* 1898 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot ( d. 1983 )

The Soviet Union assisted German air forces by allowing them to use signals broadcast by the Soviet radio station at Minsk allegedly " for urgent aeronautical experiments ".

* June 30 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer ( d. 2003 )

* February 24 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer ( d. 1983 )

Invented by the German physicist August Toepler in 1864 to study supersonic motion, it is widely used in aeronautical engineering to photograph the flow of air around objects.

Kurt Waldemar Tank ( February 24, 1898 – June 5, 1983 ) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945.

* Operation Lusty: US efforts to capture German aeronautical equipment, technology, and personnel.

* Operation Surgeon: British operation for denying German aeronautical expertise from the USSR, and for exploiting German scientists in furthering British research.

* June 30 – Ludwig Bölkow ( died 2003 ), German aeronautical engineer.

Heinrich Hertel ( 13 November 1901-1982 ) was a German aeronautical engineer.

Virtually every German aeronautical engineer and test pilot of note during the 1920s and 30s spent time building, testing, and flying aircraft at the Wasserkuppe, including the Günter brothers, Wolf Hirth, the Horten brothers, Robert Kronfeld, Hans Jacobs, Alexander Lippisch, Willy Messerschmitt, Hanna Reitsch, Peter Riedel, Alexander Schleicher and many, many others.

* June 26-Willy Messerschmitt ( died 1978 ), German aeronautical engineer.

In 1928 Freiherr Friedrich-Karl von Koenig-Warthausen made a solo flight to Moscow in a Klemm L. 20, then decided to keep on going, circumnavigating the world and earning himself the Hindenburg Cup, the highest German honour for aeronautical achievement.

* Alexander Baumann ( aeronautical engineer ) ( 1875 – 1928 ), German engineer

The story begins in 1944 and covers more than 30 years in the lives of four men and their families: Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who worked for the Nazis ; Norman Grant, a World War II hero turned U. S. Senator from a fictional state ; Stanley Mott, an aeronautical engineer invested with a top-secret U. S. government mission to rescue Kolff from Peenemünde ; and John Pope, a small-town boy turned Naval Aviator who becomes a test pilot and then astronaut.

War erupts when German aerial forces, built and supported by aeronautical parks and foundries, and consisting of airships and Drachenflieger, attempt to seize control of the air before the Americans build a large-scale aerial navy.

Allied air superiority became a significant hindrance to German operations during the later years of the war.

Early German successes enjoyed air superiority with unencumbered movement of ground forces, close air support, and aerial reconnaissance.

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

* Failing to engage the German battlecruiser squadron with all his ships, thus throwing away a two to one numerical superiority and instead fighting one-to-one.

During the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France, Luftwaffe fighters — primarily the Messerschmitt Bf 109 — held air superiority, and the Luftwaffe played a major role in German victories in these campaigns.

Additionally Britain's use of radar and the advantages of fighting above Britain's home territory allowed the RAF to deny Germany air superiority, saving the British Isles from German invasion and dealing the Axis their first major defeat of the Second World War.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

Japanese fascist Nakano Seigo advocated that Japan follow the Italian and German models, which were " a form of more democratic government going beyond democracy " which itself had " lost its spirit and decayed into a mechanism which insists only on numerical superiority without considering the essence of human beings.

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

Flying in reinforcements and winning air superiority, the Luftwaffe contributed decisively to the German conquest and expulsion of the Western Allies from Scandinavia.

Beginning in August 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of concentrated aerial attacks ( designated Unternehmen Adlerangriff or Operation Eagle Attack ) on targets throughout the United Kingdom in an attempt to destroy the RAF ( Royal Air Force ) and establish air superiority over Great Britain.

Five were sunk while evacuating Dunkirk despite large periods of German air superiority, thousands of sorties flown, and hundreds of tons of bombs dropped against them.

Since Forster's published descriptions of other nations were seen as impartial scientific observations, Forster's disparaging description of Poland in his letters and diaries was often taken at face value in Imperial and Nazi Germany, where it was used as a means of science-based support for a purported German superiority.

The French were unaware of their numerical superiority at the beginning of the battle as the German 2nd Army did not attack all at once.

Soviet conventional superiority, shown by the fact that the Soviet Union certainly was prepared for war in Europe, having massed armored, mechanized, artillery, and air forces poised along the Inner German and Czech borders, led by the dreaded Third Shock Army of the Soviet Union, caused NATO to consider the use of tactical nuclear weapons to stop the " steamroller " of the Red Army if they decided to take a drive through the Fulda Gap or an amble through the North German Plain.

In turn, such a redeployment would weaken the numerical superiority of the British Home Fleet over the German High Seas Fleet in the North Sea.

