Led by Kurt Schumacher after World War II, the SPD initially opposed both the social market economy and Konrad Adenauer's drive towards western integration fiercely, but after Schumacher's death, it accepted the social market economy and Germany's position in the Western alliance in order to appeal to a broader range of voters.

After World War II he became a leader of the SPD in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany and, fiercely opposed by chairman Kurt Schumacher, led his party into a merger with the Communist Party under Wilhelm Pieck.

The race was wet and Villeneuve dropped down to fifth place, while his championship rival, Michael Schumacher, won the race by starting an intermediate tyres ( as opposed to full wet ).

The team had a continuous presence at the top of the professional peloton and continued to sign the emerging German cyclists of the times with Andreas Klöden in 1998, Jörg Jaksche in 1999, Matthias Kessler in 2000 and Stefan Schumacher in 2002 to name but a few.

The German pitted on lap 24, while Häkkinen stayed out until lap 28, emerging from his stop ahead of Schumacher albeit by less than a second.

Qualifying was a surprise with Rubens Barrichello on pole position, with Heinz-Harald Frentzen second, Häkkinen third, Coulthard fourth, Michael Schumacher down in fifth and emerging Williams driver Jenson Button a surprising sixth in his first British Grand Prix.

Nevertheless, when Schumacher needed a new engine costing 800 DM, his parents were unable to afford it ; Michael was able to continue racing with support from local businessmen.

While Williams continued to dominate F1 in 1993, Patrese found it difficult to live with his new team-mate Michael Schumacher and before the end of the season Benetton informed Patrese that he was " free to seek an alternate drive ".

It was not until the introduction of the new Cosworth unit, badged as a Ford Zetec-R, that Michael Schumacher won the Drivers World Championship with Benetton, in 1994.

Following the retirement of Michael Schumacher and his new deal with Ferrari, Räikkönen was estimated to be the highest paid driver in F1, with a base salary reportedly worth US $ 51M annually.

Heuss ' plans for a new national anthem were aborted by Adenauer, who – in rare accordance with Kurt Schumacher – had the third stanza of the old Deutschlandlied established in 1952.

On 1 October, Schumacher announced that he would be leaving Toyota at the end of the 2007 season for a new challenge.

Schumacher wanted a new constitution with a strong national presidency, confident that he would occupy that post.

Schumacher refused to give way on this, and eventually the Allies, keen to get the new German state functioning in the face of the Soviet challenge, conceded some of what Schumacher wanted.

In 2010, Ross Brawn ( of Formula One's Mercedes GP ) introduced the new cars for that season as the new Silver Arrows, with Germans Nico Rosberg and 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher driving.

Schumacher was forced to pit for a new nosecone and after serving a drive-through penalty for the incident, dropped to the rear of the field.

On October 2006, 3 days after the end of the Formula One season and following the retirement of Michael Schumacher, he took up a new post as a Special Advisor for the Scuderia Ferrari.

On 1 October, Schumacher announced that he would be leaving Toyota at the end of the 2007 season for a new challenge, having not been offered a new contract.

Schumacher appeared slower than Trulli in the first few races of the 2005 season, as the latter hit the headlines as he took Toyota to new heights.

On 1 October, Schumacher announced that he would be leaving Toyota at the end of the 2007 season for a new challenge, although at the time, he did not clearly state what this challenge would be.

While Schumacher left the team, Trulli's new team-mate was the reigning GP2 Champion Timo Glock.

Schumacher won from new World Champion Prost, Hill, Alesi, Wendlinger and Brundle.

It was also noted that overtaking into the new chicane was banned, although the length of the ban was unclear, with Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill unclear whether the drivers were not allowed to overtake into the chicane for just the first lap, or for every lap.

Coulthard made his second and final stop for new tyres on lap 49 ; exiting 14 seconds behind Schumacher, who continued to extend the margin between the two.

The Jordan team had two new drivers in Giancarlo Fisichella the Italian youngster from Minardi and had signed Ralf Schumacher brother of Michael in an interesting line up.

He pitted for a new one and rejoined just in front of Schumacher.

Schumacher had taken on a new set of tyres and was under no pressure from Häkkinen in third, keeping the gap from 1. 2-1. 5 seconds although he lost a tenth or two to Coulthard who was 10 seconds ahead.

The estate comprises various schools, colleges and charitable and commercial organisations, including Schumacher College, The Arts at Dartington, the Dartington International Summer School of music, Research in Practice, Dartington School for Social Entrepreneurs and the Shops at Dartington ( formerly the Cider Press Centre ).

The Schumacher Circle is a family of organisations which were founded in E. F. Schumacher's memory or were inspired by his work, and which cooperate to support each other.

* Schumacher Circle organisations

From 1984 on, Schumacher won many German and European kart championships.

Villeneuve was seen driving a VW before stopping and saying at the camera that he has nothing against German guys ... much less for the " allemandes ", referring to the vehicle and German girls — a reference to his rivalry with Michael Schumacher and for the incident at the 1997 European Grand Prix.

Although Losi and Associated were close rivals in the USA, Schumacher off-road models continued to be popular amongst European hobbyists.

The ninth round of the season was the European Grand Prix and Montoya held pole for most of qualifying only for both Michael and Ralf Schumacher to bump him down to third in the final seconds.

Following the success of Schumacher, this went on to become the venue for a second annual F1 race in Germany, the European Grand Prix or Luxembourg Grand Prix since 1995.

After having a wheel-to-wheel dispute with Kimi Räikkönen, Michael Schumacher was forced onto the grass, consequently losing his right deflector, which despite not having great overall impact on the car's aerodynamics, barred him from closing on Räikkönen again and made him miss the podium for the first time since the 2001 Italian Grand Prix and the first time Ferrari missed out on a podium since the 1999 European Grand Prix.

Events at the 1997 European Grand Prix, where Schumacher was found guilty of deliberately ( though unsuccessfully ) colliding with Jacques Villeneuve's Williams in order to eliminate him from the title, led many to reconsider the 1994 event more harshly.

The new European Grand Prix at Donington Park was next and the Williams were 1 – 2 in qualifying with Prost on pole ahead of Hill, Schumacher, Senna, Wendlinger and Andretti.

In addition to his racing duties, Badoer was one of the active test and reserve drivers for Ferrari from 1998 to 2010 and in 2009 stood in for Ferrari's regular race driver Felipe Massa at the European Grand Prix and the Belgian Grand Prix, after the Brazilian was injured during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix and his original replacement, Michael Schumacher, pulled out due to injury.

During the 1997 European Grand Prix, Fontana had gained attention for apparently blocking Jacques Villeneuve to let rival Michael Schumacher pull away from the Canadian.

From 1987 – 88 onwards, he became the side's undisputed starter ( as successor of Harald Schumacher ), being voted as Best European Goalkeeper in 1991.

Schumacher and Myers delivered related papers at the annual conference of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, held in Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 20-25, 1993.