* 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.

In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project.

In late 1933, the Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick wanted to integrate all the police forces of the German states under his control.

In this, he ran into conflict with Heinrich Himmler, who was police chief of the second most powerful German state, Bavaria.

Also on that date, Hitler appointed Himmler chief of all German police outside Prussia.

On 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of all German police and decreed the unification of all police forces.

However Himmler, who had been appointed Chef der Deutschen Polizei ( Chief of German Police ) by Hitler, controlled the SS, the Gestapo, the Orpo ( uniformed police ) and all investigation units.

From 1943 forward, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo ( Secret State Police ).

Along with Interior Minister Frick, they hoped to create a unified German police force.

Also on that date, Hitler appointed Himmler chief of all German police outside Prussia.

Frick acquiesced, and on 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of German Police and decreed the unification of all police forces.

The Nazi German government subsequently announced it would recognize the independence of a neutral Albania and set about organizing a new government, police and armed forces.

The Bosnian-Serb Duško Tadić was arrested by German police in Munich in 1994 for his alleged actions in the Prijedor region in Bosnia-Herzegovina ( especially his actions in the Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm detention camps ).

He did not have authority over the 400, 000 regular German Army forces stationed in Norway which were the command of General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, but he did command a personal force of around 6, 000 men, of whom 800 were part of the secret police.

In the aftermath of the failed coup in Bucharest, the Foreign Office assembled evidence that the SD had backed the coup, which led to Ribbentrop sharply restricting the powers of the SD police attachés, who since October 1939 had operated largely independently of the German embassies at which they had been stationed.

In October 1962, a scandal erupted when police arrested five Der Spiegel journalists, charging them with high treason for publishing a memo detailing weaknesses in the West German armed forces.

Luxembourgish police resisted the German troops, however, to little avail ; the capital city was occupied before noon.

Following the occupation of Luxembourg by Germany on the 10 May 1940, recruitment for the Company of Volunteers continued until the 4 December 1940 when they were moved to Weimar in Germany to be trained as German police.

* 1944 – Christian Wirth, German police and SS officer ( b. 1885 )

Names of those Masurs supporting Polish side were published in German newspapers, and their photos presented in German shops ; afterwards a regular hunts were organised after them by German militias which terrorized Polish population At least 3, 000 Warmian and Masurian activists who were engaged for Polish side had to flee the region out of fear of their lives At the same time German police engaged in active surveillance of Polish minority and attacks against Polish activists Before the plebiscite Poles started to flee the region to escape the German harassment and terror

Of the two references, General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, the German military attaché in London, commented that Ribbentrop had been a brave soldier in World War I, while the wife of the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Elisabetta Cerruti, called Ribbentrop " one of the most diverting of the Nazis ".

This was especially the case as decrypts showed the British military attaché to Poland arguing that Britain could not save Poland in the event of a German attack, and only Soviet support offered the prospect of Poland holding out.

Strauss was finally forced to admit that he had phoned the German military attaché in Madrid and urged him to arrest Ahlers.

The date of 20 June had been given to Sorge by the deputy military attaché, Lieutenant-Colonel Erwin Scholl, at the German embassy in Tokyo.

Prior to the German attack on the Soviet Union, he sent information about German troop transfers from other fronts for Operation Barbarossa through a Soviet military attaché in Vichy France.

* Colonel Alfred von Schlieffen serves as the German military attaché to the U. S.

A German military attaché in Helsinki, General Arniké, handed it over in Moscow in September 1939.

However she was of Alsatian descent and spoke German fluently. She was hired as a cleaning woman in the office of the German military attaché, Schwartzkoppen.

They concluded that the informant of the German military attaché was a French officer, and furthermore, from the tone and diverse informations in the " bordereau ", that he probably was an officer in the General Staff.

After Georgia ’ s declaration of independence in 1918, he became an attaché on Georgia ’ s embassy in Berlin, responsible for repatriation of Georgian World War I prisoners and placing Georgian students in German universities.

