* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian ( d. 1851 )

German historian Ernst Kornemann has had it in his Römische Geschichte vols., ed.

* 1994 – Golo Mann, German historian ( b. 1909 )

In his book, The Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser referred to the notion of ' Blitzkrieg ' as " a world wide delusion ".

In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.

Sociological historian Holger Herwig found in studying German explanations for the origins of World War I, " Those events that are most important are hardest to understand, because they attract the greatest attention from myth makers and charlatans.

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian ( d. 1895 )

* 2002 – Arno Peters, German historian ( b. 1916 )

* 1930 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian ( d. 2002 )

* 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian ( d. 1768 )

The noted German historian Friedrich Meinecke attempted to trace the roots of the expression in a June 11, 1922 article in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse.

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov wrote that German films of the 1950s showed the average German soldier as a heroic victim: noble, tough, brave, honourable, and patriotic while fighting hard in a senseless war for a regime that he did not care for.

* 1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer ( b. 1529 )

Some Catholics, mainly of German language and largely inspired by the historian Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( who did not formally join the new group ) formed the separate Old Catholic Church in protest.

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

Some like the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason have argued that the Second World War was a direct effect of the German economic system, which made expansionism necessary for domestic prosperity, indeed, survival ; and which made Jingoism necessary for the quelling of class conflicts.

According to German historian Jürgen Kocka ( 2010 ):

Explaining the internal impact of the DDR regime from the perspective of German history in the long term, historian Gerhard A. Ritter ( 2002 ) has argued that the East German state was defined by two dominant forces – Soviet Communism on the one hand, and German traditions filtered through the interwar experiences of German Communists on the other.

* 1983 – Christian Müller, German footballer

* 1985 – Christian Gentner, German footballer

* Georg Christian Lehms, Des israelitischen Printzens Absolons und seiner Prinzcessin Schwester Thamar Staats-Lebens-und Helden-Geschichte (' The Heroic Life and History of the Israelite Prince Absolom and his Princess Sister Tamar '), novel in German published in Nuremberg, 1710

* 1938 – Christian Müller, German footballer

* 1997 – Gerda Christian, German secretary ( b. 1913 )

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.

Christian Goldbach ( March 18, 1690 – November 20, 1764 ) was a German mathematician who also studied law.

* Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands, a German Christian educational institution

* 1960 – Christian Müller, German footballer

* 1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer ( d. 1836 )

* 1955 – Christian Sackewitz, German footballer

* 1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( b. 1715 )

* 1863 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer ( b. 1813 )

Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.

Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber ( born 28 September 1941 ) is a German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria and former chairman of the Christian Social Union ( CSU ).

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.

The German Protestant theologian Martin Luther saw a parallel between Paul and Christ in their work of reconciliation, which is also in fact contained within the concept of Christian Grace.

Engelbert Dollfuss ( in German: Engelbert Dollfuß ; October 4, 1892 – July 25, 1934 ) was an Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman.

Several of the powerful German companies backed Christian II, but he eventually lost.

The new King Christian III gave the German trader Thomas Köppen exclusive trading rates in the Faroes.

The FDP is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union ( Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ) in the German federal government.