Category: German Protestants

Pope Paul III then initiated several internal Church reforms while Emperor Charles V convened a meeting with Protestants in Regensburg, seat of the German diet, to reconcile differences.

On his mother's side, Cleveland was descended from Anglo-Irish Protestants and German Quakers from Philadelphia.

Category: German Protestants

Category: German Protestants

Among Protestants the strong numbers of Lutherans and Moravians point to the German past of the country, the numbers of Anglicans to the British history of Tanganyika.

* June – Swiss and Palatine German Protestants under the leadership of Christoph von Graffenried travel to Bath County in the Province of Carolina.

In May 1561, he went to France in order to bring about a closer connection between the German princes and the French Protestants, and was present at the Religious Conference of Poissy.

Ably assisted by Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, Henry reduced the land tax known as the taille ; promoted agriculture, public works, construction of highways, and the first French canal ; started such important industries as the tapestry works of the Gobelins ; and intervened in favor of Protestants in the duchies and earldoms along the German frontier.

On another side, the Emperor was insisting that Rome should forward his designs toward a peaceable recovery of the German Protestants.

Baptists, Quakers and German and Swiss Protestants flocked to Pennsylvania.

Under his authority, all books written by Protestants were banned, together with Italian and German translations of the Latin Bible.

In opposition, Cranmer favoured a union with German Protestants.

Category: German Protestants opposed to the Third Reich

He was one of a group of Protestants who had left their German homeland in the Rhine Valley, gone to the Netherlands, thence to England and embarked, finally, from Plymouth for New York.

Without him to unify the German Protestants, their war effort lost direction.

The first settlers were Scots-Irish Presbyterians and German Protestants came soon afterward.

It was originally settled by German Protestants from Heidelberg.

Peter Stephens and a small party of German Protestants from Heidelberg, in the Palatinate, arrived about 1732 to buy and settle that land, including the site of what became Stephens City, named for the Stephens family.

Category: German Protestants

German Protestants rejected any “ Papal Peace ” as insulting.

However considering all this, German Protestants rejected any “ Papal Peace ” as insulting.

In 1547 the Bohemian Estates rebelled against Ferdinand after he had ordered the Bohemian army to move against the German Protestants.

Before the end of World War II the ( then German ) population of Lauenburg was predominantly composed of Protestants.

The French were hopeless disciplinarians .. Germans good and methodical, but it was not German that I really wanted Rosalind to learn.

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.

Bismarck wanted to unify the rival German states to achieve his aim of a conservative, Prussian-dominated Germany.

He originally wanted to name it the Secret Police Office (), but discovered the German initials " GPA " would be too similar to the Soviet GPU.

In late 1933, the Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick wanted to integrate all the police forces of the German states under his control.

In 1863 – 64, disputes between Prussia and Denmark grew over Schleswig, which was not part of the German Confederation, and which Danish nationalists wanted to incorporate into the Danish kingdom.

The former wanted the duchies to become an independent entity within the German Confederation, while the latter wanted to annex them.

Although many of these privileges had existed earlier, they were now granted globally, and once and for all, to allow the German princes to maintain order north of the Alps while Frederick wanted to concentrate on Italy.

Stalin also stated that the Polish government-in-exile demands for self-rule were not negotiable, such that the Soviet Union would keep the territory of eastern Poland they had already taken by invasion with German consent in 1939, and wanted the pro-Soviet Polish government installed.

Grimm was adamant on one subject, however ; he wanted the Danish duchy of Holstein to be under German control.

Ribbentrop wanted to buy time to complete German rearmament by removing preventive war as a French policy option.

As for the contradiction between German rearmament and his message of peace, Ribbentrop argued to whoever would listen that the German people had been “ humiliated ” by the Versailles treaty, that Germany wanted peace above all, and German violations of Versailles were part of an effort to restore Germany's " self-respect " By the 1930s, much of British opinion had been convinced that the treaty was monstrously unfair and unjust to Germany, so as a result, many in Britain like Thomas Jones were very open to Ribbentrop ’ s message that if only Versailles could be done away with, then European peace would be secured.

Ribbentrop regarded the Munich Agreement as a diplomatic defeat for Germany, as it deprived Germany of the opportunity to wage the war to destroy Czechoslovakia that Ribbentrop wanted to see ; the Sudetenland issue, which was the ostensible subject of the German-Czechoslovak dispute, had been just a pretext for German aggression.

The Z3, the first fully operational electromechanical computer, was partially financed by German government-supported DVL ( Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt, i. e. German Research Institute for Aviation ), which wanted their extensive calculations automated.

During the 19th century, after Schleswig-Holstein had come under the government of Prussia ( from 1871 the German Empire ) following the Second Schleswig War in 1864, a combination of naval interests — the German navy wanted to link its bases in the Baltic and the North Sea without the need to sail around Denmark — and commercial pressure encouraged the development of a new canal.

After the war, the League of Nations held the East Prussian plebiscite on 11 July 1920 to determine if the people of the southern districts of East Prussia wanted to remain within East Prussia or to join the Second Polish Republic. The German side terrorized the local population before the plebiscite using violence, Polish organisations and activists were harassed by German militias, and those actions included attacks and murder of Polish activists ; Masurs who supported voting for Poland were singled out and subjected to terror and repressions

The Soviet leadership believed that the West wanted to encourage German aggression in the East and that France and Britain might stay neutral in a war initiated by Germany, hoping that the warring states would wear each other out and put an end to both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.