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April 30 in German History April 30 Walpurgis Night, or Witches' Sabbath--a legendary event on the Brocken Mountain in the Harz chain, made famous in Goethe's Faust. April 30, 1790 Death of Samuel Heinicke in Leipzig,
Germany. Heinicke became interested in the problems of the
deaf after reading Surdus loquens, a book in which it
was described how a Swiss physician had succeed in teaching
deaf persons to speak. In 1778 he opened a school for the
deaf. He developed the system of teaching lip-reading as
opposed to signs, since he felt it was best for the deaf to
understand language as normally used in society at large. April 30, 1803 Birth of Albrecht Theodor Graf von Roon in Pleushagen, Germany (now in Poland). Von Roon became the minister of war in 1859 and reorganized the Prussian army. His system led to the victory over Austria in the Seven Weeks' War and over France in the Franco-Prussian War. April 30, 1812 Birth of Kaspar Hauser, location unknown. In 1828 a confused young man (Hauser) was brought to the authorities in Nürnberg. He had in his possession a letter stating his date of birth and the indication that his father had died. His situation evoked much interest and speculation as to his origins. His case led to a poem about him by Paul Verlaine, novels by Jacob Wassermann, Sophie Hoechstetter and Otto Flake, a play by Erich Ebermayer and a film by Werner Herzog. April 30, 1857 Birth of Eugen Bleuler in Zollikon, Switzerland. Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist, introduced the term "schizophrenia" into the vocabulary of psychiatry (1908). He also introduced the concept of "autism". He and his one-time assistant, Carl Jung, worked for a time with Sigmund Freud. April 30, 1869 Birth of Hans Poelzig in Berlin, Germany. Poelzig, an architect is most noted for his Grosses Schauspielhaus of 1919 in Berlin. He also built the I. G. Farben building in Frankfurt am Main. April 30, 1870 Birth of Franz Lehar in Komarom, Hungary April 30, 1893 Birth of Joachim von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister in the Nazi regime, in Wesel, Germany. He met Hitler and joined the Nazi Party in 1932. In 1935 he negotiated the agreement with Great Britain which allowed the building of a German navy (disallowed by the Versailles Treaty). In 1939 he negotiated the nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union. He was tried by the Nürnberg court after the war, found guilty of war crimes and hanged. While in prison he wrote his memoirs, Zwischen London und Moskau. April 30, 1899 Death of Ludwig Büchner in Darmstadt, Germany. Ludwig Büchner was the younger brother of the dramatist, Georg Büchner. He was a physician in Darmstadt, but achieved his position in history through his atheistic and materialistic writings. In his Kraft und Stoff (1855) he denied God, creation by a divine being, and free will. He was convinced that humans are completely material beings. Other publications by Büchner include, Natur und Geist (1857) and Die Stellung des Menschen in der Natur (1869). April 30, 1911 Birth of Luisa Rinser in Pitzling, Germany April 30, 1945 Eve Braun (Mrs. Hitler) commits suicide by taking poison. April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide by gunshot. April 30, 1945 Joseph Goebbels as directed by Hitler's will becomes the German Chancellor. Back to Today in German History Calendar |
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