Eventually it was discovered that metallic zinc could be alloyed with copper to make brass ; a process known as speltering and by 1657 the German chemist Johann Glauber had recognised that calamine was " nothing else but unmeltable zinc " and that zinc was a " half ripe metal.

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.

Braun: " On the current conduction in metal sulphides ( title translated from German into English )", Ann.

After modifying the spelling slightly, " Mötley Crüe " was eventually selected as the band's name, with the stylistic decision suggested by Neil to add the two sets of metal umlauts supposedly inspired by the German beer Löwenbräu, which the members were drinking at the time.

* Factory – former factoryhall, German and international pop -, rock -, metal -, and indie-bands artists will be featured

Pope Clement VIII appears as one of dramatis personae in the album The Metal Opera ( 2000 ) by German heavy metal band Avantasia, where he plays vital role in the fantasy-styled plot.

* 1996: The German power metal band Grave Digger included a song called " The Bruce " on their album Tunes of War, a concept album about the Scottish struggles for independence from England.

* Scanner ( band ), a German speed metal band

On some large weapons, such as the German Zweihänder, a metal cover surrounded the ricasso, and a swordsman might grip it in one hand to wield the weapon more easily in close-quarter combat.

* Trinidad, a song by the German metal band Edguy appearing on the album Rocket Ride

* Warrant ( German band ), a German speed metal band that formed in 1983

By 1886, the German Gustav Bloem of Düsseldorf, Germany had obtained a U. S. patent for hemispherical cavity metal detonators to concentrate the effect of the explosion in an axial direction.

Seel states that the Nazi guards then stripped the clothes of his lover, placed a metal bucket over his head, and released trained German Shepherd dogs on him, which mauled him to death.

The German power metal band Blind Guardian have written two songs dedicated to the Wheel of Time series as part of their 2010 album At the Edge of Time: " Ride Into Obsession " and " Wheel of Time ".

It is most commonly known as pitchblende ( from pitch, because of its black color, and blende, a term used by German miners to denote minerals whose density suggested metal content, but whose exploitation was, at the time they were named, either impossible or not economically feasible ).

The word hornblende is derived from the German horn and blenden, to ' deceive ' in allusion to its similarity in appearance to metal bearing ore minerals.

* Domain ( band ), a German heavy metal band

The original German guillotines resembled the French Berger 1872 model, but they eventually evolved into more specialised machines largely built of metal with a much heavier blade enabling shorter uprights to be used.

* Elric, his homeland of Melniboné, and his sword Stormbringer are featured in German heavy metal band Blind Guardian's song " Fast to Madness " from their " Follow the Blind " album ( 1989 ).

* Rammstein, a German metal band

* The German metal band Grave Digger released Tunes of War in 1997, a concept album about the history of Scotland.

* The song ' Unter der Eiche ' ( Under the oak ) of German folk metal band Equilibrium ( band ) describes a yearly ceremony.

* ASP ( band ), a German Industrial / Gothic Rock band from Frankfurt am Main

In 1974, German electronic music band Kraftwerk released the 22-minute song " Autobahn ," which takes up the entire first side of that LP.

* FSK ( band ), a German band

* The German hip-hop band Freundeskreis quoted from his poem " An Anna Blume " in their hit single " ANNA ".

* " Das Model " ( spelling on album: " Das Modell "; English version title: " The Model "), a song by the German band Kraftwerk.

Later covered by German band Rammstein

* Tokio Hotel, German Rock band, originated here

In 1987 the West German band Modern Trouble released a single titled Fly to Moscow that celebrates " modern rebel Mr. Rust, he showed the world Moscow or bust " and encouraging everyone to " fly to Moscow and land there if you dare ".

* Placebo Effect ( band ), German dark electro band

*" Paul " ( song ), by the German punk band Die Ärzte

In 2009, Long Distance Calling, a German post-rock band, released a song named " I Know you Stanley Milgram "

He is distressed at the loss of his brothers, but does not feel it is fair to go home, asking Miller to tell his mother " when you found me I was here, I was with the only brothers I have left ," looking at the small band whose duty it was to defend a bridge and destroy an approaching German mechanized unit.

* In 1975, the German Krautrock band Popol Vuh released the album Das Hohelied Salomos.

With the latter two albums, the band sung the lyrics in their native German.

The character Uli Kunkel was in the German electronic band Autobahn, a homage to the 1970s band Kraftwerk.

Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

* 1985 – Gerrit van Look, German rugby player and coach

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

* 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer ( d. 1827 )

* 1971 – Paul van Dyk, German DJ

A physically imposing, deliberative, and reticent man, Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his rapid transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding " van der " and his mother's surname " Rohe ", using the Dutch " van der ", rather than the German form " von " which was legally restricted to those of genuine aristocratic lineage.

A memorial to the Spartacus League | Spartacist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, commissioned by Eduard Fuchs, president of the German Communist Party in Germany designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, built by Wilhelm Pieck, and inaugurated on 13 June 1926, later destroyed by the Nazis

It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden ( Leyden ) in 1745 – 1746.

* ( German ), reprinted in English translation as " The notion of ' definite ' and the independence of the axiom of choice ", van Heijenoort 1976, pp. 284 – 289.

* ( German ), reprinted in English translation as " Proof that every set can be well-ordered ", van Heijenoort 1976, pp. 139 – 141.

* ( German ), reprinted in English translation as " A new proof of the possibility of a well-ordering ", van Heijenoort 1976, pp. 183 – 198.

In his final despatch of May 1919, General Jacob van Deventer placed the German forces at the commencement of 1916 at 2, 700 whites and 12, 000 blacks.

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius ( May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969 ) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

** Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands ( d. 2002 )

* April 5 – Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer

* April 19 – German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling fraudulent paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh.

* March 27 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect ( d. 1969 )

* March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer ( b. 1770 )

* December 15 or December 16 ( baptized December 17 ) – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer

* December 31 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician ( b. 1540 )

* January 28 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician ( d. 1610 )

* October 6 – Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands ( b. 1926 )

* March – Johann van Beethoven, German musician and father of Ludwig van Beethoven ( d. 1792 )