In 1876 he was appointed attaché to the German embassy in Paris, attended the Berlin Congress as a secretary and became second secretary to the embassy in 1880.

Afterwards, he was sent to Berlin as a military attaché, where he grew to admire the German military culture, and strengthened the military ties between Germany and the Ottoman Empire, inviting German officers to reform the Ottoman Army.

My home in Stockholm was turned into something like an information and assistance office, and I was excellently supported by Dr. Paul Grassmann, press attaché in the German embassy in Stockholm.

He approached Ludwig Moyzisch, an attaché at the German Embassy in Ankara, indicating that he wanted £ 20, 000 for fifty-six documents he had initially photographed.

Falkenhausen was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the German Army in 1897 and served as a military attaché in Japan prior to the First World War.

A ceremony is held at the gravesite every year on Volkstrauertag in November, the German equivalent of Memorial Day, at which the Naval attaché of the German embassy in Washington, DC, lays a wreath with a ribbon in the colors of the German flag in commemoration of all those buried at this gravesite.

The Norwegian position was soon attacked by a small detachment of German troops, led by Eberhard Spiller, the air attaché for the German Embassy, who were racing north in an attempt to capture King Haakon VII.

Military attaché Robert M. Losey was killed during a German bombardment of Dombås while assisting with the evacuation of U. S. embassy personnel and others to Sweden.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

* 1876 – Erich Raeder, German naval commander ( d. 1960 )

He ordered immediate reinforcement of the vital heights of Alam Halfa, just behind his own lines, expecting the German commander, Erwin Rommel, to attack with the heights as his objective, something that Rommel soon did.

The OKW believed it too risky to allow German Corps and Army Groups to be operated and commanded independently by one field commander.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

During his life Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy ( Berlin ), American Academy, Mark Twain ( U. S. A ) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes film festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungary Association and President of the Jazz Academy and of the Academy of the Disc.

* 1883 – Alfred Saalwächter, German U-boat commander ( d. 1945 )

Karl Dönitz (; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980 ) was a German naval commander during World War II.

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Voroshilov was made commander of the short-lived Northwestern Direction, controlling several fronts.

Working alongside military commander Andrei Zhdanov as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerable personal bravery, prancing around in defiance of heavy shelling at Ivanovskoye ; at one point he rallied retreating troops and personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol.

* 1913 – Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander

He participated mainly in German politics, both as a representative of his father and the commander of the Polish troops.

* 1887 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander ( d. 1973 )

Among these were the killing of CEO of MTU Aero Engines, a German engineering company, Ernst Zimmermann ; another bombing at the US Air Force's Rhein-Main Air Base ( near Frankfurt ), which targeted the base commander and killed two bystanders ; the car bomb attack that killed Siemens executive Karl-Heinz Beckurts and his driver ; and the shooting of Gerold von Braunmühl, a leading official at Germany's foreign ministry.

San Marino's hope to escape further involvement was shattered on 27 July 1944 when Major Gunther, commander of the German forces in Forlì, delivered a letter from German headquarters in Ferrara to San Marino's government declaring that the country's sovereignty could not be respected if, in view of military requirements, the necessity of transit of troops and vehicles arose.

* 1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno.

Captain John H. Miller, the company commander of Charlie Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion, survives the initial landing and assembles a group of soldiers to penetrate the German defenses, leading to a breakout from the beach.

A skillful and remarkably successful guerrilla campaign waged by the German commander Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck kept the war in Tanganyika going for the entire length of the First World War.

On January 31, 1943 the Sixth Army's commander, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered, and on February 2, with the elimination of straggling German troops, the Battle of Stalingrad was over.

The John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | Duke of Marlborough was the commander of the English, Dutch and German forces.

* August 6 – Peter Strasser, German naval officer and airship commander ( b. 1876 )

* July 3 – Lothar von Trotha, German military commander ( d. 1920 )

* June 3 – Walther Wever, German general and Luftwaffe commander ( b. 1887 )