He also had doubts about Germany's ability to gain air superiority over the English Channel and the lack of regional German naval superiority.

The invasion of Britain was postponed indefinitely in September 1940 due to the Luftwaffe ′ s failure to obtain air superiority during the Battle of Britain, and the significantly greater power of the Royal Navy over the German Naval forces.

The Verdun lesson learnt, the Allies ' tactical aim became the achievement of air superiority and the German planes were, indeed, largely swept from the skies over the Somme.

Fitted with a developed version of this gear, the M. 5 became the Fokker Eindecker which, due to its revolutionary armament, became one of the most feared aircraft over the western front, its introduction leading to a period of German air superiority known as the Fokker Scourge until the balance was restored by aircraft such as the Nieuport 11 and Airco DH. 2.

In the face of Allied air superiority, the German air service was having difficulty acquiring vital reconnaissance information, and could do little to prevent Allied squadrons from completing effective reconnaissance and close support of their armies.

It is also significant that while Richthofen's early victories and the establishment of his reputation coincided with a period of German air superiority, many of his successes were achieved against a numerically superior enemy, who were flying fighter aircraft that were on the whole better than his own.

German destroyers also used innovative high-pressure steam machinery: while this should have helped their efficiency, it more often resulted in mechanical problems.

The Old English word is derived from the Proto-Germanic * albiz, which also resulted in Old Norse álfr and Middle High German elbe.

The Nazis, led by Hitler and the German war hero Erich Ludendorff, attempted a " March on Berlin " modeled upon the March on Rome, which resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in November 1923.

The war resulted in the Confederation being partially replaced by a North German Confederation in 1867 which included Prussia but excluded Austria and the South German states.

Under occupation by the Allies, German territories were split off, denazification took place, and the Cold War resulted in the division of the country into democratic West Germany and communist East Germany.

As his son, Frederick II, though already elected king, was still a small child and living in Sicily, German princes chose to elect an adult king, which resulted in the dual election of Frederick Barbarossa's youngest son Philip of Swabia and Henry the Lion's son Otto of Brunswick, who competed for the crown.

By 1842, a list of nine elements believed to be essential to plant growth had been compiled, and the discoveries of the German botanists Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop, in the years 1859-65, resulted in a development of the technique of soilless cultivation.

Thus, Alexander remained in command of the 15th Army Group, and, with the support of numerous allied commanders, controversially authorised the bombing of the historic abbey at Cassino, which resulted in little advance on the German Winter Line defences.

However, later archival work by the Soviet physicist German Goncharov has suggested that while Fuchs ' early work ( most of which is still classified in the United States, but copies of which were available to the Soviets ) did not aid the Soviets in their effort towards the hydrogen bomb, it was actually far closer to the final correct solution than was recognized at the time, and indeed spurred Soviet research into useful problems which eventually resulted in the correct answer.

The battle was a German attack by Sepp Dietrich's 6th Panzer Army between 6 March and 16 March 1945, and in the end, resulted in a Red Army victory.

The former church had resulted from mergers of several groups of German Methodist heritage.

During the period of German Empire the Germanisation policies in Masuria became more effective ; children using Polish in playgrounds and classrooms were widely punished by corporal punishment, authorities tried to appoint Protestant pastors who would use German instead of Polish which resulted in protests of local population.

In the summer of 1940, fear of the Soviet Union, in conjunction with German support for the territorial demands of Romania's neighbors and the Romanian government's own miscalculations, resulted in more territorial losses for Romania.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union resulted in the substantial realignment of multiple Soviet policies.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union ultimately resulted in 95 % of all German Army casualties from 1941 to 1944 and 65 % of all Allied military casualties accumulated throughout the war.

However, the plans resulted in an outcry from the German minority population of Opolskie, who feared that should their region be abolished, they would lose all hope of regional representation ( in the proposed Silesian Region, they would have formed a very small minority amongst a great number of ethnic Poles ).

Landflucht resulted in a major transformation of the German countryside and agriculture.

* Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) resulted in the collapse of the Second French Empire and in the formation of both the French Third Republic and the German Empire.

Durkheim's period in Germany resulted in the publication of numerous articles on German social science and philosophy ; Durkheim was particularly impressed by the work of Wilhelm Wundt.

The combination of Montgomery being given priority for supplies, and diversion of resources to moving the Communications Zone, resulted in the Third Army running out of gas in Alsace-Lorraine while exploiting German weakness.

The US 80th Infantry Division captured Kassel in bitter house-to-house fighting during 2 – 4 April 1945, which included numerous German panzer-grenadier counterattacks, and resulted in further widespread devastation to bombed and unbombed structures alike.

In 1970, there was a first state reform, which resulted in the establishment of three cultural communities: the Dutch Cultural Community, the French Cultural Community and the German Cultural Community.