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June 1 in German History June 1, 1035 Death of St. Simeon. Simeon was born in Greece. He was educated in Constantinople. As a youth he lived and worked in the Holy Land. He lived for a number of years in monasteries in Bethlehem and in the Sinai preparing himself for the life of a hermit. He then moved to Trier (modern Germany, at that time the Holy Roman Empire a.k.a. the German Empire). In Trier there still stood (and stands yet today) the massive NorthGate of the defensive wall of the Romans, the Porta Nigra, from the period when Trier had been an important city in the Roman Empire. For the purpose of leading a life of total prayer and meditation, Simeon moved into a small area of the stone gate and had the area walled in with only a small opening through which food and drink could be passed. He lived in the darkness of his chamber in prayer from 1030 until his death in 1035 without seeing nor speaking to another human. He died on June 1, 1035. He was canonized later in 1035 by Pope Benedict IX. In 1041 the gate where Simeon had lived was converted into a church and a monastery was attached to it. Both were named after St. Simeon. Later under Napoleon the church structure was removed from its stone skeleton, the Roman gate, was revealed once again. The Porta Nigra stands today as the Roman gate of the 1st century with the buildings of the monastery attached. His feast day is celebrated on June 1 in the diocese of Trier. June 1, 1503 Birth of Wilhelm von Grumbach near
Würzburg. Grumbach envied the power and land of the Bishop
of Würzburg and at one point plundered Würzburg. June 1, 1780 Birth of Prussian General, Carl von Clausewitz near Magdeburg. His book Vom Kriege established the concept of "total war". He spoke of war as "eine Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln." June 1, 1867 Death of Karl von Staudt in Erlangen, Germany. Staudt was the mathematician who developed the theory of imaginary points, lines and planes. He taught at the Polytechnic School of Nürnberg and the University of Erlangen. He did research on the arithmetical properties of Bernoulli numbers and was co-developer of the "Von Staudt-Clausen theorem". June 1, 1899 Death of Klaus Groth in Kiel, Germany. Groth was a professor at the University of Kiel. He had grown up speaking Plattdeutsch and was moved to write poetry in his native dialect (Ditmarschen). He was inspired by the dialect poems of Robert Burns in Scotland and those of Johann Peter Hebel who wrote in Swabian dialect. Some of his poetry gained much wider recognition after Johannes Brahms set them to music. June 1, 1932 Franz von Papen is appointed chancellor in the Weimar Republic by president von Hindenburg. (Von Papen will later be responsible for arranging for Adolf Hitler to be appointed chancellor with the thought he will be able to control Hitler and his party and achieve his own political goals.) June 1, 1848 The Neue Rheinische Zeitung begins publication under the direction of Karl Marx. Friedrich Engels is the publisher. Other noted communists working with the paper are, Ernst Dronke, Georg Werth, Wilhelm Wolff and Ferdinand Wolff. Back to Today in German History Calendar |
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