Hildegard communicated with popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and other notable figures such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who advanced her work, at the behest of her abbot, Kuno, at the Synod of Trier in 1147 and 1148.

The Lombard Princes Landulf IV of Benevento and Pandulf II of Salerno, German Bishop Henry I of Augsburg, German Margrave Gunther of Merseburg, the Abbot of Fulda, and numerous other Imperial officials were among the battle's casualties.

German engineers have also devoted special attention to the measurement of the flow in rivers ; the Beiträge zur Hydrographie des Königreiches Bohmen ( Prague, 1872 – 1875 ) of AR Harlacher contained valuable measurements of this kind, together with a comparison of the experimental results with the formulae of flow that had been proposed up to the date of its publication, and important data were yielded by the gaugings of the Mississippi made for the United States government by AA Humphreys and HL Abbot, by Robert Gordon's gaugings of the Ayeyarwady River, and by Allen JC Cunningham's experiments on the Ganges canal.

The German historians, from Berthold's contemporary, Abbot Hermann of Niederaltaich, down to the middle of the sixteenth century, speak in the most glowing terms of the force of his personality and the effect of his preaching, which is said to have attracted almost incredible numbers, so that the churches could not hold them ; and he was forced to speak from a platform or a tree in the open air.

Following the recommendations of Romano Guardini and the Benedictines of Maria Laach Abbey under Abbot Ildefons Herwegen, the Augustinian canon Pius Parsch of Klosterneuburg Monastery celebrated so-called " Community Masses " ( Gemeinschaftsmessen ) in the Church of St. Gertrude ( Klosterneuburg ) in 1922, in which parts of the Mass were sung by the people in the German language.

During the winter of 1940 – 1941, the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( 1906 – 1945 ) spent some months at the monastery as the friend and guest of the Abbot.

In common with most other German Benedictine houses, Laach declined during the 14th century in terms of its spiritual and monastic life, a tendency which was reversed only in the late 15th century, under the influence of the reforming Bursfelde Congregation, which the abbey joined, supported against a certain resistance within the abbey by Abbot Johannes V von Deidesheim ( 1469 – 1491 ).

* Thule Society, a German occultist group and forerunner of the Nazi Party

The Thule Society (; ), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (" Study Group for Germanic Antiquity "), was a German occultist and völkisch group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend.

The album features several musical guests, including Imani Coppola and Ruby Friedman, as well as spoken word contributions by British occultist Aleister Crowley and German psychologist Carl Jung

Johannes Trithemius ( 1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516 ), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German abbot, lexicographer, historian, cryptographer, polymath and occultist who had an influence on later occultism.

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List ( October 5, 1848 – May 17, 1919 ) was an Austrian / German ( Viennese ) poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and völkisch author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic revivalism, Germanic mysticism, Runic Revivalism and Runosophy in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and continues to be so today.

He was an important figure in the activities of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German occultist organization that influenced many members of the NSDAP.

Jan Fries is a German occultist freestyle shaman.

It succeeded the " Collegium Pansophicum, Orient Berlin " ( Pansophia Lodge ), a Rosicrucian magical order founded by Heinrich Traenker, a notable German occultist of the time.

Albin Grau ( December 22, 1884-March 27, 1971 ) was a German artist, architect and occultist, and the producer and production designer for F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu.

Eckart, the wealthy publisher of the newspaper Auf gut Deutsch ( In Plain German ), has been represented as a committed occultist and the most significant Thule influence on Hitler.

The Guido von List Society was re-established in the late 1960s through contacts between the German / Austrian occultist Adolf Schleipfer ( 1947 –) and the still living last president of the Society, Hanns Bierbach.

Tryon ’ s ideas on historical and philosophical matters were heavily influenced by ancient Pythagoreanism, Hinduism, and the teachings of German occultist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.

Franz Hartmann ( 22 November 1838, Donauwörth-7 August 1912, Kempten im Allgäu ) was a German physician, theosophist, occultist, geomancer, astrologer, and author.

German historian Michael Rissmann argues that Cornish overestimates Hitler's intellectual capacities and uses fraudulent talks Hermann Rauschning claims to have had with Hitler to prove Hitler's alleged occultist interest.

* 1516 – Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer ( b. 1462 )

* February 1 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer ( d. 1516 )

* December 13 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer ( b. 1462 )

The Battle of Świecino ( named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland ) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years ' War.

Tilman Riemenschneider was born between 1459 and 1462 in Heiligenstadt im Eichsfeld in the German province of Thuringia.

Of special importance in supporting this are: a baptizing formula ( Unte paghesont premenit Atit et Birit et spertit senit ) of 1462, written in Albanian within a text in Latin by the bishop of Durrës, Pal Engjëlli ; a glossary with Albanian words of 1497 by Arnhold von Harff, a German who had travelled through Albania, and a 15th century fragment from the Bible from the Gospel of Matthew, also in Albanian, but in Greek letters.

The first of many editions printed using movable type was printed in German, in Bamberg in about 1462 by Albrecht Pfister ; there were about eighteen incunabulum editions.

Words primarily used in Austria are Jänner ( January ) rather than Januar, heuer ( this year ) rather than dieses Jahr, Stiege ( stairs ) instead of Treppe, Rauchfang ( chimney ) instead of Schornstein, many administrative, legal and political terms – and a whole series of foods and vegetables such as: Erdäpfel ( potatoes ) German Kartoffeln ( but Dutch Aardappel ), Schlagobers ( whipped cream ) German Schlagsahne, Faschiertes ( ground beef ) German Hackfleisch, Fisolen ( green beans ) German Gartenbohne ( but Czech fazole and Italian fagioli ), Karfiol ( cauliflower ) German Blumenkohl ( but Italian cavolfiore ), Kohlsprossen ( Brussels sprouts ) German Rosenkohl, Marillen ( apricots ) German Aprikosen but Slovak marhuľa, Paradeiser ( tomatoes ) German Tomaten, Palatschinken ( pancakes ) German Pfannkuchen ( but Czech palačinky ), Topfen ( a semi-sweet cottage cheese ) German Quark and Kren ( horseradish ) German Meerrettich ( but Czech křen ).

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1722 )

* 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker ( d. 1853 )

* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )

* 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist ( d. 1920 )

* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

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

* 1904 – Kurt Kiesinger, German politician ( d. 1988 )

* 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver ( d. 1987 )

* 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 1929 – André Previn, German composer and conductor

* 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1941 – Hans W. Geissendörfer, German director