* 1940 – The " Aufbau Ost " directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.

Bormann exploited the disaster at Stalingrad, and his daily access to Hitler, to persuade him to create a three-man junta representing the State, the Army, and the Party, represented respectively by Hans Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the OKW ( armed forces high command ), and Bormann, who controlled the Party and access to the Führer.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

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** Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi Generalfeldmarschall ( b. 1882 )

* August 8 – WWII: Wilhelm Keitel signs the " Aufbau Ost " directive, which eventually leads to the invasion of the Soviet Union.

* September 22 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal ( d. 1946 )

From an initial aerial victory over a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 on 5 April their tally rose dramatically and the squadron became the focus of Soviet propaganda, so much so that Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel decreed that any French pilot captured would be executed.

* Wilhelm Keitel — Generalfeldmarschall, head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.

As part of the reorganization of the military command structure following the Blomberg – Fritsch Affair in early 1938, it was declared that the service chiefs, namely OKW chief Wilhelm Keitel, Army commander Walter von Brauchitsch, Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring and Raeder were to have the same status as Cabinet ministers and as such, they all started to receive publicly the same pay as a Cabinet member and privately payments from Konto 5 slush fund.

The Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels wanted Raeder and the other high officials of the " grocery ring " like Wilhelm Keitel, Hermann Göring and Hans Lammers who used their positions to ignore rationing when grocery shopping to be punished in order to let the German people know that the elite were suffering like everyone else, but Hitler claimed if the German people learned of the luxurious lifestyles of the elite in the middle of a war that the effect would be fatal to morale.

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel ( 22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946 ) was a German field marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ).

When Keitel then heard a radio broadcast about the failed assassination attempt, Keitel, aware his brother Wilhelm had to have been present at the meeting with Hitler in the Wolf's Lair and could conceivably be hurt or dead, had Boehmer immediately found and arrested.

Wilhelm Keitel was somehow not injured or killed in the bomb blast, and also was the only one present at Wolf's Lair assassination not to suffer a perforated eardrum from the bomb blast.

The body of Wilhelm Keitel after being hanged

Wilhelm Keitel wrote his memoirs in the six weeks before he was hanged ; they have been published later in few editions, for example " The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938 – 1945 " edited by Walter Görlitz, ISBN 978-0-8154-1072-0.

* Gene Mueller, The Forgotten Field Marshal: Wilhelm Keitel.

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In the early 1900s, after the rediscovery of Mendel's work, the gaps in understanding between genetics and evolutionary Darwinism led to vigorous debate among biometricians, such as Walter Weldon and Karl Pearson, and Mendelians, such as Charles Davenport, William Bateson and Wilhelm Johannsen.

The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Karl Morgenstern in his university lectures, and later famously reprised by Wilhelm Dilthey, who legitimized it in 1870 and popularized it in 1905.

At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.

In late May 1932, with the resignation of Karl Buresch's Christian-Social government, Dollfuss, age 39 and with only one year's experience in the Federal government, was offered the office of Chancellor by President Wilhelm Miklas, also a member of the Christian-Social Party.

Critics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Karl von Baer and Wilhelm His, did not believe that living embryos reproduce the evolutionary process and produced embryo drawings of their own which emphasized the differences in early embryological development.

Ernst Haeckel, along with Karl von Baer and Wilhelm His, are primarily influential in forming the preliminary foundations of ‘ phylogenetic embryology ’ based on principles of evolution.

Albert ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis ) ( Dresden, 23 April 1828 – Schloss Sibyllenort ( Szczodre ), 19 June 1902 ) was a King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

* 1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist ( d. 1871 )

* In 1876, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer described the properties of some liver cells now called Kupffer cell.

The first definite impulse came from the lectures of Friedrich Karl von Savigny, the celebrated investigator of Roman law, who, as Wilhelm Grimm himself says in the preface to the Deutsche Grammatik ( German Grammar ), first taught him to realize what it meant to study any science.

The Deutsches biographisches Archiv records Wilhelm's name as " Grimm, Wilhelm Karl ".

The Allgemeine deutsche Biographie gives the names as " Grimm: Jakob ( Ludwig Karl )" and " Grimm: Wilhelm ( Karl )".

The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints also gives Wilhelm's name as " Grimm, Wilhelm Karl ".

* Kerameikos, Ergebnisse Der Ausgrabungen by Wilhelm Kraiker, Karl Kubler

His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger ( August 15, 1790-November 26, 1862 ; not to be confused with the Swedish writer Carl Wilhelm Böttiger ), was a historian and biographer of his father.

Karl Wilhelm Böttiger contributed the history of Saxony to Heeren and Ukert's Europäische Staatengeschichte, and his Allgemeine Geschichte für Schule und Haus ( Universal history for school and home ) and Deutsche Geschichte für Schule und Haus ( German history for school and home ) passed through many editions.

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

The people featured as cards in the set are: René Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Mary Wollstonecraft, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Sojourner Truth, Karl Marx, Sitting Bull, Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Michel Foucault, and Avram Noam Chomsky.

# Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel and / or August Wilhelm Schlegel

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

He was the father of the philosopher Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach and the mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ; and the grandfather of the painter Anselm Feuerbach.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (; 4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 ), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet.