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July 31 in German History July 31, 1527 Birth of Maximilian II. in Vienna, Austria. Maximilian became Holy Roman Emperor in 1546. He tried to instill tolerance between Catholics and the new Protestants. July 31, 1800 The chemist, Friedrich Woehler was born in
Eschersheim, Germany on July 31, 1800. It was Woehler who
discovered how to synthesize urea from an inorganic compound
(ammonium cyanate). It was at about the same time (1828) that
he developed a method for the preparation of metallic
aluminum. Woehler's method was later used in industry. At
that time Woehler was a teacher at the technical school in
Berlin. Later he took a position at the technical school in
Kassel. It was from that position that he took up his
collaboration with Justus von Liebig, who taught at the
University of Giessen at that time. From their investigation
of benzaldehyde there grew the theory of radicals. In 1836
Woehler accepted a professorship at the University of
Göttingen. July 31, 1883 Birth of Erich Heckel in Döbeln, Germany. Heckel was an artist who was one of the founders of the Expressionist artists' group, Die Brücke. July 31, 1884 Karl Friedrich Goerdeler was born in Schneidenmuehl, Germany. Goerdeler was one of the leaders in the resistance movement against Hitler. The culmination of the efforts was the attempted assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944. It is likely that if the attempt had succeeded, Goerdeler would have become the chancellor of a new government. The attempt failed, however, and Goerdeler went into hiding. He was found and arrested on August 12, sent to prison and hanged on February 2, 1945. July 31, 1886 Death of the composer, Franz Liszt, in Bayreuth, Germany. A Hungarian by birth, Liszt spent relatively little of his life in Hungary. The majority of his life was spent in Austria, France, Germany and Italy. He was taken to Vienna to study music at age 10. There he studied with Karl Czerny and Antonio Salieri. After his Paris years he settled for several years in Weimar, Germany (1848-1861). In terms of composition, these were his most productive years. After Weimar he lived for a number of years in Rome. His last years were spend moving between Budapest, Rome and Weimar. His daughter, Cosima, was maried to the conductor Hans von Bülow and later to Richard Wagner. Liszt died while at the Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany in 1886. July 31, 1932 The new elections in Weimar Germany yield 37.4 percent of the vote for the National Socialist (Nazi) party. The Conference of Catholic Bishops' conference in Fulda would repeat the ban of the German church on membership in the Nazi party. (The party has, by this time, a private army of 400,000.) July 31, 1935 Death of Gustav Lindenthal in Metuchen, N. J. (born in Brünn, Austria). After an early career as a civil engineer in Austria and Switzerland Brünn immigrated to the United States in 1871. In the U. S. he continued his work as a civil engineer. In 1890 he became commissioner of bridges for New York City. He was a consulting engineer for the Hell Gate Railway bridge and designed the Queensboro Bridge. July 31, 1941 Hermann Göring instructs Reinhard Heydrich to carry out the extermination of the Jewish people. July 31, 1980 Death of the physicist, Ernst Pascual Jordan in Hannover, Germany. Jordan was a professor of physics at the Universities of Rostock, Berlin, and Hamburg. He was one of the early contributors to quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. July 31, 2005 Death of Wim Duisenberg, the first president of the European Central Bank. Duisenberg served his term (1998 – 2003) as first president of the bank at its headquarters in Frankfurt a/M. Back to Today in German History Calendar |
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