* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

* 1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.

* 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.

At the beginning of July, the governments of both German states decided on the schedule: elections in the GDR would be held on October 14, and a common election for the entire country on 2 December.

After some success at state-level elections, the party won 27 seats with 5. 7 % of the vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, in the 1983 federal election.

Partly due to the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and acid rain to German forests (" Waldsterben "), the Greens increased their share of the vote to 8. 3 % in the 1987 federal election.

It was only due to a temporary modification of German election law, applying the five-percent " hurdle " separately in East and West Germany, that the Greens acquired any parliamentary seats at all.

A bicycle-taxi ( velotaxi ) in front of the German Bundestag in Berlin with the Alliance ' 90 / The Greens livery for the German federal election, 2005 | 2005 federal election.

Map showing Alliance 90 / The Greens vote in each of the German constituencies at the German federal election, 2005

Map showing Alliance 90 / The Greens vote in each of the German constituencies at the German federal election, 2009

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.

Because the election of a three-year-old boy to be German king appeared likely to make orderly rule difficult, the boy's uncle, Duke Philip of Swabia, brother of late Henry VI, was designated to serve in his place.

Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.

Although never Emperor, Henry I the Fowler, Duke of Saxony, was arguably the founder of this imperial dynasty, since his election as German king in 919 made it possible for his son, Otto the Great to take on the imperium.

In the 2005 federal election the Left Party received 8. 7 % of the nationwide vote and won 54 seats in the German Bundestag.

Both politicians will co-chair the Left's caucus in the German Bundestag after the election.

Besides Lafontaine, a number of other prominent SPD defectors won election to the Bundestag on the Left Party list, including a prominent leader of Germany's Turkish minority, Hakkı Keskin, German Federal Constitutional Court justice Wolfgang Neskovic, and the former SPD leader in Baden-Württemberg, Ulrich Maurer.

* 1912 – Erich Honecker, German politician ( d. 1994 )

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

* 1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer ( d. 1954 )

Finally, in the German Imperial War Council of 8 December 1912 the consensus was that Germany would not be ready for war until at least mid-1914 and passed notes to that effect to the Habsburgs.

The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single landmass before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations was first presented by Alfred Wegener to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912.

Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.

* 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

In 1912 at the request of the German Society of Psychiatry, he began plans to establish a centre for research.

* 1912 – Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1945 )

* 1834 – Felix Dahn, German author ( d. 1912 )

German psychologist William Stern proposed a method of scoring children's intelligence tests in 1912.

* 1912 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist ( d. 1988 )

* 1850 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist ( d. 1912 )

* 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.

* 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor, composer ( d. 2002 )

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by the German immigrant Rudolph Dirks and drawn by Harold H. Knerr for 37 years ( 1912 to 1949 ).

Konrad Emil Bloch ForMemRS ( b. January 21, 1912 – October 15, 2000 ) was a German American biochemist.

Three light cruisers commenced construction in German yards in 1912 – 1913 ordered by the Russian Navy, costing around 9 million GM.

He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and to progressive German culture, working alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

The foundation of the University of Leipzig in 1409 initiated the city's development into a centre of German law and the publishing industry, and towards being the location of the Reichsgericht ( Imperial Court of Justice ), and the German National Library ( founded in 1912 ).

* 1912 – Axel Springer, German journalist and publisher, founded Axel Springer AG ( d. 1985 )

* 1912 – Erich Bagge, German physicist ( d. 1996 )

The son of an immigrant German brewer and a Paraguayan woman, Stroessner was born in Encarnación in 1912.

Even the Reichstag itself, the German Parliament, occupied the former home of the family of composer Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 47 ) in Leipziger Straße before moving in 1894 to the vast new edifice near the Brandenburg Gate, erected by Paul Wallot ( 1841 – 1912 ).