* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1902 – Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor ( d. 1988 )

* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

* 1896 – Otto Lilienthal, German engineer and aviation pioneer ( b. 1848 )

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

Pic 01. jpg | Arsenal of ancient mechanical artillery in the Saalburg, Germany ; left: polybolos reconstruction by the German engineer Erwin Schramm ( 1856-1935 )

The rapid adoption of the compound crank can be traced in the works of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars, an unknown German engineer writing on the state of the military technology of his day: first, the connecting-rod, applied to cranks, reappeared, second, double compound cranks also began to be equipped with connecting-rods and third, the flywheel was employed for these cranks to get them over the ' dead-spot '.

* 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer ( b. 1909 )

* 1911 – Hans von Ohain, German / American aerospace engineer ( d. 1998 )

* 1816 – Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist ( d. 1892 )

Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I.

The German physicist Ernst Ruska and the electrical engineer Max Knoll constructed the prototype electron microscope in 1931, capable of four-hundred-power magnification ; the apparatus was a practical application of the principles of electron microscopy.

The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent with Anthony Fokker who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs with cantilever wings: the strictly experimental Junkers J 2 private-venture aircraft, made with steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D. I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915.

* 1898 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot ( d. 1983 )

Soviet engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov quickly adapted the German concept, using a less-powerful 7. 62 × 39mm cartridge derived from the standard 7. 62 × 54mmR Russian battle rifle round, to produce the AK-47, which has become the world's most widely used assault rifle.

The shafts in the Queen's Chamber were explored in 1992 by the German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink using a crawler robot of his own design which he called " Upuaut 2 ".

He believed that he could engineer the German populace, for example, through eugenics, to be Nordic in appearance within several decades of the end of the war.

German engineer Hanns von Schertel worked on hydrofoils prior to and during World War II in Germany.

Early developments of the integrated circuit go back to 1949, when the German engineer Werner Jacobi ( Siemens AG ) filed a patent for an integrated-circuit-like semiconductor amplifying device showing five transistors on a common substrate in a 2-stage amplifier arrangement.

* 1910 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer and inventor, invented the Z3 computer ( d. 1995 )

* 1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer ( d. 1913 )

* 1909 – Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart ( d. 1999 )

* 1899 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer ( d. 1968 )

Konrad Zuse (; 1910 – 1995 ) was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer.

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

* 1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist ( d. 1985 )

* 1987 – The U. S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny () is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

* 1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor ( d. 1994 )

* 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician ( d. 1934 )

The day before Hilbert pronounced these phrases at the 1930 annual meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, Kurt Gödel — in a roundtable discussion during the Conference on Epistemology held jointly with the Society meetings — tentatively announced the first expression of his incompleteness theorem.

Charges of a Jewish conspirational element in Germany's defeat drew heavily upon figures like Kurt Eisner, a Berlin-born German Jew who lived in Munich.

* 1935 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist ( b. 1890 )

* 1919 – Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated.

The focus is put on the classical modernist art with the collection of Kurt Schwitters, works of German expressionism, and French cubism, the cabinet of abstracts, the graphics and the department of photography and media.

* 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1927 – Kurt Masur, German conductor

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

Kurt Georg Kiesinger (; 6 April 1904 – 9 March 1988 ) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

* 1908 – Kurt Böhme, German bass ( d. 1989 )

* 1897 – Kurt Gerron, German director ( d. 1944 )

* 1900 – Kurt Weill, German composer ( d. 1950 )

* 1955 – Kurt Niedermayer, German footballer

Other composers who made individual contributions to German opera in the early 20th century include Zemlinsky, Korngold, Schreker, Hindemith, Kurt Weill and the Italian-born Ferruccio Busoni.

* 1912 – Kurt Lotz, German businessman ( d. 2005 )

* 1912 – Kurt Sanderling, German conductor ( d. 2011 )

The Threepenny Opera () is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher.

The project was based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, with Wilson responsible for the design and direction, Burroughs for writing the book, and Waits for music and lyrics, which were heavily influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.