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

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian ( d. 1851 )

German historian Ernst Kornemann has had it in his Römische Geschichte vols., ed.

* 1994 – Golo Mann, German historian ( b. 1909 )

In his book, The Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser referred to the notion of ' Blitzkrieg ' as " a world wide delusion ".

In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.

Sociological historian Holger Herwig found in studying German explanations for the origins of World War I, " Those events that are most important are hardest to understand, because they attract the greatest attention from myth makers and charlatans.

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian ( d. 1895 )

* 2002 – Arno Peters, German historian ( b. 1916 )

* 1930 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian ( d. 2002 )

* 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian ( d. 1768 )

The noted German historian Friedrich Meinecke attempted to trace the roots of the expression in a June 11, 1922 article in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse.

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov wrote that German films of the 1950s showed the average German soldier as a heroic victim: noble, tough, brave, honourable, and patriotic while fighting hard in a senseless war for a regime that he did not care for.

* 1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer ( b. 1529 )

Some Catholics, mainly of German language and largely inspired by the historian Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( who did not formally join the new group ) formed the separate Old Catholic Church in protest.

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

Some like the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason have argued that the Second World War was a direct effect of the German economic system, which made expansionism necessary for domestic prosperity, indeed, survival ; and which made Jingoism necessary for the quelling of class conflicts.

According to German historian Jürgen Kocka ( 2010 ):

Explaining the internal impact of the DDR regime from the perspective of German history in the long term, historian Gerhard A. Ritter ( 2002 ) has argued that the East German state was defined by two dominant forces – Soviet Communism on the one hand, and German traditions filtered through the interwar experiences of German Communists on the other.

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

* 1978 – Robert Mohr, German rugby player

* 1979 – Robert Hoyzer, German football referee

* Robert Bunsen ( 1811 – 1899 ), German chemist, after whom is named:

Two German chemists, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, discovered caesium in 1860 by the newly developed method of flame spectroscopy.

* 1843 – Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1910 )

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

Other translations include Erich Prokosch's nearly complete German translations of the tenth volume, the 2004 introductory work entitled The World of Evliya Çelebi: An Ottoman Mentality written by University of Chicago professor Robert Dankoff, and Dankoff and Sooyong Kim's 2010 translation of select excerpts of the ten volumes An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi.

An interesting German example from a few years later is Robert Reinert's Opium ( 1919 ), which has some notable innovations in the use of Insert shots to help convey the sensation of the drug reveries.

* 1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher ( d. 1906 )

* 1920 – The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premièred in Berlin.

* 1960 – Robert Jaspert, German football manager

During World War II, he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey, and Nevill Mott ; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against German minesweepers.

Other large German companies include: Robert Bosch, ThyssenKrupp, and MAN ( diversified industrials ); Bayer and Merck ( pharmaceuticals ); Adidas and Puma ( clothing and footwear ); Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank ( banking and finance ); Aldi, Lidl and Edeka ( retail ); SAP ( computer software ); Infineon ( semiconductors ); Henkel ( household and personal consumer products ); Deutsche Post ( logistics ); and Hugo Boss ( luxury goods ).

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910 ) was a German physician.

File: DPAG-2005-RobertKoch. jpg | German postage stamp Commemorating centenary of Robert Koch's Nobel Prize, 2005

Geburtstag von Robert Koch -. JPG | East German coin commemorating 125th anniversary of Koch's birth, 1968

* The German Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, which adapted at least the holiness of Robert ’ s Grail into the framework of Chrétien ’ s story.

In practice sessions before the trip, Kennedy had run through a number of sentences, even paragraphs, to recite in German ; in these sessions, he was helped by Margaret Plischke, a translator working for the US State Department ; by Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's counsel and habitual speechwriter ; and by an interpreter, Robert Lochner, who had grown up in Berlin.

* 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher ( b. 1842 )

* 1892 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal ( d. 1945 )

* 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer ( d. 1856 )

* 1954 – Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect

Justinian was portrayed by Orson Welles in the 1968 German film Kampf um Rom I, directed by Robert Siodmak.

Along with his followers, the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.