* 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.

Hermann Göring had promised the Luftwaffe would complete the destruction of the encircled armies, but aerial operations did not prevent the evacuation of the majority of Allied troops ( which the British named Operation Dynamo ); some 330, 000 French and British were saved.

Hermann Göring had consistently stated the task of the Four Year Plan was to rearm Germany for total 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.

Their pre-war economic policies, resembling Keynesianism, were in the beginning the brainchildren of their non-Nazi Minister of Economics, Hjalmar Schacht, who was later made to focus more on war production ( cf: Military Keynesianism ), and was eventually replaced by a Nazi, Hermann Göring.

For Prussia, which constituted the bulk of Germany in any event, Hitler reserved these rights for himself and delegated them to Prussian minister-president Hermann Göring.

Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring at the meeting to formally hand over control of the Gestapo ( Berlin, 1934 ).

As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring — future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official — was named Interior Minister of Prussia.

Gestapo members Hermann Göring and Arthur Seyss-Inquart were individually convicted.

On January 1933, Hermann Göring, Hitler's minister without portfolio, was appointed the head of the Prussian Police and began filling the political and intelligence units of the Prussian Secret Police with Nazi Party members.

At a press conference held later the same day, Hermann Göring was asked by foreign correspondents to respond to a hot rumour that General von Schleicher had been murdered in his home.

Some of the leaders of the Nazi regime ( left to right ): Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess

Hindenburg appointed Hermann Göring appointed as minister without portfolio, Minister of the Interior for Prussia, and Reich Commissioner of Aviation, and named Wilhelm Frick as Reich Interior Minister.

By the mid-1930s, Hitler ’ s most powerful subordinates were Hermann Göring, as head of the Four Year Plan for crash rearmament, and Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and police apparatus.

With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the " final solution to the Jewish question " in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring ’ s position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.

Adenauer was imprisoned for two days after the Night of the Long Knives on the 30th June 1934, but already on the 10th of August 1934, maneuvering for his pension, he wrote a 10-page letter to Hermann Göring ( the Prussian interior minister ) stating among other things that as a mayor he had even violated Prussian laws in order to allow NSDAP events in public buildings and Nazi flags to be flown from city flagpoles, and added that in 1932 he had declared publicly that the Nazis should join the Reich government in a leading role.

The air war on the Western Front received the most attention in the annals of military aviation, since it produced aces such as Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the Red Baron, Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, Oswald Boelcke, Werner Voss, and Max Immelmann ( the first airman to win the Pour le Mérite, Imperial Germany's highest decoration for gallantry, as a result of which the decoration became popularly known as the Blue Max ).

Hermann Göring.

The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring ( at the left edge on the first row of benches ), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich | Third Reich after Adolf Hitler | Hitler's death.

The first was Hermann Göring, the second was Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim as the second ( and last ) commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, concomitant with his promotion to Generalfeldmarschall, the last German officer in World War II to be promoted to the highest rank.

From 1943, the Luftwaffe also had an armoured paratroop division called Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring, which was expanded to a Panzerkorps in 1944.

* 1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the " Jewish homeland ", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

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This task was left to the General Staff, so actually the most important man in the Army ( and the Navy, but less so in the Luftwaffe, which was commanded by Hermann Göring ) was the Chief of the General Staff ( Chef des Generalstabs des Heeres ).

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

During the World War II Occupation of Czechoslovakia, the Škoda works was turned into part of Reichswerke Hermann Göring serving the German World War II effort.

** The Reichstag passes a statement stating that Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring should be appointed as Hitler, s succesor as Führer should Hitler die in the middle of the Second World War. Rudolf Hess is to be appointed in Göring, s place should anything befall Göring.

During 1933, while at the Office of the Inspector of Naval Material in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rickover translated Das Unterseeboot ( The Submarine ) by World War I German Imperial Navy Admiral Hermann Bauer.

Hermann Zapf was born in Nuremberg during turbulent times marked by the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 in Munich and Berlin, the end of World War I, the exile of Kaiser Wilhelm, and the establishment of Bavaria as a free state by Kurt Eisner.

Several prominent German military, cultural, and political figures in subsequent history, including poet Theodor Fontane, General Hermann von François, the hero of the First World War Battle of Tannenberg, Luftwaffe General and fighter ace Adolf Galland ; and famed U-boat captain Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, trace their ancestry to the Huguenot refugees from France.

At the beginning of the First World War, patriotic sentiment was widespread, and extended to many German and Austrian Jews: Zweig, as well as Martin Buber and Hermann Cohen, all showed support.

His series of mysteries set in Occupied France during World War II, and featuring Chief Inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Sûreté and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo, are his most popular works and have been critically acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal, amongst others, for their historical accuracy.

After World War I, the thoughts of Rudolf Kjellén and Ratzel were picked up and extended by a number of German authors such as Karl Haushofer ( 1869 – 1946 ), Erich Obst, Hermann Lautensach and Otto Maull.

After World War II Dr. Kurt Eissler ( 1909 – 1999 ) and a small group of psychoanalysts who knew Sigmund Freud personally, including Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, Bertram Lewin and Hermann Nunberg, decided to preserve Freud's letters and papers in a single archive.

Haber's son from his first marriage, Hermann, emigrated to the United States during World War II.

They attended the World Exposition of Shooting at Berlin, hosted by Hermann Göring.

In 1929 the Stahlhelm supported the " Peoples ' Initiative " of DNVP leader Alfred Hugenberg and the Nazis to initiate a German referendum against the Young Plan on World War I reparations in order to overthrow the government of Chancellor Hermann Müller.

Hermann von François ( January 31, 1856 – May 15, 1933 ) was a German General der Infanterie during World War I, and is best known for his key role in several German victories on the Eastern Front in 1914.

His mother, Rosa, was Swiss, but his father, Hermann, had become stateless after World War I and had to apply for the Swiss citizenship of Frank and his older brother, Manfred.

World War II terms were used for names in Star Wars ; examples include the planets Kessel ( a term that refers to a group of encircled forces ), a Chancellor as the leader, and Hoth ( Hermann Hoth was a German general ).

During World War II, while working with Hermann Irving Schlesinger, Brown discovered a method for producing sodium borohydride ( NaBH < sub > 4 </ sub >), which can be used to produce boranes, compounds of boron and hydrogen.

Hermann Maier of Austria is widely regarded as the greatest super G skier to date, with 24 World Cup victories, five World Cup titles, a World Championship, and an Olympic gold medal.

The Werkbund was founded in 1907 in Munich at the instigation of Hermann Muthesius, existed through 1934, then re-established after World War II in 1950.

He also replaced Hermann Heller as professor at the University of Berlin ( a position he held until the end of World War II ).