An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

He died 12 September 1500, and was succeeded in his German territories by George as the head of the Albertine line, while George's brother Heinrich became hereditary governor of Friesland.

Wilhelm Solf, German governor of Samoa 1900-1910

In 1891, the German government took over direct administration of the territory from the German East Africa Company and appointed a governor with headquarters at Dar es Salaam.

* November 4 – Dietrich von Choltitz, Nazi German military governor of Paris in World War II ( b. 1894 )

The territories were not annexed by any state of the Empire or organised into a separate state, but were governed as the Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen under a governor directly appointed by the German Emperor, without any parliamentary representation.

The German civil governor, Baron von der Lancken, is known to have stated that Cavell should be pardoned because of her complete honesty and because she had helped save so many lives, German as well as Allied.

Cavell was provided with a defender approved by the German military governor.

In 1894 major Theodor Leutwein was appointed governor of German South-West Africa.

Numerous reports from Ottoman officials, such as a parliament deputy, the governor of Allepo as well as the German consul in Van, suggested that deliberate provocations against the Armenians were being orchestrated by the local government.

On September 26 Maj. Gen. Kurt Eberhard, the military governor, and SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, the SS and Police Leader at Rear Headquarters Army Group South, made the decision to exterminate the Jews of Kiev, claiming that it was in retaliation for guerrilla attacks against German troops.

The German governor, General Walter Braemer, ( the commander of the rear army area ), ordered the execution of 80 Polish hostages over the next few days.

In the spring of 1776, 10, 000 British and German troops arrived in Quebec, and General Guy Carleton, the provincial governor, drove the Continental Army out of Quebec and back to Fort Ticonderoga.

John Lederer, a German physician and explorer employed by Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia, is believed to be the first European to set foot in present-day Mineral County.

In 1670, John Lederer, a German physician and explorer employed by Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia, became the first European to set foot in present-day Berkeley County ; their safety was not guaranteed.

The Vailima estate was purchased in 1900 as official residence for the German governor and, after British / Dominion confiscation, served successively as residence for the New Zealand administrator and for the Samoan head of state after independence.

This etymology is perfectly parallel, though unrelated, to that of equivalent Germanic titles and terms like the Old English heretoga and the German Herzog, which in feudal times was equated with the Latin dux ( originally a term for either a barbaric war leader or a Roman commanding officer and / or military governor, which later evolved into such feudal and modern titles of peerage rank as duke ).

On 25 August 1944, the German military governor of Paris, General von Choltitz, surrendered his garrison to the French General Philippe Leclerc at the old station, after disobeying Adolf Hitler's direct order to destroy the city ( see Liberation of Paris ).

With the aid of the Graf von Götzen ( named after Count Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen, the former governor of German East Africa ), the Germans had complete control of the lake in the early stages of the war.

Nevertheless, the German forces were close to achieving a breakthrough against Maunoury's beleaguered Sixth Army between 6 and 8 September — the Sixth Army was aided on 7 September by 10, 000 French reserve infantry troops ferried from Paris, 6, 000 of whom were transported in 600 Parisian taxi cabs sent by General Joseph Gallieni, military governor of Paris.

During World War I, its governor, Count Hans von Blumenthal, was one of a small number of German military officials who struck up a rapport with the local population, chiefly through his interest in hunting.

Austria became the German province of Ostmark, with Seyss-Inquart as governor.

In mid July 1918 LSR tried to incite an uprising in areas ceded to Germany by Brest-Litovsk Treaty, so their supporters were involved in the assassination of German ambassador Graf von Mirbach in Moscow, Russian SFSR, on July 6, and Field Marshal von Eichhorn, commander of Army Group Kiev and military governor of Ukraine, on July 30.

** 4 June 1892-November 1893 Jesko von Puttkamer ( 2nd time ); the same stayed on as the first of two Landeshauptleute (' Land captains '), till 13 August 1895 ; the second ( 18 November 1895-18 April 1898 August Köhler, b. 1858-d. 1902 ) was also the first of the Governors ( since 1 January 1905 as German colony of Togoland, till the British conquered it August 1914 )

Jesko Von Pultkamer became governor of German Kamerun in 1895.

The city still has a handful of colonial era buildings, notably the palatial former residence of the German governor, Jesko von Puttkamer.

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

* 1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician ( d. 1939 )

* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )

* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )

* 1700 – Heinrich von Brühl, German statesman ( d. 1763 )

* 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer ( d. 1894 )

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany | German artist known for his works of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, visual arts, and science.

* 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist ( b. 1763 )

* 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.

* 1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal ( d. 1954 )

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

* 1840 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist ( d. 1902 )

* Adrian von Mynsicht ( 1603 – 1638 ), German alchemist

* 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.

* 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

* 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist ( d. 1832 )

* 1794 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( d. 1868 )

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

Carl Maria von Weber, a relative of Mozart by marriage whom Wagner has characterized as the most German of German composers, is said to have refused to join Ludlams-Höhle, a social club of which Salieri was a member and avoided having anything to do with him.

* 1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer ( d. 1553 )

* 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

* 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot ( b. 1892 )