* 1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German Nazi party leader ( b. 1895 )

Wilhelm Gustloff ( January 30, 1895-February 4, 1936 ) was the German leader of the NSDAP ( Nazi ) party in Switzerland ; he founded the Swiss branch of the party at Davos in 1932, which organized German citizens living in Switzerland.

* February 4 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi Party ( b. 1895 )

* January 30 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German-born Swiss Nazi party leader ( d. 1936 )

In a contrasting report, historian Richard Kurin speculated that the " theft " of the French Crown Jewels was in fact engineered by the revolutionary leader Georges Danton as part of a plan to bribe an opposing military commander, Duke Karl Wilhelm of Brunswick.

In the 2006 election, the People's Party were defeated and after much negotiations agreed to become part of a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Austria, with new Party Chairman Wilhelm Molterer as Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor under SPÖ leader Alfred Gusenbauer, who became Chancellor.

August Wilhelm ( later: von ) Schlegel ( September 8, 1767 – May 12, 1845 ) was a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism.

With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was a critical leader of German Romanticism.

In 1915 – 16 Wilhelm Schmidt, then the leader of the Vienna School of Ethnology, viewed totemism strictly according to the then-popular schemes of culture circles or kulturkreis ( today long abandoned ); because totemism was disseminated throughout the world, he thought of it as a single cultural complex in spite of local differences.

In the Soviet occupation zone the liberal leader was former DDP minister Wilhelm Külz.

David Frankfurter ( July 9, 1909 – July 19, 1982 ) was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland.

After World War II he became a leader of the SPD in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany and, fiercely opposed by chairman Kurt Schumacher, led his party into a merger with the Communist Party under Wilhelm Pieck.

Wilhelm Pieck, a leader of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ) party ( which was created by a forced merger of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) in the Soviet sector ), was elected first President of the German Democratic Republic.

In the evening of March 13, Jozef Tiso ( the Slovak leader ) and Ďurčanský met German leader Adolf Hitler, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Generals Walther von Brauchitsch and Wilhelm Keitel in Berlin.

Famous students at the historical Viadrina included the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, the philosopher Ulrich von Hutten, the musician Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the theologian and political leader Thomas Müntzer, and the poet Heinrich von Kleist.

During the Napoleonic Wars, when Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was killed in battle, his troops changed the colour of their uniforms to black, with a Totenkopf on their shakos in mourning their dead leader ( Other sources claim that the " Black Brunswickers " were so equipped while Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick lived, as a sign of revenge on the French.

* Count Robert Wilhelm De Geer was lantmarskalk, leader of the Noble estate.

* David Frankfurter-Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland

Wilhelm Jansen, co-founder of the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen, was one of the chief financial supporters of the Wandervogel and also a leader in it.

* LUDDENDORF, Erich Friedrich Wilhelm ( 1865 – 1937 ) General, Nazi Party and National Socialist Freedom Movement politician and leader of the Tannenbergbund.

Responding to pressure from the guards ' leader and coach, Captain Wilhelm Knauer ( Ed Lauter ), Crewe refuses.

The Old Lutheran and Neo-Lutheran movements spread to the United States with the Neo-Lutheran Wilhelm Loehe and the Old Lutheran free church leader Friedrich August Brünn both sending missionaies to newly arrived German immigrants in the Midwest and the immigration of groups like the Saxons, who settled in Missouri under Martin Stephan and C. F. W.

Jakob Wilhelm Hauer became the group's " leader and representative " by acclamation, and other members included the philosopher Ernst Bergmann ( 1881 – 1945 ), the racial ideologue Hans F. K. Günther, the writer Ernst Graf zu Reventlow, the historian Herman Wirth, Ludwig Fahrenkrog and Lothar Stengel-von Rutkowski.

Parks met Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson through Terry Melcher ( who was then producing The Byrds ).

Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene.

In 1997, bin al-Shibh met Mohamed Atta, the leader of the Hamburg cell, at a mosque.

As The Beatles were concluding their final two-week Hamburg engagement in late December 1962, portions of their performances were taped by Star-Club stage manager Adrian Barber ; the tapes were recorded by Ted " Kingsize " Taylor, the leader of KingsizeTaylor and The dominos at the club.

The Hamburg Masacre had established Tillman as a leader of the white supremacist of his community.

In the 2004 Hamburg elections the party under the new leader Mario Mettbach only reached 0. 4 % and did not qualify for seats.

For a while he was the leader of the communist movement in Bonn, and his autobiography, Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic, talks about organizing communist street gangs in Hamburg, which briefly put his life in danger.

In 1929 he was appointed leader of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra in Hamburg.

When Mohamed Atta and other members of the Hamburg cell arrived in Afghanistan, bin Laden was involved in selecting them for the plot, and assigning Atta to be the leader.

There, he met Mohamed Atta, the leader of the Hamburg cell, at a mosque.

In his book Das letzte Kapitel ( The last chapter ) published 1947, Kurt Detlev Möller described Kaufmann as a " good Gauleiter ", a " rebel against the leader ", and the " rescuer of Hamburg ", because of the capitulation without struggle of the city of Hamburg.

He recounts having to reassure the leader of another act who was established in Hamburg, who had cautioned Alan: " Listen, we've got a good thing going here in Hamburg.

* 1940 – Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded Red Army Faction ( d. 1977 )

pitching Triple Crown ( baseball ) | Triple Crown in 1940, key member of the 1948 World Series Championship team, the Indians all time leader in wins and stikeouts, and an MLB Hall of Fame r.

He was regarded as having a sound tactical knowledge of the game and being an inspirational leader, as he led the side into the finals in 1940 for the first time since 1926, when the side finished 3rd.

* 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.

* 1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

* 1872 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian political leader ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.

The coalition was re-formed under Archie Cameron in 1940, and continued until October 1941 despite the election of Arthur Fadden as leader after the 1940 Election.

* 1940 – Quentin L. Cook, American religious leader, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Infant, child, and maternity services were expanded, while the Official Food Policy Committee ( chaired by the deputy PM and Labour leader Clement Attlee ) approved grants of fuel and subsidised milk to mothers and to children under the age of five in June 1940.

* May 12 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian political leader ( d. 1940 )

Antonescu nevertheless rose to political prominence during the political crisis of 1940, and established the National Legionary State, an uneasy partnership with the Iron Guard's leader Horia Sima.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

During World War II, the German leader Adolf Hitler and the Italian leader Benito Mussolini met there to celebrate their Pact of Steel on 18 March 1940.

In 1940 when Archie Cameron resigned as Country Party leader he contested the leadership ballot against Sir Earle Page: the ballot was tied and Arthur Fadden was chosen as a compromise.

The platoon leader was 1st Lieutenant William T. Ryder, who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA from a B-18 Bomber.

Newspaper article from Pravda, 18 November 1940 depicting Molotov meeting German leader Adolf Hitler

The defeat of France in 1940 and the appointment of the Vichy régime's conservative leader, Philippe Pétain, undermined feminism, and France began a restructuring of society based on the " femme au foyer " or " women at home " imperative.

After November 1940, he had the idea of teaming up with his former colleague, Gaston Cusin, to identify and contact a number of potential Résistance " centers of influence ", but only during the summer of 1941 was he able to make the most critical contacts, including contact with Henry Frenay, leader of the movement not yet called Combat, but the National Liberation Movement.