Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876 in Cologne Germany and died on April 19, 1967 in Bad Honnef Germany. He was aged ninety one at his time of death. Adenauer lived in modern times. Adenauer was a German statesman and the first post war Chancellor of Germany. Adenauer attended many universities and got a wonderful education. Adenauer was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union. (CDU)
As the first Chancellor of Germany he led his country out of the ruins of World War II to an energetic and wealthy nation with close relationships with former enemies, like France and the United States. Adenauer worked hard to achieve democracy, stability, and to gain international respect from other countries. He opposed East Germany and made his nation a member of NATO and remained a firm ally with the United States and the West.
Konrad had a great life and he really helped his country after WWII. He also had a bunch of firsts like being the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union, and the first chancellor of West Germany. I really do not know how West Germany would have gotten back on their feet if it was not for Konrad Adenauer.
Arminius (Hermann)
Arminius was born around 17-18BC in Magna Germania and died in 21 AD in Germania. He was forty at his time of death. Arminius lived during the Roman Occupation. When Arminius was a boy he lived in Rome as a hostage, where he had received a military education, and obtained Roman citizenship as well as the status of petty noble before returning to Germania and driving the Romans out.
When Arminius returned to northern Germania in about 7-8 AD, the Roman Empire had founded safe rule just east of the Rhine River, and along the Lippe ...
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...was in Cologne in 1933. To avoid the Nazi threat her sister and she transferred from their order to a monastery in Echt which is in the Netherlands. She was not safe in the Netherlands because when the Nazis conquered Holland she and her sister were arrested.
On August 7, 1942 987 Jews were deported to Auschwitz and two days later on August 9 her sister and she were put in the gas chamber. Edith Stein was beatified as a martyr on 1 May 1987 in Cologne by Pope John Paul II and canonized by Pope John Paul II 11 years later on October 11 in 1998. The miracle which was the reason for the canonization happened in Boston, Massachusetts, when she cured a little girl that swallowed too much medicine. She is one of six saints that are the Patron Saints of Europe. Stein died for her faith and she has many monuments and schools in her name all around the world.
Augustus was born in Rome on September 23, 63 B.C. He was originally named Gaius Octavianus, but when his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, was murdered, he took his name. Augustus’ real father died when his son was only four. Augustus was adopted in Julius Caesar’s will and was left to be his heir at the age of eighteen. Caesar was very fond of his grand-nephew and he sent him to the College of Pontifices at the age of sixteen. When Caesar was assassinated, Augustus was in Illyria, where he was sent to serve. It was only when he returned to Italy that he learned he was his great-uncle’s heir.
On February 4, 1847, Adolph was born in Barmen, Prussia. His parents passed away only 15 years later. Finding necessity for a quick occupation, Adolph started an apprenticeship at the Henry Wenker Brewery. The ambitious young man paid for his apprenticeship by working at the brewery as a bookkeeper.
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In 1941, the Germans had their first round-up of Jews in Amsterdam. 5 months later, the Germans summonded 16-year-old Margot Frank to report for deportation. Otto Frank, however, had contact with Dutch friends, and were able to hide out in the attic of a house. The morning after Margot was summonded they left Amsterdam and went to the attic of the house called the Secret Annexe.
When was in power, he took thousands of anti-Nazis off to concentration camps, gave jobs to everyone who was a Nazi, and managed to make German people believe in him to take control over all Europe. He negated the concept of human equality and claimed racial superiority for the Germans. As the master or Aryan race, they were told, they had the right to dominate all nations they wanted.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau, Austria. It was located across the Inn River from Germany. At the time of his birth, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was one of the important empires in Europe. The Austrians dominated the empire. Hitler thought of himself as a German. He considered himself as good as any German born in Germany.
