf 40 Eridani C. The pair 40 Eridani B / C was discovered by William Herschel on 31 January 1783 ;< sup >, p. 73 </ sup > it was again observed by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve in 1825 and by Otto Wilhelm von Struve in 1851.

* January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher ( d. 1819 )

* January 9 – Friedrich Ebert orders the Freikorps into action in Berlin.

* January 31 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages ( b. 1788 )

* January 2 – Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I.

* January 24 – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer ( b. 1812 )

* January 15 – Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, Baltic German naturalist and traveller ( b. 1792 )

* January 25 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St. James's Palace, London.

* January 4 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer ( d. 1774 )

* January 1 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian ( d. 1649 )

* January 27 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg ( d. 1608 )

* January 20 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer ( d. 1860 )

* January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer ( b. 1732 )

* January 27 – Friedrich Schelling, German philosopher ( d. 1854 )

* January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark.

* January 13 – Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist ( d. 1825 )

Together, Wilhelm and Henriette had four children: Jacob Grimm ( 3 April 1826 – 15 December 1826 ), Herman Friedrich Grimm ( 6 January 1828 – 16 June 1901 ), Rudolf Georg Grimm ( 31 March 1830 – 13 November 1889 ), and Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie ( 21 August 1832 – 9 February 1919 ).

Friedrich Leopold August Weismann ( 17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914 ) was a German evolutionary biologist.

In 1814 he moved to Hamburg, to the house of his son-in-law, the publisher Friedrich Christoph Perthes, where he died on January 21, 1815.