Anne Frank, born on June 12, 1929 was a teenage writer, who wrote everything about her experience during the Holocaust in her diary. She was from Frankfurt, but sudden moved to Amsterdam in February 1934 after Nazi’s seize of power, and their intentions for the Jews. Anne and her family was hidden in the Secret Annex, which was located behind a attic above a family owned business. The heroes that helped the Frank family was Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Jan Gies, and Miep Gies. They would risk their own lives helping the Franks. They finally got caught 2 years later in August 4, 1944 when an anonymous caller gave a tip to the Gestapo (German Secret State Police). Anne and her family was sent to concentration camps, which sadly herself, sister and mother died. Luckily her father Otto Frank survived and published her diary to share her
Just outside the boundaries of the Roman empire of the first and second centuries, beyond the Rhine River, and occupying the area of Central Europe of what is today Germany, lived the tribes of the Germanic people. In Germania, the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus gave an account of the lifestyles and organization of these peculiar barbarians. These descendants of modern Germans proved peculiar in that they adopted many qualities typical of barbaric cultures, yet they simultaneously practiced virtues more befitting of advanced civilizations, values more ethical than even the Roman empire of the time. The German warriors had a rigid code that defined how to live honorable lives and shameful acts to avoid committing, and the warriors also adhered to strict tradition in their relationship with their king or chief.
While Hitler was in control of Germany, he affected the world, in many different ways, some evil, but also many good. This was because he was an okay leader. He helped to improve Germany’s economy and military. He also added a lot of territory to the borders of Germany, and the majority of the people under his rule came together in national unity believing in Hitler. Many things that he did during his time of leadership were a great help for Germany and its citizens, and brought the country to the top.
Throughout the history of the world, there have been many great nations to rise and make an impact on the entire globe. One of the most well known of these nations is the country of Germany. In its history, Germany has been one of the most influential countries in all of Europe. This great nation holds many geographical locations of historical significance as well as beautiful scenery. History, for centuries, has held the German people in high regard for their militaristic capabilities and ingenuity. They have also been responsible for many technological developments and changes throughout the entire world. For these reasons, the country of Germany is unforgettable.
The first and most likely the greatest reason people stayed and thrived in the German Empire was because of its rapid industrialization. Trailing the rest of the world in industry and technology it was not until the mid-1800s that Germany finally started to industrialize, but it was not until the creation German Empire that there was full-fledged industrialization (SJSU). Part of the reason that allowed Germany to in...
age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of
Adolf enjoyed his history class taught by Leopold Potsch. Adolf loved hearing about the different battles and wars. One of his early historical heroes was Otto van Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire. Adolf's other interest in school was his art class. Adolf's father was very upset with him when Adolf told him he wasn't joining the civil service and instead he was going to become an artist.
Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Because of their Jewish faith, Anne Frank and her family fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933 to avoid persecution. After Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1942, the family spent two years living in a small hidden room in Amsterdam in order to elude capture by Nazi occupation forces. They were discovered in 1944 and arrested. Anne was sent to a concentration camp, where she died the following year. Her famous diary of the two years she spent in hiding was later found in the room where she and her family had lived. Anne’s father, Otto, had taken the family to Amsterdam, where he had established a small food products business. When Germany invaded The Netherlands in 1940, the Franks once again became subject to escalating anti-Semitic persecution. In 1941 Anne was required to transfer from a public school to a Jewish school. Secretly, Otto Frank prepared a hiding place by sealing off several rooms at the rear of his Amsterdam office building. A swinging bookcase hid the rooms Frank concealed.
Chancellor Merkel started life as Angela Kasner, on July 17th, 1954 in Hamburg. Her parents, Horst, a Lutheran pastor and Herlind, a teacher, raised Angela and her brother and sister in a small town north of Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic, what the rest of the world considered East Germany. This was the communist side of Germany, heavily aligned with the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until 1990. Young Angela grew up in Templin, taking part in the Free German Youth movement. She showed leadership skills while just a teenager, and became a district board representative and secretary of Agitprop. This was the agitation and propaganda arm of the youth movement. Angela went on to study physics at the University of Leipzig, and earned her doctorate in 1978. While there, she married physicist Ulrich Merkel, but they divorced in 1982. She worked as a chemist at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1990. When the wall separating Berlin fell, Angela’s life took a new course.